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Abbeville County, S.C. Archived Abbeville County Probate Court Wills ~1782 to ~2006 (4) |
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Effective: 25 Feb 2018
The motivation behind this project was to simply preserve Abbeville's archived Probate Wills in a "digital format" -- for fast searching.
On 19-Jul-2013 this project was started by Paul M. Kankula, in partnership with the Anderson County Genealogical Society.
Project Volunteers: Fred & Sue Brewer (ledger imaging). Carolyn Duncan, Barbara Harris, Shirley Phillips, Vicki Cox & Jo Simpson (Name Index typing).
Some ledgers contained Wills that were not listed in the ledger's Handwritten Name Index.
Trying to provide an accurate Name Index that referenced a specific ledger page number, proved to be too difficult.
Every ledger with Handwritten Name Indexes, contained some names that were very difficult to read. ( If you don't find who you are looking for, try referencing the Church of LDS General Entry Indexes. )
(1) = The following ledger reference numbers are basically for our own datafile linking & reference purposes.
(2) = In ~1958, the Church of LDS microfilmed many existing WPA documents and Wills.
(3) = Afterwards the SC Archives & History Department made the WPA transcribed ledgers available on-line.
(4) = Then in ~2006, the Abbeville Probate Court started scanning their Wills directly into their county computer system.
(5) = If you wish a hard-copy of a particular Will, write the Probate Court naming the decedent and the approximate date-of-death. You will receive a cost estimate in reply to your query, IF, you enclose a Letter Size Self Addressed & Stamped Envelope. The Court Charges $0.50 cents per page or side for copies, $1.50 handling & postage. (+$5.00 adder fee for out-of-state requests.)
Abbeville County Probate Court
http://www.abbevillecountysc.com/
901 W. Greenwood Street, Suite 2300, Abbeville, SC 29620
Hours: 8:30am - 5:00pm
( Google Road Map Hyperlink )
Charles Mark Sumner, Judge of Probate
Phone: 864-366-5312, ext. 62 Fax: 864-366-4023
(6) = These noted ledger Wills have been copied on the
type of paper that over time have stuck together.
Unfortunately, we can not scan these stuck together ledger pages.
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PROBATE COURT ARCHIVED WILL WEBSITES |
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Church of Later-day Saints On-line Microfilm Holdings (2) |
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( First determine Will Box # & Packet # using the following General Entry A-Z Name Books. Then use the numbered General Entry Books. )
Combined #2, #3 & #4 General Entry Book
Images of 1782-1958 Original Wills
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SC Department of Archives & History On-line Holdings (3) |
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This hyperlink is for combined
ledgers #1, 2 & 3. ( For: A-L Names ) → Part 1 of 2
( These are handwritten Wills transcribed by the WPA & webpage typed by Paul M. Kankula )
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& 3. ( For: M-Z Names ) → Part 2 of 2
( These are handwritten Wills transcribed by the WPA & webpage typed Paul M. Kankula )
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ABBEVILLE PROBATE COURT ARCHIVED WILL LEDGERS |
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ALPHABETICALLY SORTED LEDGER NAME INDEXES
Note: Ledger Reference #'s in the left-column, will only tell you in what ledger number the individual's Will can be found in. |
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Handwritten Name Index Typewritten Name Index ! See ( These are handwritten Wills transcribed & typed by WPA )
Temporarily reference the above #1-3 ledger hyperlink
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Handwritten Name Index Typewritten Name Index ! See ( These are handwritten Wills transcribed & typed by WPA )
Temporarily reference the above #1-3 ledger hyperlink
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( These are handwritten Wills transcribed & typed by WPA ) |
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COUNTY HISTORY:
The Ninety-Six District was created as an original Judicial District in 1769. It superceded the old County Court System that had been in place since the 1600's. In 1785 the Ninety-Six District was divided into six counties: ABBEVILLE, Edgefield, Laurens, Newberry, Spartanburg & Union. These counties co-existed within the Ninety-Six District and were non-functional (no government). They only served only as geographical divisions until later on. In 1798, all Judicial Districts were abolished and their county divisions became Districts. So at that time, Ninety Six was abolished and ABBEVILLE, Edgefield, Laurens & Newberry became Districts. The Ninety-Six District bordered Georgia on its Western Boundary and was the ancestral home on many early Georgia settlers. Parts of ABBEVILLE later went to form Greenwood (1897) & McCormick (1916) counties.
1670, the first permanent English settlement was made at Albemarle Point (Charles Town).
1713-1719, the SC region separated from NC and became a royal colony. Records were kept in Charleston.
1769, Nine original judicial districts were established, but records were still kept in Charleston until 1780.
1788, SC became a state. The state government was moved from Charleston to Columbia in 1790, although some functions remained at Charleston until after the Civil War.
1860, SC was the first state to secede from the Union.
1868, SC was readmitted to the Union. Districts were now called counties.
1785, Abbeville County & County Court established.
1787-1799, called Abbeville County Court.
1800-1868, called Abbeville Court-of-Ordinary.
1869-YTD, called Abbeville Probate Court.
SC Statute standardized the record keeping practice in the Court-of-Ordinary, requiring the ordinary to record Wills in a separate series of Will Books. Previously, Wills together with other documents pertaining to estates, were transcribed into a series of Estate Record Books. In some counties, the ordinaries transcribed earlier Wills from the Estate Record Books into Will Books. The original wills were always filed in the Estate Papers series. Will Books have been maintained by the Probate Court since the Court-of-Ordinary, was abolished in 1868.
WILL TERMINOLOGY:
Administrator - person appointed or who petitions to administer an estate in an intestate succession. The antiquated English term of administratrix was used to refer to a female but is generally no longer in standard legal usage.
Beneficiary - anyone receiving a gift or benefiting from a trust
Bequest - testamentary gift of personal property, traditionally other than money.
Codicil - (1) amendment to a Will; (2) a Will that modifies or partially revokes an existing or earlier Will.
Decedent - the deceased (U.S. term)
Demonstrative Legacy - a gift of a specific sum of money with a direction that is to be paid out of a particular fund.
Descent - succession to real property.
Devise - testamentary gift of real property.
Devisee - beneficiary of real property under a Will.
Distribution - succession to personal property.
Executor/executrix or Personal Representative (PR) - person named to administer the estate, generally subject to the supervision of the probate court, in accordance with the testator's wishes in the Will. In most cases, the testator Will nominate an executor / PR in the Will unless that person is unable or unwilling to serve.
Inheritor - a beneficiary in a succession, testate or intestate.
Intestate - person who has not created a Will, or who does not have a valid Will at the time of death.
Legacy - testamentary gift of personal property, traditionally of money. Note: historically, a legacy has referred to either a gift of real property or personal property.
Legatee - beneficiary of personal property under a Will, i.e., a person receiving a legacy.
Probate - legal process of settling the estate of a deceased person.
Specific legacy (or specific bequest) - a testamentary gift of a precisely identifiable object.
Testate - person who dies having created a Will before death.
Testator - person who executes or signs a Will; that is, the person whose Will it is. The antiquated English term of Testatrix was used to refer to a female and is still in use in the US
CIVIL RECORD ARCHIVES:
| Birth | Marriage | Death | Census | Land | Probate (7) |
| 1915-YTD | 1911-YTD | 1915-YTD | 1790-YTD | 1873-YTD | 1782-YTD |
(7) = These records include, Wills, Bonds, Petitions, Accounts, Inventories, Administrations, Orders, Decrees & Distributions.
RESEARCHING RESOURCES:
Ancestry.com - SC Probate Records, by Johni Cerny & Gareth L. Mark
Ancestry.com - SC 1787-1855 Index to Abbeville County Wills, requires fee-based Ancestry.com subscription.
Abstracts of Ninety-Six & Abbeville District Wills & Bonds, by Wille Pauline Young, Book contains more than 3,500 abstracts of Wills, Bonds & Administrations between 1774-1860. Click here to view book's Alphabetical Index.
Church of LDS, FamilySearch.org - Abbeville County Resources
SC Death Index Log Files - 1915-1962, Database contains links to all of the Death Index log files from the SC Department of Health & Environmental Control's Division of Vital Records. (The images are compressed in a format that requires a specialized Plug-in for Microsoft Internet Explorer.)
SC Department of Health - Vital Records, For obtaining Birth, Death, Marriage & Divorce records.
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