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 Guardianship of Mrs. Cora Brock.
Probate Folder #1161
Images 371-392
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State of South Carolina}
County of Chesterfield} In Court of Probate
Ex Parte, Cora Brock }
Petitioner} Petition
To:
Hon. J. M. Hough, Judge of Probate for the County of Chesterfield, State of South Carolina:-
The petition of Mrs. Cora Brock, respectfully presents:-
1. That she is a resident and citizen of Chesterfield County South Carolina.
2. That she is entitled to receive from the treasury Department, of the United States, Bureau of War Risk twenty eight and 75/100 dollars per months, insurance payments on the life of her husband, William [Samuel] Brock, deceased, and to an allotment of thirty five dollars per month for her and child.
3. That your petitioner is advised that guardianship is necessary in order to protect and preserve the interest and estate of your petitioner.
4. That J. A. Knight is a resident and citizen of Chesterfield County? South Carolina, and is a suitable and competent person to act as guardian of the interest and estate of your petitioner, who is a minor over the age of fourteen.
Mrs. Cora Brock
I Sarah Jane Lee, Mother the petitioner resides hereby join in the prayer thereof.
Sarah Jane X her mark Lee
J. A. Knight
Witness
State of South Carolina}
County of Chesterfield} In Court of Probate
Ex Parte,
Mrs. Cora Brock, Minor
Petitioner Order
Upon hearing the petition of Mrs. Cora Brock, for the appointment of a guardian of the estate if [of] the petitioner, who is a minor over the age of fourteen years, and with the consent of Sarah Jane Lee, her mother and with whom she resides it is:
ORDERED, that J. A. Knight, resident of Chesterfield County, South Carolina, be and is hereby appointed guardian of the estate of the petitioner upon entering into a bond with sufficient surety in the penal sum of two thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties and guardianship and thereupon letters of guardianship be duly issued.
Chesterfield? S. C.
July 18th, 1919
Judge of probate for Chesterfield
County, South Carolina
William Samuel Brock and Cora Lee were married when he registered for the draft on 5 June 1917. Their only child, Clarence William Brock was born 22 October 1918. Three weeks later his father William Samuel would succumb to pneumonia on 10 November 1918 while fighting in France just a day before the armistice was signed. William Thomas death in France triggered the probate action seen here. His body was returned home and William is buried in the Brock Cemetery.
Between 1930 and 1940, Cora Lee Brock married Lonnie Lee Parks. They had one child – Bernard Harris Parks.
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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-N3S6-LH?cc=1911928&wc=MPP5-BZ9%3A190567401%2C190561002%2C190567402%2C192067501 : 21 May 2014), Chesterfield > Probate Court, Estate records > 1865-1927 > image 371 of 1267; county courthouses, South Carolina, and South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia.
