Estates of
Jesse and Mary Wofford
Spartanburg County Estates, # 2226 Frames 414 -469, Jesse
Wofford, SP72 [Transcribed from a microfilmed copy
available at the South Carolina State Archives by Laurel
T. Baty.]
South
Carolina
Spartanburgh District
Jesse
Woffords Last Will & Testament
In
the name of God amen.
I
leave to my wife Mary Wofford all my real & personal
Estate during her life or widowhood only such part as is
to be distributed to the children as they become of age
each one negro & horse & such other property as
she can spare all to be valued by two men and a Book to
be kept so that each one shall have equal if she should decease or
marry before all the children become of age the negroes to
be hired out annually & the land to be rented &
mills also annually for the support & education of
the children & when the youngest one becomes of age
then all to be divided by valuation as before mentioned. If
she should marry she shall have a woman by the name of
Hanner (sic) and her children & a negro Boy by the
name of Alford During her life then to be divided as
before mentioned amongst her children. They shall
be bound for the forthcoming of that property at her decease
if she should have any more property to give to the children as
they become of age each one to have equal as before
mentioned & if she should decease or marry before
the children should become of age all that is not of age
shall choose a gardeen (sic) to act for them--& to
live with them. I wish the churches money that is in my hands
to be payed (sic) to the commitioner (sic) in Equity as
soon as she can without injury to my estate within one
or two or three or four years by paying the interest
annual to the trustees & taking ??
In
witness whereof I set my hand and seal this the 12 June
1834
Jesse
Wofford (Seal)
Jared
Drummond
Jacob H.
Hastin
Warren
Drummond
[Recorded in Will Book C page 78, Box 33 Package 6,
recorded March 2, 1835]
South
Carolina
Spartanburgh District
By
Wm. Scrivenier (??)
Whereas
Polly Wofford hath applied to me for Probate of the Will of Jesse
Wofford deceased. These are therefore to cite and
admonish all and singular the kindred and legatees of
the said deceased, to appear before me, at our Court of
Ordinary to be holden at Spartanburgh Court House, on
the first Monday of March next, to shew cause, if any,
why the said Will should not be proven, and the said Polly
Wofford qualified as the Admr’x with the will annexed.
Given under
my Hand and Seal, this 2nd day of February 1835
Wm.
Scrivenier, O. S. D. [Seal]
On
Reverse:
The within
Citation was Read publickly (sic) in the Congregation at the
Green Pond this day of Feb. 22nd 1835
Elias
Rogers
In
this book may be found the property valued to Mary
Wofford’s children as they become of age.
South
Carolina Spartanburg Dist Sept. 14th 1834.
The
following is property valued to Mary Wofford’s children as they
become of age by Jared & Warren Drummond.
Sept.
14th 1834 Wade H. Wofford
One Negro
boy Ned $300
One Horse
$70
One Negro
girl $125
Total --
$495
August 19,
1837 Hosea Wofford
One Negro
Boy John $270
One horse
$75
One Negro
girl Laura $135
Total --
$480
July 21,
1838 James Wofford
One Negro
boy Steven $270
One horse
$68
One Negro
boy $260
Total --
$598
Nov. 15,
1839 Elias Wofford
One Negro
boy Tony $275
One horse
$40
One Negro
girl $210
Total
$525
Oct. 24,
1842 Thomas Wofford
One Negro
boy Edmund $345
One horse
$68
One Negro
boy George $155
Total
$568
October 24,
1842 Elvira Wofford
One Negro
girl Phebe $280
One horse
$40
One Negro
boy Sampson $130
Total
$450
August 22,
1844 Partheny Wofford
One Negro
girl Susan $300
One sorrel
mare $40
One Negro
boy John $190
Total
$530
April 10,
1845 Jesse Wofford
One Negro
boy $410
One Negro
boy Hiram $245
One horse
$60
Total --
$715
April 10,
1845 Eliza P. Wofford
One Negro
girl $280
One horse
$45
One Negro
boy Jerry $195
Total --
$520
Oct. 6,
1847 Jeffison (sic) Wofford
One Negro
boy 4320
One Negro
boy Nelson $75
One sorrel
mare $50
Total --
$445
Nov. 5,
1849 Ira Wofford
One Negro
girl Fanny $445
One Negro
boy Lewis $320
One black
filly
$780
Feb. 10,
1851 Martha Ann Wofford
One girl
Jane $490
One Negro
boy Miles $195
One grey
mare $50
Total
$735
Nov. 4,
1853 Benjamin Wofford
One Negro
Boy $390
One Negro
Girl $175
One horse
$65
Total
$620
South
Carolina
Spartanburg Dist.
An
Inventory of the goods & chattels and personal
estate of Jesse Wofford dec’d.
One negro
man David at $600
Philip
$600
Joe
$550
Caniday
$500
One woman
named Edy & 3 children Stephen, Toney & Jerry $900
Eliza &
two children Washington & Edmund $900
Tabby &
five children Sarah, John, Mary, Zandal & Susannah $1300
Hannah
& two children Phebe & Fanncy $700
One girl
Milley $300
One bed
& furniture $0
Ditto
30
Ditto
25
Ditto
25
Ditto
12
Ditto
15
Ditto
10
One small
bed 2
One lot of
boxes, chairs, wagon hub &c 6
One side
board & furniture 45
One buroe
(sic) & looking glass 20
One clock
12
Total
$6,627.00
One
cupboard and furniture 30
One chest
4
Eight
counterpins 28
One lot of
counterpins, table cloths, tylets cloth (?) 10
Two trunks
5
One cradle
& umbrella 1.50
One lot of
knives and forks paper spectacles razors ?? 7
One lot of
spoons locks buttons pins &c 7
One small
table cloth 1.50
One lot
chairs 5.50
One shot
gun pouch &c 10
One folding
table half ?? cloth 19
One lot of
barrels molasses jugs nails &c 15
One lot of
barrels flour hogs lard spun yarn &c 39
On
lot of plains auger and chisel 5
One table 3
jars & 1 pan 2
1
pair waffle irons 2 pans & coffee mill 2
1
lot tinware pater dish & plates crockery &c
5
One loom 4
pair harness and 8 sleys 10
One table
& two tray 1.50
4
jars 1.00
1
lot of casting Baker oven tea kettle &c 2.00
3
pots racks hooks 4 ?? 9.00
2
pots 4.00
5
pails & tub 1.50
Total
223.50
One lot of
leather 2.00
1
lot of books 5.00
4
spinning wheels & reel, 1 churn, pair cards &c
5.75
1
grind stone 3.00
1
lot of bacon & supposed to be 1498 lbs at 12 ½ ct
per lb 187.25
1
lot of barrels & flour wheel 2.00
1
lot of soap 7.50
4
raw hides at 1.50 pr hide 6.00
1
lot of picked cotton 16.25
1
lot of barrels, tubs, boxes and peas 5.00
3
scythes & cradles 3.00
3
bushels of wheat 3.00
1
lot of barrels 1.00
1
set of blacksmith tools 17.00
1
lot of plows, stocks &c 9.25
1
lot of iron & drawing knife 3.00
1
load wagon & harness 50.00
1
carryall wagon 60.00
1
lot of corn supposed to be 60 barrels 180.00
1
log way 1.00
1
lots hoes 1.00
1
lot of mattocks 5.00
1
lot of axes 4.50
1
lot of fodder 12.00
1
lot of oats 25.00
1
lot of hogs 15.00
1
lot of sows & pigs 15.00
1
sorrel mare 55.00
1
bay mare 50
1
sorrel horse 65.00
1
Bay horse 30.00
1
Bay Horse 75.00
1
Bay colt 30.00
Total
953.50
[Several more pages of accounts owed follow.]
We
the undersigned named appraisers return this to Polly
Wofford Admr’x of Jesse Wofford Dec’d as a true appraise
Bill of the Personal Estate of sd Dec’d this March the
10th 1835
Philip
Brewton
Nathaniel Wofford
Jared
Drummond
J.
M. Bradley
The State
of South Carolina
Spartanburg District
To
R. Bowden, Ordinary
The humble
petition of the undersigned petitioners respectfully showeth
that Jesse Wofford Late of the aforesaid state & district
during his lifetime executed his last Will and Testament
which has since been proven in your court by which he
gave a life estate in certain property to his wife Mary
Wofford who has since died & left the Estate subject
to Admr your petitioners therefore prays your court for
letters of Admr on the same this 11th Feby 1856
W.
H. Wofford
James P.
Wofford
Annual
Return of W. H. & J. P. Wofford Adm’rs of Jesse Wofford
Dec’d
Filed May
3, 1858 [Recorded Book C, page 600]
1858 Anl
Return of W. H. & J. P. Wofford Adm’r of Jesse Wofford dec’d
Paid Out
1858
Graves
stones 19.00
Frait (sic)
on graves 3.82
Graves
stones for A. J. Wofford 8.10
R.
Bowden 14.00
Total
44.92
The
foregoing return sworn to and subscribed before me on May 3,
1858
Jno. Earle
Boman, O. S. D.
J.
P. Wofford
[The
following is a clipping from a Newspaper contained in the lengthy
probate files of Jesse and Mary Wofford.]
STATE OF
SOUTH CAROLINA
SPARTANBURG DISTRICT
IN
THE COURT OF ORDINARY
Citation to Settlement.
Wade H.
Wofford, J. P. Wofford Admr’s, Applicants vs. Hosea Wofford, Elias
Wofford et al defendants.
It
appearing to my satisfaction, that Hosea Wofford, Elias
Wofford, Jesse Wofford, Ralph Wrigh and wife Elvira,
John Tillotson and wife Elsea, A. Thomas and wife
Martha, and Oshello Thomas, son of Parthena Thomas,
deceased, heirs at law of Jesse Wofford, deceased, and
Mary Wofford, deceased, reside from and without the limits of
this State: It is ordered, that they be and appear, at the
Court of Ordinary, to be holden at Spartanburg Court
House, for Spartanburg District, on the 3d day of May
next, to show cause, if any they can, why the estates of
said Jesse Wofford and Mary Wofford, deceased, should
not be finally settled, or their consent to the same will be
entered of record.
Given under
my hand and seal of Office, this February 1st,
1858. Jno. Earle Bomar.
Final
Settlement of the Estate of Jesse Wofford dec’d. Made May 3,
1858. Parties cited—Jas. P. Wofford & W. H.
Wofford, Adm’rs
1856 Nov.
13 Admrs. Dv To amt of Sale Bill $4183.00
Int. to
3rd May 1858 $406.68
Total
$4589.68
1858 May 3
Deduct amt pd as pr return $44.92
Total
4545.76
Deduct to
pay Carr’r & Trimmel for Citation to Settlement $4.00
Total
$4541.76
Deduct to
pay Inv Earle Bower $6.00
Total
$4535.76
Deduct
Conv. 2 ½ pr ct on amt rec’d $114.73
Deduct
Conv. 2 ½ Pr ct. on amt pd out $1.47
Deduct
Conv. 2 ½ pr ct 10/12 of ?? 94.49
$210.69
Total
$4325.07
Amount of
Advancements leaving out Jefferson Wofford who has died without
issue
$7,016
There being
12 Legatees the share each is 1/12 $11,341.07
$945.08
Wade H.
Wofford’s share $945.08
Deduct
advancement $495
Due Wade H.
Wofford $450.08
Hosea
Wofford’s share $945.08
Deduct
Advancement $480.00
Due Hosea
Wofford $465.08
Jas. P.
Wofford’s share $945.08
Deduct
Advancements $398.00
Due Jas. P.
Wofford $347.08
Elias
Wofford’s share $945.08
Deduct
advancements 325.00
Due Elias
Wofford $420.08
Thomas
Wofford’s share $945.08
Deduct
advancements 568.00
Due Thomas
Wofford $377.08
Elvira
Wofford’s share $945.08
Deduct
advancements 450.00
Due Elvira
Wofford $495.08
Parthena Wofford’s share $945.08
Deduct
advancements $530.00
Due
Parthena Wofford $415.08
Jesse
Wofford’s share $945.08
Deduct
advancements $715.0
Due Jesse
Wofford $230.08
Eliza P.
Wofford’s share $945.08
Deduct
advancements $320.00
Due Eliza
P. Wofford $25.08
Ira
Wofford’s share $945.08
Deduct
advancements $780.00
Due Ira
Wofford $165.08
Martha Ann
Wofford’s share $945.08
Deduct
advancements $735.00
Due Martha
Ann Wofford $210.08
Benjamin Wofford’s share $945.08
Deduct
advancements $620.00
Due Benj.
Wofford $325.08
It
is ordered and decreed that the Admr’s of Jesse Wofford
dec’d pay to each of the Legatees of said dec’d the
amounts severally annexed to their names in the above
settlement with interest from this date—May 3, 1858
Jno. Earle
Bomar
The Estate
of Mary Wofford is file #2573, Frames 0014 -058, SP87. It
contains an inventory and sale of the property of Mary
Wofford very similar to the above inventory for Jesse
Wofford. I believe that Wade H. Wofford may have
left South Carolina by January 1858 due to the following
document:
South
Carolina
Spartanburg District
To
the Ordinary of said District
The humble
petition of J. P. Wofford of Mary Wofford dec’d showeth
Hat the
estate of his intestate is now ready for settlement, he therefore
prays that the parties in interest to wit, Wade H. Wofford,
Hosea Wofford, Elias Wofford, Jessse Wofford, Ralph
Wright and wife Elvira, John Tollotson and wife Elsea,
Orthello Thomas, son and heir at law of Parthena Thomas,
dec’d, A. Thomas and wife Martha who reside from without
the limits of this state and Thomas Wofford, Ira Wofford
& Benjamin Wofford may be cited before this court and
settlement had, and as in duty bound he will ever pray &c.
Jany 29,
1858.
J.
P. Wofford.
Wade H.
Wofford’s signature no longer appears on the documents form
1858. No receipts signed by any of the heirs are
in the files.
I
have been unable to find Wade H. Wofford in the 1850
Census, although he appears to be living in Spartanburg
in 1856. Here is his mother Polly Wofford in 1840 and
1850:
1840
Spartanburg Co., SC p. 86
Mary
Wofford
01212
0022001
1
male 5-10[Benjamin], 2 males 10-15[Jefferson & Ira],
1 male 15-20 [Jesse?], 2 males 20-30 [Wade & James
P.? ], 2 females 10-15 [Martha Ann & Eliza?], 2
females 15--20 [Parthenia & Elvira] 1 female
40-50[Mary]
1840
Chickasaw Co., MS p. 64
E.
J. Wofford: 2 males under 5, 3 males 20-30 [Hosea, Elias
and ?], 1 female 20-30
1850
Spartanburg, SC p. 146
#873 Polly
Warford 54
Jefferson 22 [Came of age Oct. 6, 1847, dies before
1856]
Ann 21
[Martha Ann comes of age Feb. 10, 1851]
Benjamin 18 [Comes of age Nov. 4, 1853]
#
876 William Warford 33 [Who is this?]
Martha
30
Albert
8
Alvira
6
1850
Spartanburg, SC p. 145
#869 Ralph
Right 33
Elvira
26
M.
A. 6 male
Q.
A. 4 (male)
Comodore 4 (male)
R.
F. 3 (male)
C.
C. 32 (female)
1850
Spartanburg, SC p. 98
James
Wofford 53 (should be 33?) SC
Margaret 33 SC
Nancy
Vaughn 67 SC
Thomas
Wofford 12 SC
Jesse 8
SC
Calvin 6
Sc
Mary 4
Sc
Augusta 2
SC
1850
Western Division, Chickasaw Co., MS p. 403
Hosey
Wofford 34
Sarah
28
Jesse 7
Abiah 6
Mary F.
4
Martha C.
2
Olivia J.
3/12
1850
Western Division, Chickasaw Co., MS p. 404
Elias J.
Wofford 33 SC
Delia 31
SC
Maland 12
SC
William 10
SC
John 6
MS
Leand 4
(female) MS
Olive S. 2
(female) MS
By
1860 Wade Wofford and wife Nancy Rogers Wofford are
living in Bartow (Cass) County Georgia. They have
two children who should appear in the 1850 Census: James
O. born in 1845 and Martha A. born in 1847:
1860
Georgia Militia District 828, Cass County, Georgia p. 844
Wade H.
Wofford 45 SC
Nancy 36
SC
James O. 15
male SC
Martha A.
13 female SC
Parthenia G. female 9 GA
Joseph 7
male GA
A.
W. 3 female GA
Sarah 2/12
GA [Would fit Lillie being born in April 1860]
1870 Dist 5
Bartow Co., GA p. 398
Wofford,
Wade H. 55 SC
Nancy S. 45
SC
Mattie 21
GA
Joseph 15
GA
Adora 12
GA
Carrie L.
10 GA
Lula 8
SC
1880
Stilsboro, 851 District, Bartow Co., GA p. 449B
#149/157 Wofford, W. H. 65 SC, SC, SC
N.
S. 58 SC, SC. SC
M.
A. 32 SC, SC, SC
Leoline 18
SC, SC, SC
Lou A. 16
GA, GA, GA
I
have been unable to locate a death record for Wade
Wofford or his wife Nancy Rogers Wofford. The last
mention of him is in a Bartow County Newspaper in
1884. His wife Nancy appears to live at least until
the early 1890s, based again on a mention in the Bartow County
newspaper. I would like to find a marriage record for Wade H.
Wofford and Nancy S. Rogers as well as a record of their
deaths (cemetery, bible record or obituary).
I
am a descendant of Lillie Wofford, daughter of Wade and
Nancy Wofford, who married Charles W. Baker in 1884:
From
Cartersville American, March 1884
"Talk from
Taylorsville"
Married, at the residence of the bride's parents, on
Thursday eve, at half-past four o'clock C. W. Baker, of
Cedartown, to Miss Lula Wofford, by Rev. J. P.
Jones. Much success to the happy couple.
Birmingham News, April 22, 1938, page 37
Baker--Mrs.
Lillie Wofford Baker, age 78, passed away at the residence, 1609
15th Ct., N., Friday a. m. Survived by 1 son, H. A. Baker; 6
daughters, Louise Pate, Mrs. R. O. Baty, Mrs. A. O.
Tucker, Mrs. C. C. Thomas, Miss Alma and Beulah
Baker. Funeral services from the residence
Saturday 2 p. m. Rev. H. H. Hobbs and Rev. V. H. Hawkins
officiating, Interment Elmwood Cemetery, Brown Service.
Norwood 3-2111 directing. Active pallbearers will
be the nephews and grandsons.
Tombstone at Elmwood reads: Lilly W. Baker Apr. 15, 1860 to
Apr. 23, 1938; death certificate states her parents were
Wade Wofford and Nancy Rogers, both born in South
Carolina.
Laurel
Baty