Marty and Karla Grant

!CENSUS:1850 Marion Dist., SC # 1528/1534
Hansel Coward 24 Farmer $- Marion
Jane 21;


!NAMED-PROBATE ROLL # 983 Marion Co., SC Wilson Coward 1853
Will dated 28 Mar 1853
My wife Sarah
daughter Martha Jones
to sons Hansel and Joel Coward.
to dau Kiddy Bailey
dau Sarah Lane
Dau Penny
grandsons John and Richard Lee.
To Ervin Coward son of my daughter Frances.
S: Wilson Coward
Wit: Malcolm Stafford, Thomas Bridges, James H. Stafford
Proved 29 Sep 1853
* From "Marion County Probate Records" Volume 1, Lucille Utley, Danny Smith. Three Rivers Historical Society. 1985.;




!EQUITY ROLL # 307 Marion Co., SC 1860
Samuel T. Page, adm. vs Penelope Coward. 10 Jun 1860
Joel Coward died intestate April or May 1860.
Left following survivors:
Ansel Coward, brother
Penelope Coward, sister
Sarah Ann Lane, a sister who married Samuel Lane
Martha Jones sister who married Allen Jones
Kiddy Ann Bailey who married Jesse Bailey and resides in state of Florida.
children of deceased sister Frances who married Ephraim Taylor who had previously died leaving:
Susan Taylor who married Edward Surls
Morgan Taylor who is in the state of Georgia.
John Lee
Richard Lee
and Sarah Ann Lee, children of deceased sister Anna who married John Lee, and who died before Joel Coward.
For many years before the death of Joel Coward, he and his sister Penelope Coward lived together and property is in her possession, she basing her claim on deed of gift from Joel Coward.
* From "Marion County South Carolina Extracts from Equity Rolls", Lucille Utley. Three Rivers Historical Society.;

!CENSUS:1850 Marion Dist., SC # 1528/1534
Hansel Coward 24 Farmer $- Marion
Jane 21;