Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Big Harriet, Cesar, Julia, Reuben, Edmund, Smith, and Marinda named in Thomas Thompson's estate

This post is part of an ongoing project to record names of enslaved people of Greene County, Georgia I find in historical records. 

This receipt is included among the probate estate documents for Thomas Thompson of Greene County, Georgia, who died in June 1856.

Received this December the twenty-sixth of Dec eighteen hundred and fifty-six of Samuel H. Thompson and Henry E. Thompson, Administrators on the Estate of Thomas Thompson, late of said County, deceased, as Guardian for Lavina Catchings, Elizabeth Catchings, and Lucy Catchings, the following negroes by name: Big Harriet and her two children Cesar and Julia, Reuben a boy, Edmund a boy, Smith a boy, and Marinda a woman, as my full distributive share of the negroes of said estate.

J. W. T. Catchings, guardian

Reference

Union Point, Greene County, Georgia, Probate Estate Case Files 1790–1943, image 757, FamilySearch. 

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