TUTORSHIP OF EMMA S. ROBERTS & SUCCESSION OF MRS. ELIZA A. ROBERTS Carroll Parish, Louisiana Submitted by: Evelyn Mathews Ross 10/02 Records of East Carroll Parish, LA Succession Drawer 56 Abstracted: Sept. 23, 1996 Dedicated to my mother & her love of genealogy. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://theusgenweb.net/copyright.htm http://theusgenweb.net/la/lafiles.htm *********************************************** Tutorship of Emma S. Roberts. Family Meeting. Filed 8-2-1860. ... The Petition of Benjamin D. Roberts a resident of the Parish and State aforesaid; would with respect Show; That Eliza A. Roberts his wife died on 20th day of July 1860 leaving one child (a minor) Emma S. Roberts legitimate heir of her late husband Sebastian P. Roberts and a Small Estate without administration. That it is necessary that a family meeting be convoked composed of the following persons relatives and friends of Said minor to wit Watt Roberts, Ezekiel Graves, Robert Montgomery, Sanders D. Oliver and Parke W. DeFrance... evident advantage to said minor to appoint Benjamin D. Roberts Tutor and Ezekial Graves = Under Tutor... Succession of Mrs. Eliza A. Roberts. Petition for Homologation of proceedings of family meeting. Filed 8-2-1860. Tutorship of Emma S. Roberts. Letter of Tutor. ... Benjamin D. Roberts has been appointed Dative Tutor of the minor Emma S. Roberts child of S.P. & Eliza Roberts both deceased... 8-2-1860. Oath of Benjamin D. Roberts. 8-2-1860. Tutors Bond. Filed 8-2-1860. ESTATE OF E.S. ROBERTS. ACCOUNT OF TUTOR. FILED 2-21-1861. 7 items to be paid - Total $98.51 Item 2 = Filed 4-13-1861. Floyd, La. 8-19-1860 Received of Benjamin D. Roberts Tutor... $5 for digging grave of his wife Mrs. E.A. Roberts. Michael Noonan. Item 3 = Filed 4-13-1861. Assorted Clerk fees $11.65. Item 5 = Filed 4-13-1861. Floyd, La. Received of Benjamin D. Roberts... $12 the amount of board due me for Emma Roberts for the month of December 1860. Martha J. Payne.