Each week, on Sunday, I will select an Estate Folder 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 by 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:Margaret ‘Maggie’ Hurst Watson 1
Probate Folder #983
Images 072 to 076
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939L-N39W-QQ?i=71&wc=MPP5-N38%3A190567401%2C190561002%2C190567402%2C191815201&cc=1911928
On 24 May 1910, Margaret “Maggie” Hurst Watson passed away. Her husband, Thomas Henry Watson had passed away almost 6 years earlier on 16 September 1904. Their deaths left nine surviving adult sons and daughters.
Her estate file (#983) consists of 4 images all related to the administrative paperwork related to the probate process.
Image 75: Letters of Administration granted to M. S. Watson on 6 August 1910. [Mims Sullivan Watson]
Image 73: Administrative Bond. Surety of $1200.00 dollars guaranteed by:
H. D. Watson [Hector Dudley Watson]
M. S. Watson [Mims Sullivan Watson]
J. G. Hursey [John Gregory Hursey]
Image 74; Affirmation that deceased died without a will made by Mims Sullivan Watson on 2 May 1911
Image 72: Shown below
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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-N39W-QQ?cc=1911928&wc=MPP5-N38%3A190567401%2C190561002%2C190567402%2C191815201 : 21 May 2014), Chesterfield > Probate Court, Estate records > 1865-1927 > Cases 0980-1052 > image 72 of 1643; county courthouses, South Carolina, and South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia.
Great idea to highlight those estate folders weekly.
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