Cherokee County Wills and Estates

Cherokee County was created from the 1832 Georgia Land Lottery and drew residents from all over the State, especially the North Georgia Counties. Many families passed through this county to go on to settle in Cobb and Paulding Counties. Earliest settlers were: James Anderson, Edmund Bagby, Daniel M. Bird, William H. Bell, Samuel Cook, John Cox, Alfred Coulter, John Corbin, Samuel Cobb, William Carmichael, William Dinsmore, John Delaney, John Donald, William Ellison, John Epperson, James Fielder, James Flower, Andrew Green, John Garrison, Littleberry Holcombe, A. S. Hansell, Thomas Hutcherson, Thomas S. Johnson, Wilkinson Jamison, William Kinsey, Alfred Law, Ambrose Manning, John McCoy, Newton Perkins, Richard Ragsdale, Charles Scott, Robert Trout, Elijah Underwood and Nicholas Waddell.

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Index to Cherokee County Will Book B 1848-1866.
Index to Cherokee County Will Book C 1866-1921.
Index to Cherokee County Inventories, Appraisers, Vouchers, Sales, Annual Returns, 1848-1852.
Cherokee Legal Advertising 1868-1873.
Green, Jesse (Last Will and Testament Image) (1873).
Cherokee County Divorces from newspapers 1885-1886.
Soldiers in Mexican War.

Transcriptions of Cherokee County Wills, Administrator's Bonds, Guardianships (Digital Images)

Testators: Adams, Israel;Alfred orphans;Anderson, Eli;Bagley, Thomas;Bagley orphans; Barrons, James;Bates, Stephen;Beasly, Henry;Bell, William; Boring orphans; Bozeman, William; Brewster guardianship; Brooke, John ; Burton, Edward; Callahon, William; Cantrell orphans; Cockburn, William; Cook, Elizabeth; Cook, Jeremiah; Cook, John; Corbin, John; Cox, John; Drummond orphans; Drummond, Matthew; Fitzsimmons guardianship; Foster, Philemon; Fowler orphans; Gath, Jabez; Gipson orphans; Green, Jesse (1873); Griffin orphans; Hammond, William; Holland, Archibald; Honea, William; Hughs orphans; Hunt, Thomas; Hunt, Timothy; Johnson orphans; Johnston orphans; Jones, Marilda; Keith, Jasper; Latham, John; Lathrum, Mary; Loveless, Barton; Manning, Benjamin; Manning, Mary; Manning, Reuben; Mansell, John; Maroney, John; Means orphans; McCafee, John; McCleskey guardian; McCollum, George; McConnell, John, Jr.; McCutchen, David; McWhorter, Isaac; Moore orphan; Neal, Richard; Paden, Moses; Pugh, Anna ; Ragsdale, Cullen; Ragsdale, Ira; Ragsdale, Richard; Ragsdale orphans ; Rainey orphans; Rainey, John; Rusk, James; Saterfield, Curtis; Scott, Mary; Seago guardianship; Stephens, Daniel; Stewart, James; Stover, John; Terrell, Thomas; Tillman, Martha; Trout, Robert; Watson orphans; Wells, Green. Subscribe to view documents

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