Chesterfield County SC~Estate Folder #357 – Change of Guardian-Gertrude Covington Perkins

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: ¹

Estate Folder #357
Images 604 thru 666

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939L-NQ9J-CC?i=603&wc=MPPR-PTP%3A190567401%2C190561002%2C190567402%2C190904401&cc=1911928

Gertrude Covington Perkins was the fourteenth (14) child of John Henry Perkins and his wife Nancy Jane Davis. John Henry died in 1885 when Gertrude was 8 years old. Her Mother, Nancy died in 1887 when Gertrude was just a mere child of 10.

Gertrude's older sister Laura Virginia Davis Thurman wife of Dr. Benjamin Hill Thurman was named as Guardian of her sister Gertrude Covington Perkins.

At age 17, Gertrude Covington Perkins left home and went to Darlington County with her future husband Clarence C. Medlin and they were married there by Rev. N. L. Swett in 1895.

Gertrude Covington Perkins 
The last which I have to chronicle was a runaway match.  Mr. Clarence Medlin and Miss Gertrude Perkins of Cheraw left town last night about dark and went to the residence of the Rev. N. L. Swett, in Marlboro, about four miles from town and were married . Some of the family, I Learn, opposed the match, but when two people make up their minds to get married their friends and relatives might just as well stand aside and allow them to go their own way. ²

Translation:
South Carolina}
Chesterfield County} In Probate Ct.    
To Thos. L. Hewitt Judge of Probate
The petitioner Gertrude C. Medlin nee Perkins - shows to the Court that she is seventeen years of age and has a personal estate of two Hundred and fifty dollars and her sister L. V. Thurman who has heretofore been her guardian desires to be relieved and petitioner desires that her husband Clarence C. Medlin be appointed in her place as guardian and she will ever pray +c.
Jany 26 1895                    S/Gertrude C. Medlin

I haven't figured out what happen to Gertrude after 1900 but by 1916 her husband was remarried and in 1910 her son Clifton is living with her sister Laura Virginia Thurman. .

Gertrude Covington Perkins Medlin is my 2nd cousin 3 times removed.









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[1] Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Probate Files & Loose papers, Gertrude Covington Perkins; digital images, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org: viewed 18 May 2018); Probate Folder #357
[2] Found by and provided to Charles Purvis by Helen Skipper. Hyperlink no longer active. [http://www.palmettoroots.org/marriagessc.html/]