Ware County GaArchives Wills.....Douglass, Burrell Estate 1884
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Source: Ware County Probate Office
Written: 1884

Georgia              To the Hon. Jesse E. Butler,
Ware County      Ordinary of said County:
 
    The petition of James R. and Henry Douglass, citizens of said county and 
next of kin of Burrell Douglass, late of said county, deceased. Show that said 
deceased departed this life in the 8th day of September 1884. And as they 
believe, intestate, leaving property, real and personal lying in said county of 
the probable value of fourteen hundred dollars and that said estate showed be 
administered upon for the purpose of collecting and paying the depts due to and 
owing by, the said estate and for the purpose of making distribution thereof 
among the heirs of said deseased.
   Wherefore, your petitioners pray an order, directing citation to issue and 
be published in terms of the law, and that, if no goods could be shown to the 
contrary, your petitioners be appointed the permanent administrators of the 
estate of the said deceased.
 
Sept. 10th 1884
 
                                                                                
    James R. Douglass
                                                                                
      Henry Douglass
                                                                                
    by L. A. Wilson Atty.
 
    Read and considered, and it is hereby ordered that citation issued and be 
published as required by law, this 10th day of Sept. 1884.
 
                                                                                
  Jesse E. Butler
                                                                               
Ordinary Ware Co.
 
  Georgia                            To whom it may 
 Ware County                     concern:
 
                                                                                
                                                                      
 James R. Douglas and Henry Douglass has in due form applied to the undersigned 
for permanent letters of administration on the estate of Burrell Douglass, late 
of said county, deceased and I will pass upon said application on the first 
Monday in Nov. 1884.
 
                                                                            
Jesse E. Butler
                                                                            
Ordinary W. C.
 
 
   State of Georgia
    Ware County
 
             To Jesse E. Butler, Ordinary of said County,
 
                   The petition of J. R. Douglass and Henry Douglass, 
Administrators of the estate of Burrell Douglass deceased late of said county, 
showed that after paying all the debts of said deceased, there is now in the 
hands and under the control of your petitioners as said administrators, besides 
the lands belonging to said estate about seventy head of stock cattle more or 
less and that a division of said cattle    your petitioners alledge is not only 
practicable but necessary in order that they may be properly cared for and the 
interest of several distributors.
                 Your Petitioners further show that the heirs and distibutors 
of said estate are nine in number to wit:   Nancy Douglass, J. R. Douglass, 
Henry Douglass, Seaborn Douglass, Nancy Eunice, Mary Ann Barber, Jane Godwin 
and Burrell Douglass and Mary Douglass, child of Wm Douglass deceased, the 
latter two being minors and as yet without guardians.
             Wherefore your petitioners pray the granting of an order for a 
division of said cattle and the appointment of three or more farm holders of 
said county for the purpose of appraising and of dividing said property.
 
                       Leon A. Wilson
                       H. P. Brown
                       Petion Atty.
 
   Upon reading the Application of James R. Douglass and Henry Douglass 
Administrators of the Estate of Burrell Douglass deceased late of said county 
is ordered that George Lee Jr. , Leroy Thrift, William Thrift, Milledge Woodard 
and  J. V. Eunice be and they are hereby appointed by said administrators to 
divide the stock of cattle as prayed for in their petiton and make their return 
to the Court od Ordinary on the first Monday in December next-witness by
 
                        hand and official
                        Signature Nov. 5th 1884
                        Jesse E. Butler
                        Ordinary


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