Virgil Cummings Estate Inventory and Sale (1843)

Virgil Cummings Estate Inventory and Sale (1843)

contributed by Dick Wood in 2005

Marshall County Inventories of Estates 1837-1847 & 1850 Volume B, pages 30-31

Milton Cummings, Administrator & C

The foregoing is a full and perfect account of sales of all the personal property of Virgil Cummings, dec’d that have come to the hands of the administrator. Sale on the 29th December 1843 —

1 horse James W. Bell $ 20.50
1 Lot Black Smith Tools Thomas P. Adams 55.00
1 Saddle James Stinson 14.50
1 Grindstone John Cummings .75
1 handsaw Do 1.50
1 Drawing Knife Do .25
1 axe Do .81
1 Small table Do 1.75
1 Clock Mary Cummings 5.00
1 Book Do .25
1 axe John McLean 1.31
1 set cast (???) boxes Do .68
1 Lot old plows Do .37
1 Lot sundries Do .50
1 augur Thomas Cummings .25
1 Book Do 1.62
1 chisel Erwin McAdams .18
1 pare steelyards A. G. Conds (???) .50
1 axe Elias Rambo .18
1 Lot sundries Ryon Seaton .25
1 Trunk Do 2.95
4 Horse Shoes J. Hemphew .50
4 Do A. M. Stewart .31
4 Do Do .25
Geography & Atlas John Stinson .75
History of Europe G. W. Cummings 1.37
Do Do .25
Lot of Books H. D. Cummings .50
Grecian History Do .37
Dictionary & lot of steel James Loony 1.62 ½
    $ 115.33

Account of Cash Notes &C

Thomas Cummings   2.15
G. W. Cummings   5.00
W. McCuiston   8.25
James Brown   17.62 ½
A. M. Stewart   4.87 ½
H. A. Hall   2.37 ½
F. P. Stinson   1.95
F. P. Stinson acp. 3.00
    $29.82 ½

Doubtful

John B. Beckham   2.00
D. B. Bells   10.00
John Endsley   1.68
Wm Garret   4.18 ¾
K. Bethum (word not legible) 1.62 ½

Desperate Debts

W. & Charles Beckham   40.00
Gilmore & Mustens   50.00
Jessee McLean   25.00
Bad–   132.76 ¾

Sworn to in open Court March 6th 1843.

Milton Cummings, Admr.

M. W. Oakley Clerk

  1.62 ½
  29.82 ½
  16.00
  115.33
due estate $ 162.78

Settlement of Virgil Cummings Estate

Marshall County Administrators and Executors Settlements Volume A, page 82

STATE OF TENNESSEE)
MARSHALL COUNTY ) County Court Clerks office October 26th 1845

I, Martin W. Oakley, Clerk of the County Court of said county by John Elliott, his deputy Clerk have this day proceeded agreeable to the Act of the Assembly passed December 21st 1841 Directing clerks to make probate Distributions with Insolvent Estates & it appears from the report of Milton Cummings, Administrator of Virgil Cummings, Deceased, Estate is Insolvent and from the returns of all the available funds of Said Estate by Said Administration accounts, so is —                      $162.78

Clerks fees, Bond, Surety & C   $3.50  
filing 4 classes (??)   .50  
this settlement & recording same   .50  
Copy to Administrator   .50  
Printer’s fees No. 1 2.50  
funeral expenses No. 2 5.00  
Note to Commissioners No. 4 9.00  
for bringing sale No. 5 .75  
  No. 6 2.37 & ½  
  No. 3 7.00  
    31.62 & ½ 31.62 & ½
To be distributed 131.15 & ½

The following claims were filed by the Creditors of Virgil Cummings for pro rata distribution, to wit;

Claims   Pro Rata Share
Milton Cummings $42.00 $ 19.32
G. W. Haywood 61.60 28.63
R. Williams 17.39 7.99
  ”   “ 83.60 38.48
Jesse McLean Estate 75.52 34.73
    $129.15
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