Jasper County GaArchives Court.....Kitchens, Elizabeth Et Al January 1864
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Source: Georgia Supreme Court File-state Archives
Written: January 1864
Recorded: June 1869

Kitchens vs Kitchens-Georgia Supreme Court file, Georgia State Archives-case listed

as GA 139-168 in 'Court Reports' published in 1870.

Petition of Elizabeth Kitchens to probate a copy of her husband's will

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The petition of Elizabeth Kitchens widow showth*
that her husband Charles Kitchens of said County*
departed this life on the 13th day of January 1864 in*
said County. That the heirs at law of the said Charles*
Kitchens dec. consisted of your petitioner, Joel Kitch*
ens, Barthenia Willson widow, Sallie Sansome widow*
all of said county, Moses Kitchens of Newton County*
Matilda Dearing widow and the orphan children*
of Nelson Kitchens of Butts County, William B.*
Kitchens of Jasper County, and Henry Kitchens of*
Jasper County. That said Charles Kitchens died tes(?)*
tated(?) leaving his last will and testament and*
that since the death of the said Charles Kitchens*
his said last will and testament has been lost or*
wrongfully destroyed to prevent the execution of the*
same. That letters of administration were on the*
first Monday in April 1864 granted by the Ordinary*
of Jasper County to Jessie M. Owens of Newton*
which atty for petitioner prays may be revoked*
That under the provisions of said last will and tes*
tament, a true copy of which is here in Court*
produced and propounded for probate in solemn*
form by your petitioner as sole legatee-and*
devisee and your petitioner prays that citation*
and notice do issue to the said heirs at law of the*
said Charles Kitchens dec. requiring then to ap*
pear before the honarable Court at such terms*
as your honor may direct, to show cause in any they*
have why said copy will of said Charles Kitchens*
be established and admitted to probate in sol*
emn form and established in lieu of the lost original*
And your petitioner in duty bounty will ever pray & c*
Barlett and Lofton Petitioner Attorney


Additional Comments:
Note: This page was found in the Georgia Supreme Court file-'Kitchens vs Kitchens' 
in the State Archives, obviously as composed by the widow's attorneys. It is 
unclear whether daughter Sallie Sansome was still living when the suit began-as 
later versions of the petition interlined the names of two of her daughters, Sarah 
Cook and Elizabeth Arrington-perhaps indicating their mother's recent death. Though

not listed with the girls-brother W. C. Kitchens was shown earlier as having 
received $125.00 from the estate by administrator Jesse M. Owens. Others shown in 
the petition are heirs-at-law, Joel Kitchens, Moses Kitchens, Nelson Kitchens, 
William B. Kitchens, Henry Kitchens, Bartenia Wilson, and Matilda Dearing.

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