Georgia: Oglethorpe County: Receipt of Estate, John & Mary Bell 26 December 1848 ==================================================================== 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 ==================================================================== LDS film #158761 Oaglethorpe County Georgia Annual Returns (Transcribed July 2003, E. Annette Hudson Rose.) Oglethorpe County Ordinary Office January Term 1849 December 1848. Received of John A. Bell & Joseph Cramer Executors of the Last Will & Testament of John Bell dec'd, 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 Lunenberg County, Virginia, her first husband. The said widow being now dead & the life estate terminated to wit: Lucy, Harriet, Rhoda, Nell, Ann, Jim, Peter, Jordan, Richard, Gilbert, Booker, Frederich, Major, Scott, Tayler, Edward, Jack, Mary, Susan, Emry, 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 Representatives of the Remainder ___ their children & to said chidren of John Hudson deceased. Ward Hudson Nathaniel H. Smith (husband of Elizabeth Hudson) Charles McDowel, Adm on the estate of Robert Hudson Henry Beasley, Adm on the estate of John Hudson (John had been the Adm on the estate of Frederick Hudson, with Henry O. Beasley taking it on after his death. Henry at this point was a brother-in-law to this John Hudson.) I, Jarrell Beasley, do hereby certify that the negros named in the forgoing Receipt are the decendants of Nelly, one of the negroes given by John Hudson of Virginia to his wife Mary for life and after her death to his chidren. Mary Bell, the tenant for life being my sister and the facts all known to me. 26th Dec 1848. Jarrel (sic) Beasley Recorded the 7th day of February 1849.............Henry Britian. CCO ********* Questions...when did Mary die? John Bell died, and these men were his executors, was Mary alive at the time of John's death, or, had she already died? Ward Hudson was in Monroe county, Ms., Frederick and his family was in Noxubee county, Ms., where was Robert Hudson? At one point, he was in Jasper county, GA., but his sons and grandsons will be found in Noxubee county at some point in time........what was the names of his children? John was one, Isaac B. was another........