His definition of Amanuensis is:
Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.
Today’s subject is the Chesterfield County, SC Probate Folder 686-Guardianship of the minor children if Almira Jane Smith Sellers. 1
Almira Jane Smith Sellers, wife of Franklin Dennis Sellers passed away leaving 6 surviving children of which four were minors. Guardianship of the children were just a mere formality of the Court as indicated by the minimal documents found within the estate folder naming the children's Father, Franklin Dennis Sellers, as their Guardian.
Application for Guardianship was made on 23 August 1902.
Transcription:
State of South Carolina}
Chesterfield County}
The undersigned respectively shows this Court
1. That they are minors over the age of fourteen and under the age of twenty one years of age and that they are entitled to a distributive share of their Mothers Estate.
2. That petitioners have no guardian and ask this court to appoint their father F. D. sellers as their guardian and will ever pray &c.
This Aug 23rd 1902.
G. C. Sellers
K. L. Sellers
B. T. Sellers
Myrtle Sellers
Guardianship Bond was posted and Guardianship granted to their father – Franklin Dennis Sellers.
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| Guardianship Bond |
In 1906, Franklin Dennis married Minnie Tucker and raised a second family of six children.
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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-N3KP-7?cc=1911928&wc=MPP5-3TT%3A190567401%2C190561002%2C190567402%2C191220701 : 21 May 2014), Chesterfield > Probate Court, Estate records > 1865-1927 > Cases 0638-0757 > image 735 of 1623; county courthouses, South Carolina, and South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia.
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