Read-GA-Will-1859 In recording some information on ancestors from Newton Co., GA I ran across these folk's names and ages in wills. If there is another forum to which I should also post these, please let me know. I'm also posting this to slaveinfo.com I can imagine how difficult it must be to search without information such as this... Julie O'Neil Perkins Slave Information Newton County, GA Estate Records Vol II 1822-1900 pp 74-77 Jan. 1859 JAMES READ ... wife: Sarah (d. 1865) - left her his estate, plus men BURT (45), JAMES (25), SILVA (35), and JUDA (55). READ children and their slave inheritances: ... William T. - man GREEN and boy LARRY ... Samuel P. - boy FRANK ... John E. - man LANDY (20), woman ABBY and her children EFFA and JIM ... Harriet R. Zachary, decd. ... Sarah F. - woman JULIA (23) ... Eliza G.(Glenn) - IZZA (18), girl MARY and boy SAM ... Savannah A. - ORSA (12), man JACK, man MELVIN, and boy ROBERT ... Eugenia G. (the youngest, over 14 in 1865 when mother died) - girl MINDY READ sons-in-law: ... Ethan A. Melton - man ALFRED (note: Elizabeth M. READ m. Ethan A. Melton in 1846 in Newton Co., GA) ... William Zachary, widower ... Charles Y. Crawford grandsons: ... Thomas H. Zachry - SIDNEY ... Charles T. Zachry - man ISHAM/ISHAN Contributed by: "Julie O. Perkins" jperkins@orwell.coweta.k12.ga.us