Taliaferro County GaArchives Court.....Edwards, Benjamin And Mary 1884 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Dr. Rem B. Edwards remb@utk.edu and Thomas Edwards December 17, 2004, 10:12 am Source: Ordinary Court Records 1884 Written: 1884 Georgia Taliaferro County This is to signify that we Benjamin Lee Edwards and Mary Thomas Edwards, Minors of Thomas Edwards dec'd late of said County are over the age of fourteen years, and do hereby select our mother, Mary J. Edwards as our Guardian: This February 4, 1884 Benjamin Lee Edwards Mary Thomas Edwards Upon reading the foregoing petition of Mr. Mary J. Edwards widow of Thomas Edwards dec'd and also upon considering the selection of and consent of the two minors of said dec'd for their mother to be appointed their guardian; It is ordered at this term of the Court that said Mary Jane Edwards be and she is hereby appointed Guardian of said two minor children and upon her giving Bond and good security and taking the usual oath; that Letters of said Guardianship do issue to her. This Feb 4, 1884 Charles A. Beazley, Ordinary. Georgia Taliaferro County To the Ordinary of said County The petition of Mrs. Mary Edwards, widow of Thomas Edwards, late of said County dec'd shows that, there are two minor children of said dec'd both over the age of fourteen years and that the said two minor children to wit Benjamin Lee Edwards and Mary Thomas Edwards are heirs at law of said Thomas Edwards dec'd. And that there is a tract of land in said county besides some personal property; which they have an interest in by virtue of the will of their grandfather, Etheldred Edwards late of said county dec'd and that said Benjamin Lee Edwards and Mary Thomas Edwards have made selection of their Mother Mary Edwards to be appointed Buardian by the Court of Ordinary of said County to take charge of said interest and perform all and singular the duties required of her as such Guardian. Mary Edwards, Petition File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/taliaferro/court/wl524edwards.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb