Wednesday, October 7, 2026

Litha, Rhoda, Terrill, Henry Clay, and Josaphine 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.

Georgia, Greene County. Received this December the twenty-sixth 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, six negroes to wit: Litha and her two children Rhoda and an infant, Terrill a boy, Henry Clay a boy, and Josaphine a girl, as my full distributive share of the negroes of said estate.

This 26th Dec/56

R. M. Thompson

Reference

Union Point, Greene County, Georgia, Probate Estate Case Files 1790–1943, image 749, FamilySearch. 

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