Amanuensis Monday~Summons to Sale Lands of John Ellis

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 a Summons to Sale Lands of John Ellis, 1872.¹


Transcription:
The State of South Carolina}
County of Chesterfield}
By Hugh Craig Judge of Probate
To Elisha Ellis Sr., Rebecca Ann Odom, Rachel Bone, Jacob Ellis, John J. Ellis, Wesley Ellis, Christian Kifsiah [Kissiah], Effy Ann Gainy, William Smothers and Elisha Ellis, Jr. legal heirs and representative of John Ellis Greetings:
 
You are hereby required to appear at the Court of probate, to be holden at Chesterfield Court House for Chesterfield County, on the 27^th day of December, A. D. 1872, to shew cause, if any you can. why the Real Estate of John Ellis deceased, Situate in Said County on Bear Creek, bounding lands of A. M. Tucker, Elisha Ellis, Sr., W. B. Davis and others and containing four hundred [400] acres more or lefs Should not be divided or Sold, allotting to the Said heirs at law the Share or Shares to which each one is entitled according to their respective legal rights.
Given under my hand and seal this 15^th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and seventy Two and in the 97^th year of American Independence.
s/Hugh Craig
Judge of Probate

There are two Probate Folder for John Ellis.

Probate Folder #285 can be accessed here:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-19383-35028-53?cc=1911928


Probate Folder #308 can be accessed here:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-19383-35897-54?cc=1911928

If you know the relationship of John Ellis to the individuals named within this document I would like to hear from you. 







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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-1-19383-35866-15?cc=1911928 : accessed 15 May 2016), Chesterfield > Probate Court, Estate records > 1865-1927 > Cases 0282-0330 > image 954 of 1448; county courthouses, South Carolina, and South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia.

Chesterfield County SC Estates~Estate Folder #297–Rosa Ann Thurman Gainey

 
This is a new series of posting, appearing every Sunday, on selected Estate Folders from the Estate files of Chesterfield County. 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 resources if you are looking for ancestors in Chesterfield County, South Carolina. 

Today we will be looking at the following Estate folders:
 
Folder #297
Rosa Ann Thurman Ganey¹
 
This estate folder begins at image #581 and ends with image #615. (images 581-615)  
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-19383-37089-10?cc=1911928
 
Rosa Ann Thurman Gainey died on 2 October 1883 leaving her 3 children and grandchildren; children of her daughter Susannah “Susie” Gainey deceased wife of  Capt. William B. Davis.
Rosa Ann’s husband James P. Gainey had died about September 1850 in Barbour County, Alabama. After the death of her husband, though pregnant with another child, Rosa Ann came back home to Chesterfield County, South Carolina where her daughter, Susannah was born on 10 May 1851.
Phillip James Hurst was named Executor of the Estate. He was the husband of Rosa Ann daughter Mary Ann Gainey.
 

Transcription:
State of South Carolina} Court of Probate
County of Chesterfield}
In the matter }       Petition for
of}                       letters
The estate of Rosana} of
Gainey deseased} Administration
The petition of Phillip J. Hurst respectfully shows to this court;
1. That Rosana Gainey a resident of the county and State aforesaid departed this life on or about the second day of October A.D. 1883, leaving a small personal and some real estate and letters of administration upon said personally is necessary in order that said estate may be settled.
2. That the intestate left as her heirs children and grandchildren to wit: Mary A. Hurst. A daughter of (inserted), the wife of your petitioner, Lewis J. Gainey, a son of residing somewhere in the state of Texas, Jane Hancock, a daughter, wife of R. F. M. Hancock and James Davis, William Davis, Minnie Davis and Lillian Davis who are grand children of the intestate and children of a daughter of intestate called Susanna the said Susanna having intermarried with William B. Davis, Junior and pre-deceased her mother several years.
Wherefore your petitioner prays that letters of administration upon said estate be granted him.
                                                                          P. J. Hurst

Rosa Ann Thurman and James P. Gainey had the following children:
 
i. Mary Ann Gainey, born 20 Jul 1843, Chesterfield, Chesterfield, South Carolina; married Phillip James Hurst, 1864; died 19 Mar 1908, Kingsland, Cleveland, Arkansas.
ii. Lewis J. Gainey, born 23 December 1846, Chesterfield County, South Carolina; married Nancy Jane Hurst; died 6 Nov. 1941, Chambersville, Collin, Texas..
iii. Nancy Jane Gainey, born 11 Apr 1849, Barbour County, Alabama; married Robert Fell Moore Hancock; died 3 Dec 1891, Ruby, Chesterfield County, South Carolina.
iv. Susannah Ann "Susie" Gainey, born 10 May 1851, Chesterfield County, South Carolina; married William Benjamin Davis, 31 Dec 1866, Chesterfield County, South Carolina; died 30 Jan 1874, Chesterfield County, South Carolina.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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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-1-19383-37089-10?cc=1911928 : accessed 02 Jun 2014), Chesterfield > Probate Court, Estate records > 1865-1927 > Cases 0282-0330 > image 581 of 1448. Images 581 through 615