Chancery Court Case Summary
Owens vs Weeks
Source ID: S0007
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Virginia Memory: Chancery Records Index - 193-1805-005
Case Information
| Jurisdiction: |
Westmoreland County, Virginia |
| Index No.: |
1805-005 |
| Case Filed: |
Jan 1805 |
| Final Decree: |
Jul 1805 |
| Plaintiff(s): |
Fielding Owens, wife Mary, son Windsor |
| Defendant(s): |
Thomas N. Berryman,Administrtator of Benjamin Pope Weeks
John Strother, guardian of William Weeks, dec'd
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Summary and Genealogical Data
- Suit to settle the guardianship account of William Emerson/Edmondson Weeks, dec'd
- Benjamin Pope Weeks died intestate before August 1802, leaving wife Mary and infant son William Emerson/Edmondson Weeks
- Thomas Newton Berryman was named administrator of Benjamin Pope Weeks estate
- John Strother was named guardian of William Emerson/Edmondson Weeks
- Widow Mary remarried with Fielding Owens and they had son Windsor Smith Owens
- Infant William Emerson Weeks died in 1804 and plaintiffs wish to have his estate distributed to his mother and half-brother
Summary created by Keith Dishman, Johns Creek, GA on 23 May 2024