Posted on: Clarke County Wills Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/ClarkeWill?read=15 Surname: WILLOUGHBY, DURHAM, LOWE, ATKINSON, WHITE, BLAKELY, PYRON ------------------------- Returns on the Estate of the minors of Ellis Willoughby, son of William Willoughby and Jerusha Jones Willoughby. Clark County, Georgia Clark County, Georgia Marriage Records documents the marriage of Ellis Willoughby and Elizabeth Durham on 31 Dec 1829. No Estate Papers are found for Ellis. Upon his death, Circa 1841, his brother David was called upon to be guardian of five known minors. Ruth, Susan, Martha L, Nancy, and Mary Ann, are listed as children of Ellis Willoughby in Returns beginning in 1842. His wife Elizabeth is not mentioned. The returns show that David boarded the minors with friends and/or relatives. This was a common practice at the time. The returns also show that the boarders were reimbursed for their care. The Returns further show that Ruth Willoughby married Burkett Atkinson, and that Josian Pyron of Pike County became the legal guardian of Nancy and Mary Ann Willoughby around 1854. These two girls had lived with the Pyrons in Pike County for several years. Josiah was the husband of Elizabeth Willoughby, who was one of the sisters of Ellis and David Willoughby. Josiah and Elizabeth married in Green County, Georgia in 1833. Returns of the Estate of the minors of Eillis Willoughby, Deceased Recorded in Book J. Volume 255, for the year 1842-43 reads as follows: 1. paid the Clerk for letters of Guardianship 2.12 2. paid Sarah White Tuition 9.12 3. paid Thomas Lowe for Board for 1843 30.00 4. paid Samuel Blakely for Board 1843 30.00 5. paid (Unreadable) Reynolds for Board for 1842 and 1843. 50.00 6. paid N. W. Smith for Tuition 1843 17.75 7. paid JH Lowe for clothing $179.00 paid the expenses of two of Children to Meriwether County 5.00 $184.00 8. paid A. M . Durham for Board for 1843 30.00 $214.00 Sworn to in Court May 1844 A.M. Jackson Signed: David Willoughby Examined, approved and ordered to be Recorded Mary Term 1844, Clark County Probate Court, Clark County, Georgia. Return on the Estate....recorded March Term, 1850 paid Josiah Pyron (husband of Elizabeth Willoughby-sister of David and Ellis)for board of Nancy and Mary Williby for 1846 and 1847 It appearing to the court that Josiah Pyron of Pike County, Georgia, has been duly appointed guardian for the persons and property of Nancy Willoughby and Mary Ann Willoughby, minors and heirs of Ellis Willoughby, deceased, said minors having arrived at sufficient age to chose their own guardian and having made choice of said Pyron-It is ordered by the court that David Willoughby, former guardian of said minors, be discharged from making further returns to the court as their guardian. ( hand written and not dated) A Return on the Estate of Susan and Rutha Williby minors, by David Willoughby, Guardian 1. paid tax for 1852 2.08 paid tax for 1853 2.06 2. Cash furnished the girls to go to Pike county in July 1854 40.00 3. paid E H Maxey for Rutha for goods bought from him 2.45 4. paid John H Lowe Store for Rutha 45.74 5. paid tax for 1854 3.30 cash furnished Susan to go to Pike 20.00 Examined and sworn to before me this 2 Apr 1855 A.M. Jackson, Ordinary signed: David Williby (in his hand writing -Willoughby spelled “Williby.) RECEIVED of David Willoughby, my guardian, fifth dollars in part of m distribution share of the Estate of Ellis Willoughby, my father on 12 July 1856 Martha L. Willoughby By Thomas. Lowe RECEIVED of David Willoughby, guardian, six hundred and ten dollars in part of my estate in his hand as guardian of aforesaid 20 July 1857 Susan M Willoughby $300.00 Recieved of David Willoughby, Guardian of my wife Rutha, formerly Rutha Willoughby, as part of the estate coming to me from said guardian in right of my said wife. Witness my hand and sworn this 18 day of December 1856. Burket Atkinson