St Landry County Louisiana Archives News.....Thomas Jefferson Walker Estate Sale 1859 December 31, 1859
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The Opelousas Courier December 31, 1859
Thomas Jefferson Walker Estate Sale 1859

The Opelousas Courier
December 31, 1859, Vol. 8, No. 4
Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, Louisiana

Notice of Estate Sale
for Thomas Jefferson Walker property

The public are hereby informed that there will be sold at public sale, to the last
and highest bidder, by the undersigned Administrator, at the residence of Thomas S.
[J.] Walker, in Bayou Chicot Settlement, in the parish of St. Landry on Tuesday 24th
January next, 1860, the following described property, belonging to the succession in
community between John Whittington and his children, the issue of his marriage with
Sarah Nelson, his deceased wife to-wit:

197 ACRES OF LAND, on which Thomas S. [J.] Walker now resides, situated in Bayou
Chicot Settlement, Parish of St. Landry.

200 Arpents [169 acres] of Land, belonging to the Carns Tract.

214 Acres of Land, belonging to the McDaniel Tract.

A NEGRO-WOMAN.

68 head of cattle with the brand JB; 2 yoke of oxen; 1 ox cart; 10 head of horse
creature; 2 mules; one jenny; 42 head of sheep; 100 head of hogs; one lot of
blacksmith's tools; 4 beds; 2 tables; kitchen utensils; the improvements on Pine
Woods.

Terms and conditions: -- Payable in four equal and annual instalments, from the 1st
of April next, 1860; -- Purchasers furnishing their notes with good security in
solido [for the whole], to the satisfaction of whom the right, with 8 percent
interest per annum, from maturity until paid.  And moreover, the lands and slave
remaining mortaged until full and entire payment of capital and interests.

JOHN WHITTINGTON, Administrator
Opelousas, December 24th, 1859

Additional Comments:
Note from Author:
Thomas Jefferson Walker, Sr. was my GG Grandfather, b. 24 Jan 1822 in Bayou Chicot,
St. Landry Parish, LA and d. 28 Jan 1858 in Bayou Chicot, St. Landry Parish, LA.  He
married Francis Whittington, dau. of John and Sarah Nelson Whittington, on 27 Feb
1841 in Bayou Chicot, St. Landry Parish, LA, b. 9 Dec 1818 in LA and d. before 1880
in Bayou Chicot, St. Landry Parish, LA.

John Whittington was my GGG Grandfather, b. 24 Mar 1799 in Marion County, SC and d.
24 Sep 1877 in Bayou Chicot, St. Landry Parish, LA.  He married Sarah Nelson on 20
Sep 1817 in Libery, Amite County, MS, b. 3 Jun 1800 in SC and d. 4 May 1857 in Bayou
Chicot, St. Landry Parish, LA.

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