FRANKLIN COUNTY, TN - WILLS - Heirs of John Bowlby Palmer and wife 
				Sarah Rich Palmer
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Heirs of John Bowlby Palmer and wife Sarah Rich Palmer of Franklin Co., TN
 
Probate Record for the Estate of Sarah Rich Palmer

Gonzales Co., TX Probate Book B, File #488

Petition of Lewis Evans and Eliza Evans and Wm. L. Weddington and Hannah 
Weddington for partition of Estate of Sarah Palmer dec'd. Filed Feb. 5th, 1859 
F. Chenault, Clk.

The State of Texas Gonzales County } In County Court sitting on business 
appertaining to estates of dec'd. persons January Term 1859

To Hon. Charles Mason, Chief Justice of Gonzales County-

Your petitioners Lewis Evans and his wife Eliza Evans both of said County and 
State and Wm. L. Weddington and his wife Hannah Weddington both of DeWitt 
County in said State represent that Sarah Palmer late of Gonzales County, 
Texas, departed this life intestate in said County on the 10th of October A.D. 
1858, leaving a small estate and that the said Lewis Evans has been by your 
Hon. appointed administrator of the estate of said decedent and has filed in 
your Court his inventory and appraisement of said estate and that all the 
debts of the estate have been paid and that the only heirs of said decedent 
are her three children to wit the said Eliza Evans and Hannah Weddington and 
Margarette Weddington and the said last named Margarette Weddington is the 
wife of Eli B. Weddington both of whom reside in Gibson County in the State of 
Tennessee, being non-residents. Your petitioners file their bond in the terms 
of the law for the partition of said estate and pray that the same be 
partitioned equally between the said Eliza Evans and Hannah Weddington and 
Margarette Weddington. The property to be partitioned consists of twelve 
negroes and some stock and some claims due the estate, as per inventory. 
Prayer is made that the said non-resident Margarette Weddington and her 
husband Eli B. Weddington be cited by publication in the terms of the law to 
appear at the March term of your Court to be holden in the town of Gonzales in 
Gonzales County on the last Monday in March on the 28th day of the month, and 
that partition of said estate of said decedent be then decided and for equity 
and general relief.

Wm. H. & T.R. Stewart

Attys. for Petitioners.

[Note: After John Bowlby Palmer died in 1825 in Franklin Co., TN, his widow 
Sarah Rich Palmer moved to Arkansas and Texas with her daughter and son-in-law 
Eliza and Lewis Evans.]