Amanuensis Monday is a genealogy blogging theme. It was started by John Newmark who writes the TransylvanianDutch blog.
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 Nuncupative Will of Mary A. Copeland Nicholson.1
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State of South Carolina} Court of
County of Chesterfield} Probate
In the matter of the Estate}
of } Petition
Mary A. Nicholson, Deceased }
The petition of James J. Nicholson
1. That Mary A. Nicholson a citizen of the county and State aforesaid and domiciled therein died on the ninetieth day of February A. D. 1890 leaving the following children as her heirs at law and distributes to wit: Your petitioner – James J. Nicholson, William Wesley Nicholson, Mary Ellen Gulledge, the wife of Guilford Gulledge and Eliza Allen the wife of William Dorsey Allen.
2. That the said Mary A. Nicholson, on the twelfth (12th) day of February A. D. 1890, in and during her last sickness, and at and in the house where she (insert then) reside and afterwards died upon the date before mentioned made a Nuncupative Will and at (insert that) time called upon Elizabeth E. Thurman, William D.
3. That the said testatrix Mary A. Nicholson did then on the 12th day of February A.D. 1890, in her last sickness, and at her house where she died just seven days afterwards and in the presence of the aforesaid witnesses declared her last will and testament to be as follows to wit:
First, That it was her will that all of her just debts and funeral expenses should be paid.
Second, That it was her will that all the rest, remainder and residue of her personal property after payment of her debts and funeral expenses should be equally divided between her two sons James J. Nicholson and William Wesley Nicholson
Third, That she declares that she did not attempt to make any disposition of her real estate as her children would be entitled to it under her Mothers Will.
Fourth, That she declares it to be her will that her two sons should receive her property to the exclusion of her two daughters on the grounds that they had already receive more that her two Sons would get by her will.
Wherefore your petitioner prays that Said witnesses be Sworn and the aforesaid Will admitted to probate as a nuncupative will and for such other and further relief as to this Honorable Court shall seem meet
February 26th 1890 Hough & Kennedy
Attorney for Petitioner
Mary A. Copeland was the daughter of John Copeland, Jr. and his wife Nancy (LNU), Nancy died sometime after Nov 1870 and left a WILL (Probate Folder #1444).
Mary A. Copeland married Archie Nicholson shortly after 1860. Their first child, a daughter, was born in 1862. Archie died on 30 July 1869 in Mt. Croghan, South Carolina.2 They had four children all named within the above Will.
Probate Folder #85 (Mary A. Nicholson) can be accessed and reviewed at FamilySearch.org. Access to FamilySearch is FREE but you do have to create an account (E-Mail address plus password).
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[1] "South Carolina Probate Records, Files and Loose Papers, 1732-1964," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-19383-29809-13?cc=1911928&wc=MPP5-FMS:190567401,190561002,190567402,190625801 : accessed 8 March 2015), Chesterfield > Probate Court, Estate records > 1865-1927 > Cases 0065-0087 > image 427 of 482; county courthouses, South Carolina, and South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia.
[2] Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database and digital images, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 8 August 2015); Memorial page for Archibald "Archie" Nicholson; (Unk. - August 1869); Find a Grave memorial # 123932872, Citing Gibson Family Cemetery; Ruby, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, USA.
