Georgia: Oglethorpe County: Settlement of John Bell Estate ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store this file permanently for free access. This file was contributed by: E. Annette Hudson Rose earphoto@gonetgo.com ==================================================================== Proof of Mary Beasley's third marriage. Copied from Oglethorpe county, GA Ordinary Court Records Transcribed July 25, 2001 by E. Annette Hudson Rose Page 358 of the Settlement of Estates 1847-1849, Oglethorpe county Ordinary Office. January Term, 1849. 26 December 1848. Received of John A. Bell & Joseph Cramer executors of the Last Will & Testament of John Bell, desc. The following negroes which were held by the said John Bell, as Tenant for life, in right of his wife, Mary, formerly Hudson, who held a life estate in said negroes under the will of John Hudson of Lunenburg county, Virginia, her first husband. The said widow being now dead & the life estate terminated to wit: Lucy, Harriet, Rhoda, Kelly, Anna, Jon, Peter, Jordan, Richard, Gilbert, Booker, Frederick, Major, Scott, Taylor, Edward, Jack, Mary, Susan, E___ {?Emy}, Perry, Amanda, and Sarah. Said negroes after the death of the said Mary Bell, formerly Mary Hudson, under the will of the said John Hudson, belongs to us as Remainder __, and the repesentitives of the Remainder ___, the children & to said children of John Hudson, dec'd. Signed: Ward Hudson Nathaniel H. Smith [husband of Elizabeth.....ear] Charles McDowel, Adm on the estate of Robert Hudson Henry Beasley, Adm on the estate of John Hudson dec'd [this John would be a grandson, with his estate being in Noxubee county, MS. At the time of his death, he was the executor on his father, Frederick Hudson's, estate. Henry O. Beasley became the executor of all those estates John had been in charge of.] Just below this appears proof that Mary does fit into the family group of Robert Beasley and his wife, Elizabeth Willingham. As her brother makes the following statement: I, Jarrell Beasley do hereby certify that the negroes named in the foregoing receipt are the descendants of Nelly, one of the negroes, given by John Hudson of Virginia to his wife Mary for life and after her death to his children. Mary Bell, the tenant for life being my sister and the facts all known to me. 26th Dec. 1848. Signed: Jarrel Beasley Recorded the 7th day of February, 1849 by Henry Britain, C.C.O. ********** A marriage record appears in the "Marriage Records of Greene County, Georgia (1787-1875) and Oglethorpe county, Georgia (1795-1852)" which I had highlighted and now fully understand: "Bell, John and Mary Ward........September 20, 1831." To make things a bit interesting...over in Greene county, Georgia there was a marriage that could really confuse things? "Bell, John and Mary Beasley....March ___1839, by John Harris, M.G." I don't know who these two are? Of course we already knew that Mary Beasley Hudson had married in 1793, Seth Ward. He died in the mid 1820's in Oglethorpe county, GA. Plus, we found Mary Ward living next door to her son, Ward Hutson in the 1830 Oglethorpe county, GA census.