Jones County Georgia Estate John Henderson - Frances Henderson, Administrator File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by DaisyZ@aol.com Jeanie Smith Zadach Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/jones.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm Jones County, Georgia Court of Ordinary Page 363 1852 Ordered that letters of administration on the estate of John Henderson deceased be granted to Francis Henderson upon her giving bond and security in the sum of six hundred dollars and that Thadeus M. McLeroy and John S. Walker be received as her securities. Appraisers in William Paul, J.I. Smith, Zachariah Herndon, Samuel B. Finney & Gid T. Braddy. Page 396 July Term 1853 Sarah Jane Henderson, orphan child of John Henderson late of Jones County deceased, being over the age of fourteen years and without a guardian comes into open court and makes choice of Francis Henderson, her mother, as her guardian. And it further appearing to the Court that Esther B., Washington I., Abi and Henry, other orphans of the said John Henderson and under the age of fourteen years are without a guardian. It is ordered by the Court that letters of Guardianship of the person and property of the said Sarah Jane Henderson, Esther B., Washington I., Abi and Henry Henderson be granted to the said Francis Henderson their Mother upon her giving bond and security in the sum of one hundred and sixty dollars and the said Francis Henderson having given bond and taken the oath prescribed by law, letters of Guardianship was this day issued to her. July 4, 1853