Transcription of this document provided by Martye Jeffords ( martyejeffords@gmail.com )

Notes from the Administration of the Estate of Daniel A. Mobley

Walton County Ordinary, Monroe, GA

 (The following was enclosed in a letter dated August 25, 1965, sent to Mr. A.C. Mobley of Smithville, GA, from Miss Ruby M. Harvey of Long Beach, CA. A copy of  this correspondence was given to Martye Jeffords by Winnie Davis Mobley. ) 

APPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION: MINUTES 1853 – page 3

Thomas M. and James L. Mobley named as Administrators, they entered into bond $7,000, with Henry C. Mobley, D.J.Mobley and Rutherford Mobley, for the faithful discharge of their duties.  

Daniel A. Mobley was a resident of this county at the time of his death.  Election by widow for dower:  Minutes 1853, p.72, Widow of Daniel A. Mobley , elected to take dower in the real estate of deceased, a year’s support.  Minutes 1853, P.34:  Administrators authorized to pay Temperance Mobley, the widow, $150.00 for support and maintenance of herself and family.

 Returns, Book H, P.328-329:  The estate was kept together and worked during 1854 on order of the Court of Ordinary.  Bills paid included January 3, 1854, $20.00 for coffee (a case).  Included in the appraisers’ schedule of estate property were three notes held against D.J.Mobley, $54.82, marked “Paid” May 2, 1853.  One voucher mentions office fees in granting Letters of Administration December 2, 1852

 One voucher was a promise to pay $47.00 for the hire of Betsy for the year 1852 and agreeing to furnish said negro with two summer and winter suits of clothes, a good blanket, bonnet and pair of shoes, and to return said negro on the day this note falls due, signed by D.A.Mobley, with Thomas M. Mobley as Security on January 1, 1852.  Ret. Book H, Page 330  

Ret. H. Pages 423-425.  Personal property of estate sold Nov. 25, 1853.  Among the purchasers were Mobleys by the name of Rutherford, J.E.D., R.,T. M., C., Temperance, William, J.L., D.L., H.C., John E.D. and T.

 Ret. H. Page 429:  100 acres of land sold to Henry C. Mobley, 1 girl, Winnie, and Mahala, and two children, to Mark Stroud (or Strand) and boy, Sanders, to William Bartell, Total $3,776.  Date of sale, Jan.3, 1854, and referred to as the “land and negroes of the estate”.

 Ret. J. Page 41, a voucher shows $500.00 due Joel C. Broadnax teacher, for tuition in the year 1852. (5 months at $100.00 per month).

 Ret, J. Page 42, Daniel A. Mobley signed a note Feb. 3, 1852 to I. G. Brantley, (whom it is believed was a physician).

 Ret. J. Page 38. Voucher indicating account of Daniel A. Mobley with H. H. Richardson, July 3, 1850, in which is the statement “Paid” son Chapman, in leather, $10.00.  Voucher Page 334 mentions son John.

       Returns, Book K. Pages 476-479. Final Distribution

 Chapman Mobley, Distributee                         $115.70

D.J.                “              “                                    80.07                      

Rutherford     “              “                                    96.66

John E.D.       “              “                                   416.80

William M.    “              “                                    409.07

Temperance Mobley     “                                    123.27 & 150.00

V.L. (?) Smith, Distributee   (note:  husband of Tabitha Mobley)

  In right of his wife                                            283.08                     

Henry C. Mobley           “                                   104.47

Thomas M. Mobley       “                                     80.07

James L. Mobley           “                                     90.79                      

Receipts are signed by the above Mobleys as having received their share of the estate.