HENRY COUNTY WILLS

Micajah Jones

MINUTES, October Term, 1885, Court of Ordinary, Henry County, Georgia

Present A.A. Swanson Ordinary

Citation having been duly issued and published requiring all and singular the next of kin and creditors of Micajah Jones late of said county to appear at this time and show cause if any they could why permanent letters of administration should not be granted to T.R. Jones of said county.

The parties….no valued objection in the ….. It is ordered by this court that letters of administration issued to T.R. Jones as administrator of Micajah Jones upon his giving bond and security in the sum of Fifteen hundred dollars with W.G. Jones and Wm. Burns taking the usual oath of office. And it is further ordered that W.G. Burns, R.A. Hightower, T.M. Gamage, Wily Milam and Isreal Askew freeholders of said county be and they are hereby appointed appraisers of the estate of Micajah Jones deceased and that the usual warrant issue.

Transcription by Mildred Kimbell Poe.

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MINUTES, October Term, 1885, Court of Ordinary, Henry County, Georgia

Upon the application of T.R. Jones administrator of Micajah Jones, it is ordered that said T.R. Jones administrator of aforesaid have leave to sell the personal property belonging to the estate of Micajah Jones deceased after giving notice of such sale b written advertisement for ten days at three of more public places in said county.

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MINUTES, November Term, 1885, Court of Ordinary, Henry County, Georgia

Notice of the application for leave to sell the land belonging to the Estate of Micajah Jones deceased having been published as required by law and no objections being filed to the granting of said application and it appearing that it is necessary or the purpose of paying the debts and sharing distribution among the heirs of said deceased that said lands be sold. It is hereby ordered that leave be granted T.R. Jones administrator of said deceased to sell the land belonging to said Estate lying in said county consisting of the home place containing ninet eight acres of land being part of lot No 92 in twelfth district of Henry County.

A.A. Swanson Ordinary

(Source: Henry County, Georgia, Minutes of Superior Court, Book D, pages 117,118,126)

Transcription by Mildred Kimbell Poe

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GEORGIA, HENRY COUNTY

Know all Men by these Presents, That we T.R. Jones principal and W,G. Jones and W.G. Burns securities are held and firmly bond unto His Honor, George M. Nolan, Ordinary of said county for the time being, and his successors in office, in the just and full sum of Fifteen Hundred Dollars, for the payment of which sum to the said Ordinary as aforesaid, and his successors in office, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators, in the whole and for the whole sum, jointly and severally and firmly by these presents.

Sealed with our seals and dated this 7th day of September 1885.

The condition of the above Obligation is such, That if the above bound T.R. Jones Administrator of the estate real and personal, of Micajah Jones late of this county, deceased, do make a true and faithful inventory of all the estate, both real and personal, of said deceased, while have or shall come into the hands, possession or knowledge of the said T.R. Jones or into the hands or possession of any other person or persons, for him and the same so made to exhibit into the said Court of Ordinary when he shall be thereunto required; and such estates do well and truly administer, according to the law, and do make a just and true account of his actings and doings therein, when he shall be thereunto required by the Court of Ordinary for said county, and all the rest of the said estate which shall be found remaining upon the account of the said administration, the same being first allowed by the Court, shall deliver and pay to such person or persons respectively as are entitle to the same by law; and if it shall hereafter appear that any last will and testament was made by the deceased, and the same be proven before the Court of Ordinary, and the executor obtain a certificated of the probate thereof, and the said T.R. Jones do in such case, if required, render and deliver up said letters of administration, then this obligation to be void; else to remain in full force.

Signed, sealed and acknowledged in open court, day and date above written.

Attest: T.R Jones Seal

W.G. Jones Seal

W.G. Burns Seal

A.A. Swanson Ordinary

(Source: Henry County, Georgia Administrator’s Bond Book B, 1870-1937, page 134.

Transcriptions by Mildred Kimbell Poe

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GEORGIA, HENRY COUNTY

By A.A. Swanson Ordinary for said County

WHEREAS, Micajah Jones late of said County, deceased, died intestate, while he lived, and at the time of his death, divers goods, chattels and credits within the County aforesaid, b means whereof, the full disposition and power of granting the Administration of al and singular the goods, chattels, rights and credits of the said deceased, and also, a final dismission from the Court aforesaid, does of right belong, and the said Court desiring that the goods, chattels, rights and credits of the said deceased may well and truly administered and legally disposed, do grant unto T.R. Jones full power, by the tenor of these presents, to administer the goods, chattels, rights, credits and lands of said deceased, which to him in his lifetime and at the time of his death did belong; and to ask, demand, sue for, recover and receive the same, and to pay the debts in which the deceased stood bound, so far forth as his assets will extend, according to law; and then, the balance, justly to pay over to the legal heirs and distributes of said deceased. And the said T.R. Jones having given bond and security, and taken the oath prescribed by law, and performed all other requisites necessary to his just qualification as Administrator is by order of said Court, and by virtue of these presents, ordained, constituted and appointed Administrator of all and singular the goods, chattels, rights, credits and lands of the said deceased.

WITNESS, My Hand and Seal, this 7th day of September Eighteen Hundred Eighty Five.

A.A. Swanson Ordinary

(Source: Henry County, Georgia Letters of Administration Book B, page 319.)

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