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Notes for Joel Stevens and Celia Pickett

1817 Celia Pickett married Joel Stevens on July 10, 1817 in Franklin County, Mississippi. [We seek documentation for this marriage.]

1836 William Pickett, Joel Stevens, and Riley Tolles posted bond, as guardians of Margaret Clementine Scott, minor heir of Gabriel Scott, deceased, at the probate court in Yazoo, Mississippi. Dated March 28. [1]

1836 Joel Stevens, Milton Osborn, Morgan L Fitch, and A G Harrison posted bond, as administrators of the estate of Joel Stevens, deceased, at the probate court in Yazoo, Mississippi. Dated October 26. [2]

1836 Joel Stevens, Morgan L Fitch, and Lewis A Stevens posted bond, as guardians of Emily T Stevens, at the probate court in Yazoo, Mississippi. Dated December 28. [3]

1840 Joel Stephens was listed in the census for Yazoo, Mississippi in a household with Males: two (age 5-9), one (age 10-14), one (age 15-19), one (age 40-49) and Females: one (age 0-5), one (age 10-14), one (age 15-19), and one (age 30-39). [4]

1840 Joel Stevens, W W Wood, M Ward, and G J Faulk posted bond, discharging the duties of Joel Stevens, as administrator of the estate of James Stevens, at the probate court in Yazoo, Mississippi. Dated January 24. [5]

1840 Joel Stevens, James Biles, and W W Wood posted bond, discharging the duties of Joel Stevens, as guardian of Lewis Stevens, assumed on November 23, 1835, at the probate court in Yazoo, Mississippi. Dated February 24. [6]

1846 The will of Mary Pickett, dated January 26, in Yazoo, Mississippi, named the children of her daughter Celia. [7]:

This day William Pickett and M Pickett Jr personally appeared before the Hon Probate Court of Yazoo County and on oath testified that during the last sickness of Mary Pickett deceased she did make known to them at her residence as witnesses her last will and testament as follows, viz To Cassandra Stevens, Martha Ann Stevens, Micajah P Stevens, James M Stevens, Laura Stevens and Benjamin F Stevens and William Stevens, children of her daughter Celia Stevens, she gave to following negroes Hairah, Mussan Philip, Daphney and Winny as To Rufus R. Stevens and Levis Stevens children of her daughter, Mary Stevens an Negro boy Josha sworn to & subscribed in open court this 26th Jany 1846 Chas M Henderson. William Pickett, M Pickett Jr.

William Pickett further states that she bequeathed to Elizabeth Stevens, and Mary Ann Stevens her Baroncke? and Horse in his presence and the presence of his wife Elizas Pickett

Sworn to & subscribed in open court Jany 26 1846 Chas M Henderson ccp Recorded Feby 2st 1848. William Pickett.

1850 Benjamin F Stevens (age 12) lived with Lewis Stevens (age 53) in Yazoo, Mississippi. The adjacent household, on the prior page of the census listed the family of William Pickett (age 46). [8]


Footnotes:

[1] Mississippi, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1780-1982, Yazoo County, Exec Bonds and Oaths, 2-57, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[2] Mississippi, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1780-1982, Yazoo County, Exec Bonds and Oaths, 2-58, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[3] Mississippi, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1780-1982, Yazoo County, Exec Bonds and Oaths, 2-57, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[4] United States Federal Census, 1840, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[5] Mississippi, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1780-1982, Yazoo County, Exec Bonds and Oaths, 2-246, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[6] Mississippi, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1780-1982, Yazoo County, Exec Bonds and Oaths, 2-246, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[7] Mississippi, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1780-1982, Yazoo, Will A-106, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[8] United States Federal Census, 1850, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].