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Wills -- Georgia

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Alston and Glenn family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1262
Scope and Contents This collection contains papers from the Alston and Glenn families of Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. These families were joined by marriage when Jack Glenn married Anne Amanda Alston in 1935. The Alston family papers include correspondence and legal documents pertaining to several generations of Alstons. Correspondence features discussions regarding finances, land plot purchases, education, historical society applications, and legal documents such as wills and estate planning. Also...
Dates: 1612-2017, undated; Majority of material found in 1900-1975
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Alston and Glenn family papers

Atwood family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS14f
Scope and Content

This collection contains several legal instruments of the Atwood family filed in Greene County and Putnam County, Georgia. Included is a marriage indenture (marriage certificate), letters of administration for an estate, a court order naming a guardian for a child, a probate will, and a petition to change trustees of marriage indenture.

Dates: 1850-1867
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Atwood family papers

Troutman and Battey family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1074
Scope and Content

The bulk of the Troutman and Battey family papers are legal documents (many from Floyd Country) generated by those families, including deeds of indenture (many signed by Dr. Robert Battey), wills, and an abstract of title to lands in Floyd County. The collection also contains correspondence, the majority of which was sent to Colonel Hiram Bainbridge Troutman, a book of Minstrel song, and documents pertaining to Atlanta society.

Dates: 1846-1970, undated; Majority of material found within 1846 - 1939
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Troutman and Battey family papers