Wilkinson County  Georgia Court Milly Pierce Custody of children of Daniel S. Pierce

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Irwinton The 4 May 1837

This the Honorable Superior Court sitting as a Court of
Ordinary and pursuant to adjournment:

Attest                                                

 Present their Honors
T.Ecunel }                                  
Clerk
						
Saml. Beale, JJC
						
M. Etheridge, JJC
						
L. U. Robinson, JJC
						
J. Peacock, JJC

It is ordered and adjudged by the Court that Milly Pearce
be hereby appointed Guardian for the orphans of Daniel S.
Pearce, Deceased, late of Wilkinson County, for Martha,
Caroline, William, Henry, John Silas and Wingfield Scott,
upon her given bond security in the sum of Three Thousand
Dollars that ?? Hatcher be received and admitted as her
security.

It is ordered by this Court that William F. Boon, son of
Daniel S. Pearce, Deceased, have leave to sell the lands
belonging to said Estate, he having given legal notice of
his intention.

(Note: The Rev. William F. Boon was the son-in-law of
Daniel Pierce; having married Malissa Pierce, the
daughter of Daniel and MIlly Ann Pierce.  Malissa Pierce
died at an early, but unknown date.  After her death
William F. Boon remarried Rebecca Meredith Cooper.  The
Boon family moved to Louisiana circa 1860.)

Recorded from the original document in the Wilkinson
County Courthouse, Irwinton, Georgia, by Miriam M. Brown.

Daniel S. and Milly Ann Pierce were the parents of Martha
Pierce Langford, wife of James Langford.  The Pierces'
had seven children.  They married into the Boone family,
the Langford family, the Etheridge family, and the
Honeycutt family.

Daniel S. Pierce/Pearce died in May of 1837.  The
documents are the sale of his personal estate on May 4,
1837.  The court document gives his wife custody of their
children.



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