Ordinary Court Minutes,
Union Co., GA - 1901Roll #RHS 3957 - Georgia
Union County, Georgia
- Court of Ordinary
Ordinary Court Minutes
- 1891-1903
[Pages 363 thru 394
-- 1901]
Transcribed by Linda
Smith Murray on Nov 1, 2000, from microfilm copy purchased
from the Georgia Archives.
Note:
Most pages are not transcribed verbatim, but contain all pertinent
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Page 363
In vacation
Ordered that SY Jarrett
be appointed Clerk Court of Ordinary .... upon his
taking the oath and
giving bond as the law directs, and he shall be allowed one
(blank) of the fees
of said office. Given under
my hand and signature.
Page 364
Oath of SY Jarrett
- Sworn to and subscribed before me this January 1, 1901.
John T. Colwell, Ordinary
Page 365
Union County
Ordered by the court
of Ordinary that the following named persons be appointed
Commissioners of their
respective districts for the years 1901 and 1902, and
they are required
to perform all the duties required of them by law as such
officers during their
term of office. Granted this
------ day of --------, 1901
John
T. Colwell, Ordinary
Arkaqua District -
JH Davis, Thomas Conley, William Jackson
Blairsville District
- Thomas J. Butt, AL England, Ab Satterfield
Brasstown District
- Lon Hulander, James Boling, Henry Erwin
Choestoe District
- William Curtis, Elus Collins, John C. Cain
Canada District -
Sam McGee, Hiram Abercrombie, John Nelson
Coopers Creek District
- JA Dockery, William Jones, John Picklesimer
(the following written
in between the lines)
1902 - John Hutson,
John Shoup instead of Pickelsimer and Dockery moved out
Coosa District - JY
Walker, WR Logan, WM Brackett
Doola District - GW
Thompson, JM Poteet, JD Davenport
Gaddistown District
- James D. Gurley, Jacob M. Cochran, JD Brookshire
Gumlog District -
Bob Henderson, SJ Rogers, AC Hemphill
Page 366
Owltown District -
Orum May, Henry Morgan, Richard England
Upper Young Cane -
JC Carroll, John Medaris, Jr., JB Chastain
Lower Young Cane -
MJ Smith, George Mauney, Thomas P. Sullivan
Ivy Log District -
Charley Mauney, John A. Thomas, John Morgan
Page 367
Union Court Ordinary
- January Term 1901
Nellie Loudermilk
vs commissioners to set up Year’s Support - Caveat - PH
Haralson, attorney
for Nellie Loudermilk; WE Candler and ML Ledford, attorney
for commissioners
and executor. Continued to
February Term on account of
absence of one of
the commissioners.
In the case of Jane
Rogers, widow of JM Rogers, decd. - Application for Year’s
Support - Appraisers
having made their return, and same advertised as the law
directs, and there
being a caveat filed by the administrator to the return of
appraisers, and it
appearing to the court that this court would be disqualified
to judge the case
on account of relationship, it is ordered continued until the
first Monday in February
next. John T. Colwell, Ordinary
Page 368
Union Court Ordinary
- February Term 1901
Nellie Loudermilk
vs Commission Appraisers to set up Year’s Support
Caveat objecting to
return of appraisers - continued from January Term of this
court on account of
sickness of one appraiser PH Haralson, attorney for Nellie
and WE Candler, attorney
for Appraisers and Executor.
Judgment in favor
of return of appraisers - Appeal taken to Superior Court by
Nelly on pauper affidavit
- John T. Colwell, Ordinary
John F. Colwell, Administrator
vs Jane Rogers or Commissioners to set up Year’s
Support - PH Haralson,
attorney for Jane Rogers
The administrator
caveated the return of the appraisers.
Case came on to be
tried before the Clerk
of Superior Court as the law directs, the Ordinary being
disqualified - Continued
on account of ML Ledford, attorney for Caveator being
sick - James L. Haralson,
CSC
Page 369
Union Court Ordinary
- February Term 1901
By virtue of the power
in me vested by the laws of Georgia, I, John T. Colwell,
Ordinary in and for
said county do hereby order and decree that the grade of the
Tesanty Gap Turnpike
Road in said county shall be one foot in sixteen, that is
to say, said grade
shall not rise over one foot in sixteen.
Granted this
February 4, 1901 -
John T. Colwell, Ordinary
Petition of FG Duncan,
JF Crawford, Wellburn Ledford and others asking that Lige
Teague of Coosa District
be declared a pauper of said county and given the
benefits of the Pauper
House. Ordered by the court
that he be declared a pauper
of this county and
entitled to the benefits of the Pauper House, this February
4, 1901 - JTC, Ord.
Page 370
Union Court Ordinary
- March Term 1901
George Rogers vs Jane
Rogers - Caveat to the setting of Year’s Support - Motion
and Caveat filed March
4, 1901, by JA Butt, attorney for George Rogers, heir at
law
Application of John
A. Deaver for Permanent Letters of Administration on the
estate of Merida Davis
- Petition heard and citation issued and ordered
published in the Blairsville
Herald - Granted this 4th March 1901
Page 371
Union Court Ordinary
- April Term 1901
Hearing on the application
of John A. Deaver for Letters Administration on
estate of Merida Davis,
deceased - ordered continued until 1st Monday in May
next, by consent of
all parties - April 1, 1901
Application of AJ
Lance, Executor of LW&T of Daniel Loudermilk, deceased, for
leave to sell the
lands - Ordered citation issue and published.
April 1, 1901
Application of WJ
Ross, guardian of JH Ross, deceased, for leave to sell the
lands belonging to
said deceased. Ordered citation
issue and published. (not
dated, but before
adjournment, so apparently April 1, 1901)
Page 372
blank
Page 373
Union Court Ordinary
- May Term 1901
John Davis, Caveator
vs John Deavers, applicant for administration on estate of
Merida Davis, deceased.
Caveator asking that he or some other good person be
appointed administrator
- ordered that Frank Duckworth be appointed
administrator on the
estate of Merida Davis, deceased, upon his making good and
solvent bond and taking
the usual oath. May 6, 1901
Petition at the April
Term of this court of AJ Lance, Executor of the will of
Daniel Loudermilk,
praying for leave to sell the land of said deceased - ordered
by the court that
the said executor be granted leave to sell for the purpose of
making distribution
and paying debts, the following described land - Lot of Land
#128, 8th and 1st,
containing 160 acres more or less.
It appearing to the court
that the widow of
said deceased has taken dower in said land, and it further
appearing that for
the purpose of paying debts of said deceased and for paying
expenses of administration,
it is necessary to sell the reversionary interest of
said dower.
It is ordered by the court that said reversionary interest be sold
after being advertised
once a week for four weeks in the public gazette in the
county.
Page 374
Petition at the April
Term of this court of WJ Ross, guardian of JH Ross,
deceased, praying
for leave to sell the land of said deceased for the purpose of
paying debts and for
distribution; ordered by the court that the said guardian
be granted leave to
sell the following described land - 123 acres of lot of land
#217 in the 17th and
1st section, it being all of said lot south of the creek
running through said
lot, and two acres more or less extending to old cross
fence, also seven
acres of Lot 216 in the 17th and 1st, lying south of the creek
running east to spring
branch, thence southeast to a post oak thence same
direction to original
corner of land #216 and #217, thence west to the beginning
corner at creek.
Page 375
Court of Ordinary
- June Term 1901
Warrant of appraisement
issued to JW Jones, WA Jackson, GJ Duckett, Robert Erwin
and J. Duckworth to
appraise the estate of Merida Davis, deceased.
This June 3,
1901
Page 376
Union Court of Ordinary
- July Term 1901
Application of FM
Duckworth, administrator of the estate of Merida Davis,
deceased, asking for
leave to sell land belonging to said deceased. - Ordered
citation issue and
be published. July 1, 1901
Page 377
Union Court of Ordinary
- In chambers
For and in consideration
of the benefits to be derived by the public, by
building and operating
telephone lines in the county of Union, State of Georgia,
it is hereby ordered
that the privilege and right to build, erect and operate
long or short distance
telephone lines over and along the public roads of said
county is hereby granted
to the Cherokee Telephone Company, a corporation doing
business under and
by virtue of a charter granted said company by the State of
North Carolina, provided
said telephone company shall at all times exercise due
regard for the welfare
of travel over and along said public roads and shall not
erect poles or place
wires so as to hinder, intercept or delay travel along said
roads; provided further
if the said telephone company shall fail or refuse to
build, equip and have
ready for use, a telephone line from the Town of
Blairsville, Union
County, Georgia to Murphy, NC, or to some other point or
place on a railroad
having telegraph facilities by the 1st day of January 1902,
the rights and privileges
herein granted shall be null an void; but if the said
telephone company
shall complete said telephone line within the time mentioned,
it shall have and
enjoy the rights and privileges herein granted for the period
provided by the Statutes
of this state in such cases. This
July 6, 1901. John
T. Colwell, Ordinary
Page 378
In vacation
Application of Mathew
J. Ingram for temporary Letters of Administration upon the
property of David
L. Mauldin, deceased - Ordered that temporary Letters
Administration issue
upon his giving bond in the sum of $800 and taking the
usual oath.
July 8, 1901
Oath of above.
July 8, 1901
Page 379
In vacation
It being made to appear
to the court by petition of the citizens of Gaddistown
District that there
is a case of smallpox in Fannin County, about two miles from
the county line and
that it is liable to spread in this county, it is therefore
ordered by the court
that all that part of Fannin County joining this county in
Gaddistown and Coopers
Creek districts be and is hereby quarantined for the
space of thirty days
from date and no person shall be allowed to come into this
county from that part
of Fannin for and during said time under penalty of the
law.
This 31st day August 1901
John T. Colwell, Ordinary
Page 380
Union Court of Ordinary
- August Term 1901
FM Duckworth, administrator
of the estate of Merida Davis, decd., leave to sell
land - Ordered that
leave be granted to sell the following land of said estate
to wit - parts of
Lots #90 and 92 in the 16th and 1st, containing 170 acres more
or less, all of said
lots except thirty acres on the southeast corner of Lot
#90, aid thirty acres
belonging to Kimsey Cook. August
5, 1901
Petition of Judge
Stephens et al, asking that the private way beginning on the
public road near NB
Hill’s residence running north and northeast on the line of
said Hill and Nim
Allen et al, and intersecting with Antioch Road near Grant
Self’s,
be declared a public road under Section 682 of the code.
Filed in
office to be heard
at September Term of this court.
This August 5, 1901
Page 381
blank
Page 382
Union Court of Ordinary
- September Term 1901
Judge Stephens et
al vs Nim Allen
Petition of Judge
Stephens et al at the August Term of court asking that a
certain private way
running by Nim Allen’s house be declared a public road - and
now at this term of
the court, Nim Allen files a counter petition.
Now at this
term of court, Judge
Stephens, petitioner, withdraws his petition; wherefore it
is ordered by the
court that Judge Stephens, et al, petitioners, pay $1.75 cost
of this proceeding
to date. This 2nd September
1901
Page 383
In vacation - Sitting
for County purposes
Tax assessments outlined.
Page 384
Petition of Mary C.
Rider for Twelve Months Support out of the estate of Mose
Rider, deceased, for
herself and two minor children. Ordered
that Jeremiah
Rich, JY Walker, William
Curtis, Rufus Duncan and Joab Crawford be appointed
appraisers to set
up a year’s support out of the estate of Mose Rider, deceased.
August
15, 1901
Petition of Mary E.
Wimpy for Twelve Months Support from the estate of Jehu
Wimpy, deceased.
Ordered that John W. Jones, WA Jackson, KC Davis, FJ Collins
and WJ Miller be appointed
appraisers to set up same. August
29, 1901
Petition of JY Walker
for Temporary Letters of Administration upon the estate of
Mose Rider, deceased
- Ordered that same be issued upon subscribing the usual
oath and giving bond
of $600. September 25, 1901
Page 385
Petition of MJ Ingram
for Permanent Letters of Administration on the estate of
David L. Mauldin,
decd. - Citation issued and
ordered published and hearing set
for the 1st Monday
in November 1901. September
25, 1901
We, AJ Rogers, principal
and (blank) security are held and firmly bound unto
John Colwell, Ordinary
.... in sum of $550 for which payment of sum to Ordinary,
bind ourselves, etc....This
4th day November 1901
The
condition of the bond is for a contract for the county to build a bridge
across the Notly River
at the Akins Ford, the said AJ Rogers being the lowest
bid and was awarded
to him for $271. Now if the
said AJ Rogers shall build said
bridge in good workman
style and according to the plan and specifications hereto
attached, then this
obligation shall be void. S/
AJ Rogers, EG Wellborn,
Thomas Duncan, John
A. Calwell Recorded
November 8, 1901 by SY Jarrett, CCO
Page 386
Union Court of Ordinary
- October Term 1901
Petition of FE Conley
asking for letters of administration on the estate of Mary
Rhoads, decd. - ordered
that citation issue and be published and case heard in
my office the 1st
Monday in November 1901. This
October 7, 1901
Petition of JY Walker
for Permanent Letters Administration on the estate of Mose
Rider, deceased.
Ordered citation issue and be published and case heard in my
office on the 1st
Monday in November 1901. This
October 7, 1901
Application of Mary
C. Rider for Year’s Support for herself and two minor
children of Mose Rider,
deceased - Case continued until next regular court in
course.
October 7, 1901
Page 387
Union Court of Ordinary
- October Term 1901
Specifications of
contract to build Bridge at Akins Ford.
Page 388
Mary Rider application
for Year’s Support - Ordered that the year’s support
set
up by the appraisers
be made the judgment of the court and admitted to record.
November 4, 1901
Letters Administration
issued to JY Walker on estate of Mose Rider, deceased, he
giving bond of $1200,
and taking prescribed oath. November
4, 1901
Page 389
Union Court of Ordinary
- November Term 1901
Application for Letters
Administration by FC Conley on estate of Mary Rhoads,
decd.
Ordered that James L. Elliott be issued Permanent Administrator
upon said
estate, giving bond
of $500 and usual oath. November
4, 1901
MJ Ingram - Application
to be appointed permanent administrator upon the estate
of David L. Maulden,
deceased - Ordered Permanent Letters Administration issue
upon taking oath and
giving bond of $1800. November
4, 1901
Petition of James
L. Elliott, administrator of Mary Rhoads, shows that it is
necessary for the
payment of debts to sell land of said deceased.
Ordered
citation issue and
published. November 4, 1901
Page 390
Application of William
Davis, Administrator upon estate of George W. Davis,
deceased, requesting
leave to sell all the land belonging to said estate.
Ordered that citation
be issued and published. This
November 4, 1901
Petition of JV Lance,
et al, asking for an election on the stock law in Ivy Log
District.
Let citation issue and be published and be heard on the 27th day
of
November 1901.
November 4, 1901
Page 391
Union Court Ordinary
- November Term 1901
Application of MJ
Ingram, Administrator of DL Maulden, decd. for leave to sell
the perishable property
of said estate. Ordered and
granted. November 4, 1901
Application of JY
Walker Administrator of estate of Mose Rider, deceased, for
leave to sell perishable
property. Granted upon his
giving ten days notice on
the courthouse door
and at two public places in the county.
November 4, 1901
Page 392
Court of Ordinary
- In Vacation
Application of JV
Lance, et al, for an election in Ivy Log District on the stock
law, filed at the
November Term of court, and it appears that citation and
posting has been made
and no objections filed, it is ordered that there be an
election held in said
Ivy Log District on the 18th day of December 1901.
November 27, 1901
Page 393
Union Court of Ordinary
- December Term 1901
Petition of James
L. Elliott, administrator of the estate of Mary Rhoads,
deceased, requesting
leave to sell lands - ordered that said leave be granted to
sell the following
described land to wit: parts
of lots of land #71 and #72 in
the 9th and 1st, Union
County, containing 100 acres more or less, it being all
the land owned by
the said Mary Rhoads at the time of her death and the land
whereon she resided
at the time of her death.
Page 394
Application at the
November Term of this court of William Davis, Admr. of the
estate of George Davis,
deceased, requesting leave to sell the land belonging to
said deceased - ordered
leave granted. December 2,
1901
(Next page is number
395, and begins the January Term of court, 1902)
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