Georgia:  Hancock County:  Will of David Dickson
21 July 1884

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FHL film #0222081
Hancock County, Georgia Wills, 1863-1909

(My notes are in parenthesis)

WILL OF DAVID DICKSON


Written: July 21, 1884.
Probated: March 2, 1885

Executors: T. J. Warthen (Thomas Jefferson), Charles W. Dubose

Witnesses: Lovick Pierce (Jr.), F. L. Little (Frank Lightfoot), R. B. Baxter (Richard B.

Death:	Feb. 18, 1885

Bequests.

Item #1. 
Debts, etc paid.

Item #2
	Henry T. Dickson, Texas	 	1,000 acres in Texas, more or less
	(third cousin, son of William Dickson and Lucinda A. Crawford)

Item #3
	Thomas J. Warthen 		two-three thousand acres in Washington 
Co., Ga.

(nephew of David Dickson, son of Malinda Dickson and Wm. B. Warthen, II) 

Item #4
	Julian H. Dickson
	Charles G. Dickson
(grandsons of David Dickson, sons of Amanda A. Dickson and Charles H. Eubanks)

Item #5 	
Brothers & sisters of Thomas J. Warthen		$5,000

Item #6	
Augustus E. Eubank - 		$2,000
(nephew of David Dickson, son of Susanna Moore Eubank, daughter of 
Elizabeth S. Dickson)

	Rebecca Warthen		$2,000
	Arabella Warthen		$2,000
	Malinda Warthen		$2,000
	Kieron Warthen			$2,000
(nieces of David Dickson, daughters of Lurana Dickson and James M. Warthen)

	Sarah Richardson		$1,000

	Anna Rogers			$1,000
(niece of David Dickson , daughter of Lucinda Dickson and Henry Rogers)

	Emma Rogers			$   500
(Wife of Simeon D. Rogers, nephew of David Dickson , son of Lucinda Dickson and Henry Rogers)

	Berta Rogers			$   500
		(Daughter of Emma and Simeon D. Rogers)

Fanny Burton			$2,000
(niece of David Dickson . daughter of Lurana Dickson and James M. 
Warthen)

Item #7-9 
Amanda A. Dickson
(daughter of David Dickson and Julia Lewis)

The rest of his estate and the provisions for the protection of Amanda 
and that of her sons.


NOTE:  When David Dickson died in 1885, he willed his estate to Amanda, his 
mulatto daughter.  After the will was upheld in Probate Court, the white 
Dickson family appealed this decision to the Superior Court of Hancock County 
and the Georgia Supreme Court.  The Georgia Supreme Court upheld the ruling 
of the Probate Court of Hancock Co. and Amanda America Dickson became the 
wealthiest African American woman in Georgia at that time.