Request for Final Discharge of Guardianship~Martha Watson

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:
Martha Watson ¹
Probate Folder #434
Images 1039 to 1048

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939L-JZSF-S8?i=1038&wc=MPP1-PTL%3A190567401%2C190561002%2C190567402%2C190970801&cc=1911928




Transcription:
State of South Carolina}
Chesterfield County}
To W. J. Hanna Judge of Probate
The petition of L. A. Watson Respectfully shows that he is the legally appointed Guardian of Martha Watson. That the said Martha Watson is now of the age of twenty one years that is to say about the age of Twenty two years. That he has fully settled the Estate of the said Martha Watson and is desirous of obtaining a final discharge for which purpose he files herewith on account of his actings and doings as said Guardian marked “Exhibit “A” and respectfully ask that the same may be taken as part of this Petition and referred to when necessary. Whereupon your Petitioner prays that an order of final discharge may be granted him and your Petitioner will ever pray +c.
                                                                    L. A. Watson

I have not determined who the parents of this Martha Watson are. For a  while I thought she was the daughter of Michael and Jane Watson but now I am not so sure.




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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-JZSX-DW?cc=1911928&wc=MPP1-PTL%3A190567401%2C190561002%2C190567402%2C190970801 : 21 May 2014), Chesterfield > Probate Court, Estate records > 1865-1927 > Cases 0384-0469 > image 1044 of 1665; county courthouses, South Carolina, and South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia.

It’s Family Time~Huriah Richmond "Huey" Brock Family

Huriah Richmond "Huey" Brock was born on 20 Apr 1849 in Pike County, Mississippi. He was the son of Valentine “Vol” Brock and his wife, Bethany Thaney Ginn. He died on 10 Nov 1874 at the age of 25 in Pike County, Mississippi.

Huriah Richmond "Huey" Brock and Sophronia L. Holmes were married on 16 Dec 1869.

Sophronia L. Holmes, daughter of William Stovall Holmes and Jane Perkins Foil, was born on 23 Jul 1852 in Tylertown, Walthall County, Mississippi. She died in 1932 at the age of 80. She was buried in Magnolia, MS Cemetery.

Huriah Richmond Brock and Sophronia L. Holmes had the following children:

i. William Valentine Brock, born 15 Apr 1871, Pike County, Mississippi; married Samantha A. Smith, 8 Nov 1888, Pike County, Mississippi; married (2) Ida Lydia Conerly, 21 Aug 1902, Pike County, Mississippi; died 15 Jul 1943, Akron, Ohio.
ii. Ida A. Brock was born on 24 Dec 1872 in Pike County, Mississippi. She died Died young on 1 Jul 1893 at the age of 20 in Pike County, Mississippi.
iii. Janie Brock, born 24 Aug 1874, Pike County, Mississippi; married Francis Marion Burch, 17 Jan 1890, Amite County, MS; died 28 Jun 1950.

I have been unsuccessful, so, far, in determining why Huriah Richmond "Huey" Brock died at such a young age. 

Huriah Richmond "Huey" Brock  is my 3rd cousin 3 times removed.





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1. The Ginns + their Kin by Marie Luter Upton 1963, 65.
2. 1860 U. S. Census, Pike County, Mississippi, population schedule, Pike County, Mississippi, Page 478(penciled), Line 15, Dwelling 1095, Family 1095, Household of Valentine BROCK; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 6 June 2015); citing National Archives Microfilm M653 Roll 589.
3. 1870 U. S. Census, Pike County, Mississippi, population schedule, Township 1 Range 9, Pike, Mississippi, Page: 121B (stamped); Line 33, Dwelling 32, Family 32, Household of Richmond H. BROCK; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 6 June 2015); citing National Archives Microfilm M593 Roll 745.
4. William Magee + Mary Margaret James and their descendants-William Magee Committee- Franklinton, LA, 137.
5. Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database and digital images, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 6 June 2014); Memorial page for Huriah Richmond Brock; (20 April 1849–10 November 1874); Find a Grave memorial # 93130367, Citing Brock Cemetery; Walthall County, Mississippi, USA.