Estate Distribution: Silas M. Pennington, 1873; Coweta Co., Georgia

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Distribution of Estates - Book I
1844 - 1892
Probate Court
Coweta County, Georgia

Page 111

Silas M. Pennington

Georgia, Coweta County

       By virtue of an Order of the Court
of ordinary of said county to me directed
to make distribution of the Estate, the
same being lands of Silas M. Pennington,
late of said county, in hands of W.T. Neill,
administrator; among his lawful dis-
tributees Ida E. Pennington and Frances
E. Odom, we proceeded in the following
manner this 26th day of September 1873
to execute said order after first being
sworn by each other.

The distributees were found to be two and
of course the estate which consisted of the
East half lot of land number 230 in the first
District of said county was to be divided as
near as possible into two equal parts.
We procured the services of the county Sur-
veyor and had the Said East half of lot
of land No. 230 divided into two equal parts
by a line running East and West through
the middle of said half lot.

The north half of said half lot being occu-
pied at the time of this distribution by
one of the distributees, Mrs. Francis E.
Odom, we assigned that to her but then
having the improvements on it, we con-
sidered it to be worth one hundred & fifty
dollars more than the South half.
Therefore in giving the South half of said
land to Ida E. Pennington we required Mrs.
Frances E. Odom to pay to W. T. Neill, the
Guardian of Ida E. Pennington, Seventy five
dollars.
       Sept 26, 1873   F. M. Brantley}
                       B. F. Cook    } Commissioners
                       E. T. Peek    }

Recorded July 12th 1880
               J. P. Brewster, Ordy

(Genealogy/Relationship Notes: Frances Emily (Stewart) Pennington Odom 
was the widow of Silas M. Pennington, son of William Henry & Mary 
Elizabeth (Coggin) Pennington.  Silas & Frances were married 18 July 
1858 in Coweta Co., Georgia.  He was born ca 1840 in Pike Co., Georgia 
and died at the Rock Island Union Army POW Barracks in Illinois on 23 
March 1864.  Frances married 2nd to William M. Odom ca 1867.  Ida 
Elizabeth Pennington was the only child of Silas & Frances.  She was 
born 4 July 1860 in Coweta Co., Georgia.  She married Charles Bartow 
Nixon on 4 January 1877.  W. T. Neill is William Tatum Neill, son of 
Frances's sister, Martha (Stewart) Neill, and therefore First Cousin to 
his ward, Ida (Pennington) Nixon.