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Note: orgia. Listed in the household with Espy is Maude Childers a 17 year old, black "servant." Espy is in household #420. In household #418 is Dolphus Hancock, wife Emma and six children; in #419 is Thomas Strembridge and wife Nancy; in #421 is Reuben Wright and wife Mary (2nd wife) and daughters Lilius and Olie May; in #422 is James Hancock, wife Bettie and children Willie, Pearl, Linda and Gender. (Pearl is my grandmother. JRH.) Epsy/Epsey Hancock was one of the "Widows Entitled to Pensions" as listed in the CRAWFORD COUNTY NEWS on June 4, 1909. The entry reads: "Hancock, Epsy, Husband: J. C. Married: Oct. 10 1867; Co. F. 57 Ga. Res. Enlisted: 1861 at Macon, Ga. Discharged: 1865, Greensboro, N.C.. J. H. Joyner, Witness (for pension application.) The above date of marriage, Oct. 10, 1867, differs from the date recorded on the family page, Mar. 7, 1867 as found in MARRIAGE RECORDS OF CRAWFORD COUNTY, GEORGIA 1823-1899, compiled by William R. Henry, p.98. After the death of his father, John C. Hancock was appointed executor of the estate and evidently inherited or bought the Clement Hancock farm. After John's death, the farm became Epsy's and she deeded some of the Clement Hancock farm to Sarah Hancock Scarborough, Clement's daughter; some to my great grandfather James M. Hancock, son of Henry Hancock, Clement's son; and some to Rodolphus (Dolphus) Hancock, son of Wilborn Hancock, Clement's son. The following is a copy of Epsy A. Hancock's will from CRAWFORD COUNTY WILL BOOK C - 1894-1948, pp 82-83, on Filmstrip #3725 at Washington Library, Macon, Georgia: "Georgia Crawford County. In the name of God Amen: I Epsy A. Hancock, of said County, and State, Being of sound mind and disposing memory do make declare and publish this my last Will and testament, hereby revoking all other Wills heretofore made by me. Item: 1) After my death, I desire Christian burial suitable to my circumstances in my life. Item, (") I give and bequith to Maud Warren, the home place, I now reside on, containing 25 acres more or less, bounded as follows: North and East by Public Road, leading to Macon, Ga? and Wilson Estate, South by Macon and Columbus Road, West by J. M Hancock, and Jack Hancock, also all of my household and kitchen furniture, I desire that the remainder of my lands be sold, at public or private sale, as my Executor hereinafter named may see and deem best, and the proceeds arrived from said sale be paid or equally devided between Mrs. Emma V. Hancock, J.M. Hancock, and R. E. Wright. Item (3) I nominate and appoint R. J. Hancock, as my sole Executor, of this my last Will and testament, relieving him of making any Inventory and Returns to the Court of Ordinary, or any other Court, leaving every thing to his best judgement. Signed sealed and published this 16th, day of March 1911. Epsy A. Hancock. Seal) Signed sealed and published in our presence, as subscribing witnesses of last Will and Testament of Epsy A. Hancock, at the special instance and request of testarix she signing in our presence and we signing in her presence, and in the presence of each other, This 16th, day of March 1911. R. J. Hancock, R. M. Hamlin, James Z. Smith, NOTE: I have typed the transcript of the will as it is, with the several typing errors and misspelled words. jrh The heirs named in Epsy's will were Emma Viera Gray Hancock, niece of Epsy and wife of Rodolphus Jerome (R.J.) Hancock; J. M. Hancock was James Madison Hancock, son of Henry H. Hancock who was killed during the War Between the States; and R. E. Wright was Reuben E. Wright nephew of Epsy and also son-in-law of James Madison Hancock. Maud Warren was Epsy's black servant and friend. Epsy Ann Gray was a sister of Nancy Gray who married Lewis W. Wright. Lewis and Nancy were the parents of Reuben E. Wright who married (1) Carrie Orline Hancock, oldest daughter of James Madison and Betty Thomason Hancock. Emma Viera Gray was daughter of Epsy's brother, Seaborn A. Gray who married Elizabeth Bowers. Rodolphus (Dolphus) Hancock was the son of Wilborn Hancock who was a younger brother of Henry H. Hancock. The 1898 minutes of Mt. Paron Primitive Baptist Church near Lizella, list Epsy Hancock as a member. Source: Joyce Rape Harrison - electronic http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/h/a/r/Joyce-R-Harrison/GENE28-0003.html
Note: Note: EPSY ANN GRAY (YARBOROUGH): Espy Hancock is listed on the 1900 Crawford County census as Epsie Hancock, head of household, W/F b. Sept. 1830, 69 years of age, born in Ge
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