Chesterfield County SC Estates~Estate Folder #381~Mary (Nicholson) Pitts

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:
Mary Nicholson Pitts ¹
Probate Folder #381
Images 1360 to 1365

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939L-NQ9P-VK?i=1359&wc=MPPR-PTP%3A190567401%2C190561002%2C190567402%2C190904401&cc=1911928

Mary Pitts, widow of John B. Pitts, passed away sometime before 23 September 1883. Her husband, John, had died many years earlier. The exact date of John and Mary’s  death is lost to history unless someone in the descendancy of this couple has a Family Bible in their possession.

Mary wrote her Will on 7 February 1858 and it stood as written at that time. On 21 September 1883, Mary Smith, Margaret J. Robeson with William L. Robeson presented the Will of Mary Pitts to the Probate Court for disposition. (Image 1361). Until this record; the last record of Mary was the 1860 Chesterfield County, SC census. She could have died anytime between 1860 and September 1883.



Her personal and Real Estate was left to her two daughters Catherine and Flora Pitts.
I wrote about her Will back in December 2016 and it can be read here: 

https://carolinafamilyroots.blogspot.com/2016/12/amanuensis-mondaylast-will-and.html










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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-NQ9P-VK?cc=1911928&wc=MPPR-PTP%3A190567401%2C190561002%2C190567402%2C190904401 : 21 May 2014), Chesterfield > Probate Court, Estate records > 1865-1927 > Cases 0331-0383 > image 1360 of 1383; county courthouses, South Carolina, and South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia.