Chesterfield County SC~Estate Folder #1373 – John Dock Wallace

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 #1373
Image 1381
John Dock Wallace ¹

Will of John Dock Wallace ²

State of South Carolina,
Chesterfield Count,
I, J. D. Wallace, being of sound mind memory and understanding and being in expectation of immediate death do make, ordain, publish and declare this as and for my last will and testament.
1. I give and bequeath to my children, share and share alike, all my personal property.
2. I give, devise and bequeath unto my beloved wife Polly Jane (illegible) Wallace all my real estate for the term of her natural life or widowhood, and at her death or remarriage the same to be divided among my children who share and share alike.
3. I hereby appoint W. E. Courtney to act as guardian for my child that is now underage.
4. I hereby nominate, constitute and appoint L. L. Parker as executor of this my last will and testament, hereby revoking any former wills or instruments of a testamentary character by me made.
               In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 12th day of January March, A.D. 1915.
Alterations made before signing--   
                                                                         John Dock X (his mark) Wallace (Seal)
H. H. Funderburk
Illegible
R. L. McManus
S. H. Laney Signed sealed published and declared as and for the last will and testament of J. D. Wallace in the presence of us who in his presence and of each other and at his request signed our names as witnesses thereto this 16th day of March A. D. 1915.
H. H. Funderburk, M. D.
R. L. McManus, D.D.S.
S. H. Laney

John Dock Wallace was born 12 October 1854, a son of Andrew Jackson Wallace and Mary Ann Graves. He married Phallie Jane Plyler, daughter of Isom Plyler and Mary Funderburk in 1891. To this union were born six, maybe seven children.

John Dock Wallace was injured during a town melee/scuffle in Pageland, SC on 12 March 1915. He died in a Charlotte hospital on 19 March 1915.



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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-N3TX-X?cc=1911928&wc=MPP5-ZN5%3A190567401%2C190561002%2C190567402%2C192254901 : 21 May 2014), Chesterfield > Probate Court, Estate records > 1865-1927 > Cases 1315-1407 > image 1107 of 1626; county courthouses, South Carolina, and South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia.
[2]Will can be found at Image 1111- "South Carolina Probate Records, Files and Loose Papers, 1732-1964," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939L-N3T8-G?cc=1911928&wc=MPP5-ZN5%3A190567401%2C190561002%2C190567402%2C192254901 : 21 May 2014), Chesterfield > Probate Court, Estate records > 1865-1927 > Cases 1315-1407 > image 1111 of 1626; county courthouses, South Carolina, and South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia.