Jasper County GaArchives Court.....Kitchens, Elizabeth 1867
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Larry Knowles http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00012.html#0002854 February 14, 2024, 5:10 pm

Source: Georgia Archives-supreme Court File
Written: 1867
Recorded: June 1869

'Kitchens vs Kitchens'-Georgia Supreme Court, June Term-1869:Brief of widow 
Elizabeth Kitchens' testimony.

The summary below was compiled from several pages presented in the Georgia 
Supreme Court appeal. All are found in the 'Kitchens vs Kitchens' file in the 
Georgia State Archives. Depositions of many Kitchens children, their 
grandchildren, and third-party witnesses are also found in that file. The 
original Jasper County loose papers-(over 340 pages from the local trials-with 
many duplicates)-are found online in the 'Georgia Probate Records' through 
familysearch.org. The depositions are the most interesting.

BRIEF OF ORAL TESTIMONY-from the Supreme Court file-'Kitchens vs Kitchens'-in 
the Georgia State Archives
Given in the case of Kitchens vs Kitchens. Elizabeth Kitchens sworn propounder 
says the will was made in November or Dec. before the death of Charles Kitchens 
which occurred on the 13th January 1864. Witnesses to the will were Roberts, 
Harvey, Parker & Garner. Will was handed to her by Harvey after it was signed & 
sealed by him-sealed by him with his ring-[imprinted in a waxed wafer]-was put 
in chest and locked-chest near the bed-she kept the key-the will was put in a 
Mason book & then put in the chest-she saw it everyday-kept tobacco & other 
things in the chest-kept some spirits in it to make the old man a dram. She saw 
the will after the old man was dead-she had opened the chest to get a pair of 
socks & Matilda-[Nelms?]-took up the will and was looking at it and showed the 
seal to John Kitchens. She is 74 years old-the property left by Charles Kitchens 
was two lots of land, some cattle, hogs, sheep, household & kitchen furniture. 
Most of the personal property was sold by the administrator Owens-but little 
left for her, two beds and furniture and some other small articles. Charles 
Kitchens said the reason he made the will was, he got some property by her and 
that she was old-said she had raised 8 children & the Sansom children and that 
she did complain of the will written by Pope because she heard it gave away her 
bed clothes and she did not quit her husband on account of it & talked to 
him.......

I believe there were 73 pages in the record.



Additional Comments:
See additional information between the major lines. There was separate testimony 
that Elizabeth did leave her husband, going to daughter Matilda Dearing's home 
in Butts Co., in order to get him to write a new will, to replace the earlier 
one written by William Pope! Note: The online 'Court Reports' summary of the 
case erroneously listed Joel Kitchen as being among the four persons present the 
night the will was taken. That person was John Kitchens above to whom the will 
was displayed by his cousin Matilda (Nelms). Joel was a married man who would 
have been in his own home nearby.

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