John McCullough

d. 1861

Died 1861

John McCullough farmed in Neshoba County, Mississippi. His wife Nancy died at their home about 1853. The enslaved woman Manda, who was Nancy's own property, stayed in his household after her death and had two daughters there.

He married again. When he died in April 1861 he left a widow, Kizziah McCullough, who petitioned the Probate Court as "widow of John McCullough late of said County deceased". His son Marion was made administrator of his estate. On 22 July 1861 Marion told the court that the estate was "of an unproductive and perishable nature" and should be sold at once, and on 24 July he posted the notice of sale at the courthouse door: a lot of wheat and sundry articles, cash for anything under five dollars and notes with security for the rest.

In the same weeks his eldest living son, Mathew, was administering Nancy's estate, and the court listed John's children by her: Mathew, Marion, John, Benjamin, Nancy, wife of Cornelius Harris, and William, with four grandchildren whose parent had already died.

Sources

Neshoba County, Mississippi, Probate Records 1860-1863, recorded 30 and 31 May 1861, R. M. Ross, Clerk; FamilySearch image 3:1:3QS7-L9Q6-6WLL.

Neshoba County, Mississippi, Probate Records 1860-1863, filed 10 June and recorded 29 July 1861; FamilySearch image 3:1:3QSQ-G9Q6-6W2K.

Neshoba County, Mississippi, Probate Records 1860-1863, pages 226 to 227; FamilySearch film 5835968, frame 132, image 3:1:3QSQ-G9Q6-6W2K.

Neshoba County, Mississippi, Probate Records 1860-1863: petition of Mathew McCullough for administration of the estate of Nancy McCullough, sworn 28 May 1861, with his bond and letters (FamilySearch 3:1:3QS7-L9Q6-6WLL); his petition of 10 June 1861 for sale of the slaves, naming the heirs, with the petition of Marion McCullough, administrator of John McCullough (3:1:3QSQ-G9Q6-6W2K); citation to the heirs, July 1861, and the appraisers' inventory of 16 July 1861 (3:1:3QS7-99Q6-6WJV); notice of sale of John McCullough's estate, 24 July 1861 (3:1:3QS7-89Q6-6WBK). Petition of Kizziah McCullough, widow, same volume (3:1:3QS7-89Q6-643W).

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