Chesterfield County SC~Estate Folder #551 – William H. Gainey Estate

 

Each week, on Sunday, I will select an Estate Folders from the Estate files of Chesterfield County and discuss its contents. No known estates exist for the period before the Civil War. They were destroyed with the burning of the Courthouse. There are a few “Equity Records” in the State Archives. Do not overlook this valuable resource if you are looking for ancestors in Chesterfield County, South Carolina. 

Today we will be looking at the following Estate folder:

Folder #551, Image 1389
William H. Gainey ¹

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Estate Folder #551 shows that William H. Gainey died on or about 17 October 1866 in Chesterfield County, South Carolina. He left a wife and children surviving him along with a tract of land in Chesterfield County, South Carolina. The most significant document within the probate file is this request for letters of Administration containing the death date of William H. Gainey.


Transcription:
The State of South Carolina}
Chesterfield County}
To Hugh Craig, Esq. Judge of Probate.
The Petition of Mary H. Gainey
Sheweth that Wm. H. Gainey departed this life on or about the 17^th day of October A. D. 1866 leaving her surviving him as his widow and that he was seized and pofsefsed in his life time and at the time of his death of a certain tract of land lying and being in said county on the waters of Thompson Creek containing two hundred and fifty actress more or lefs, besides certain goods and chattels – to him belonging—
Your petitioner therefore prays for Letters of Administration of all and singular the goods and chattels of the said Wm. H. Gainey deceased.
Feby 3^rd 1871                                                      Mary H. X her mark Ganey
Witnefs
M. E. Craig

In addition to the probate record  there is also an Equity Court record related to the death of Lewis Gainey, the father of William H. Gainey.

[#12] Gainey, Lewis, Wm. H. Gainey & others vs. Charlotte Gainey - Bill for account and specific delivery of property 1846 ²

Sarah Gainey, wife of Jacob Gainey (married in Anson County, NC) died August 1835, leaving her husband and sister, Elizabeth; Her sister, Elisabeth, wife of Lewis Gainey, had a son, William H. Gainey. In 1836, after the death of his wife, Sarah, Jacob Gainey married Charlotte Jones. Jacob Gainey died 4 April 1845. On 1 December 1846, Charlotte Jones Gainey married Amos Lambeth. Charlotte Jones Gainey Lambeth had no children from either marriage. Deposition of James P. Gainey of Henry County, Alabama, states that he is the son of William H. Gainey and grandson of Lewis Gainey.






 
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[1] "South Carolina Probate Records, Files and Loose Papers, 1732-1964," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939L-NHPB-L?cc=1911928&wc=MPPB-C68%3A190567401%2C190561002%2C190567402%2C191054401 : 21 May 2014), Chesterfield > Probate Court, Estate records > 1865-1927 > image 1389 of 1550; county courthouses, South Carolina, and South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia.
[2] SOURCE: #12 Index and Genealogical Abstracts of the Chesterfield District Court of Common Pleas, Equity Side, 1823-1869, page 116 as recorded in "Cheraw/Chesterfield District Wills, 1750-1865 & Abstracts from the Court of Common Pleas 1823-1869, Published by James C. Pigg, Copyright 1995.