Columbia County Wills & Probate Records
Early Deeds and Will Abstracts
Pages 89 thru 154 Contain Will Abstracts
"Columbia County, Georgia, was created from Richmond, December 10th, 1790. Richmond was officially made a county February 5th, 1777,
having been previously organized as Parish of St. Paul in 1758.
Columbia is indeed important to genealogy researchers, Richmond was a migratory gateway from South Carolina.
Prior to and after 1790, Revolutionary war veterans were given land bounties in Georgia. Many such grants ultimately became
a part of Columbia County.
The records in this book were originally gathered by the late Mrs. Pearl Baker of Thomson, Georgia.
Mrs. Baker was efficient and did not overlook a detail.
Mrs. Mary Carter of Albany, Georgia, publisher of Georgia Pioneers, a quarterly genealogy magazine, contracted with Mrs. Baker
to use the material. It appeared in a series of more than four years.
Mrs. Carter and I agree that such information would serve a useful purpose if incorporated into one volume with an
index included for cross reference."
Joseph T. Maddox
Irwinton, Georgia
Mary Carter
Albany, Georgia
(Mr. Maddox and Ms. Carter are now deceased)
Transcriber's note: This booklet, at time of transcription, was located in the Washington Memorial Library, Macon, Georgia. There was no date anywhere in the book. The only date was a hand-written one of May 1, 1979. Possibly the date the book was presented to the library.
Suzanne Forte ([email protected]) January/Feb 2005
PAGES 89 THRU 154 - Will Abstracts
(Not only do these abstracts contain will information, but also dates and places of marriage in some cases)
Wills - "A" and "B" - Contains will abstracts for the following surnames: (There are many other surnames contained within the body of these abstracts, these are the surnames
of the will maker only)
Albritton, Adams, Aldridge, Alexander, Alford, Allen, Anderson, Appling, Avary, Ayres
Bacon, Bailey, Baldwin, Ballard, Baston, Bayless, Beale, Beall, Bealle, Beard, Beckham, Bell, Benefield, Benning, Benton, Berry, Blackstone,
Blair, Blanchard, Blunt, Bolton, Bond, Boswell, Bowdre, Boyd, Brantley, Briscoe, Brown, Bugg, Burch, Burnley, Burnside, Burnsides, Burroughs, Butler
Contains will abstracts for the following surnames: (There are many other surnames contained within the body of these abstracts, these are the surnames
of the will maker only)
Caldwell, Carr, Carrell, Cartledge, Casey, Chamblin, Chamberlain, Clanton, Clark, Clarke, Clayton, Cliett, Cobb, Cobbs, Cochran, Cole, Coleman, Collier, Collins, Colvard, Cooper, Cosby , Crabb, Crawford, Crump, Crute, Culbreath
Contains will abstracts for the following surnames: (There are many other surnames contained within the body of these abstracts, these are the surnames
of the will maker only)
Dagnell, Dannelly, Darby, Darsey, Davidson, Davis, Day, Denhams, Dent, Dillard, Doggett, Dooly, Dorsett, Dorsey, Doughtery, Dozier, Drane, DuBose, Dunivan, Dunn
Edes, Embree, Eubanks Evans
Contains will abstracts for the following surnames: (There are many other surnames contained within the body of these abstracts, these are the surnames
of the will maker only)
Fargerson, Fennell, Ferndon, Few, Fitzgerald, Flanagan, Fleming, Flint, Fox, Frazier Freel, Fuller
Gardner, Garnett, Gantrell, Gay, George, Gerald, Germany, Gibson, Gilpin, Graves, Gray, Green, Griffin, Griffins, Grimsley, Gunby
Contains will abstracts for the following surnames: (There are many other surnames contained within the body of these abstracts, these are the surnames
of the will maker only)
Hamilton, Hand, Handley, Hanson, Harden, Hardwick, Harris, Harrison, Harriss, Hawes, Haynes, Heggie, Hixon, Hickson, Hobbs, Hoge, Holliman, Holmes, Holzenback, Horn,
Howard, Hunt
Ivey
Wills - "J" and "L" (no "K" listings)
Contains will abstracts for the following surnames: (There are many other surnames contained within the body of these abstracts, these are the surnames
of the will maker only)
Jackson, Jelks, Jenkins, Jennings, Johns, Johnson, Johnston, Jones
Lacy, Lamar, Lamkin, Langston, Landers, Lazenby, Leigh, Leslie, Lewis, Ligon, Linn, Lott, Lovelace, Lowe, Luke, Lynn, Lyons
Contains will abstracts for the following surnames: (There are many other surnames contained within the body of these abstracts, these are the surnames
of the will maker only)
McCarthy, McCorkle, McDonald, McGar, McGee, McGehee, McFarland, McGee, McGruder, McNeil, Magruder, Marshall, Martin, Maxwell, Megahee, Mercer,
Meriwether, Miles, Miller, Money, Mooney, Moore, Morris, Morriss, Morrow, Morton, Murray
Napier, Neal, Nelson, Newman, Newsome
Contains will abstracts for the following surnames: (There are many other surnames contained within the body of these abstracts, these are the surnames
of the will maker only)
Olive, O'Neal, Overby, Owens
Pace, Palmer, Parkes, Parks, Paschal, Payne, Pearre, Perrea, Perry, Perryman, Phillips, Pollard, Porter, Prather, Prior, Pryor, Pullen
NO "Q" LISTINGS
Contains will abstracts for the following surnames: (There are many other surnames contained within the body of these abstracts, these are the surnames
of the will maker only)
Radford, Ragan, Ramsey, Randolph, Ray, Reed, Rees, Reese, Reeves, Reid, Reville, Reynolds, Rice, Richardson, Roberts, Ross, Roussau, Russell
Contains will abstracts for the following surnames: (There are many other surnames contained within the body of these abstracts, these are the surnames
of the will maker only)
Sampler, Sanders, Savage, Savidge, Scott, Seargent, Seay, Sessoms, Shanklin, Shaw, Shields, Schockley, Short, Simms, Skinner, Smalley, Smith, Spaulding, Stallings,
Stanford, Stapler, Stevenson, Stone, Stringer, Stuart, Stubblefield, Stubbs, Sturges, Sullivan, Sutherland, Sutton
Taylor, Telfiar, Thomas, Thompson, Thorne, Tillery, Tindall, Tinsley, Toole, Tooel, Todd, Tucker, Tudor, Turner, Tyler
Wills - "U", "V", "W", "Y" and "Z"
Contains will abstracts for the following surnames: (There are many other surnames contained within the body of these abstracts, these are the surnames
of the will maker only)
Underwood, Upton
Vincent, Vinson
Wade, Walicon, Walker, Walton, Watkins, Watson, Weathers, Welborn, Wellborn, Wellborne, Wheat, Wheer, Whitaker, Whitcomb, White, Whitfield,
Whittington, Wiley, Wilkins, Williams, Willingham, Willson, Wilson, Winfrey, Wood, Wooding, Wright, Wroe
Yarborough, Young
Zachry
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