Wilcher family papers
Scope and Contents
Includes deeds, plats, bills of sale, receipts, fi fa, estate papers, and a few letters connected with the Wilcher, Davis, Seals, and Snell families in Warren, Jefferson, Glascock, Johnson, Burke, Richmond, and Wilkinson Counties in Georgia. Enslaved people are listed in estate records, and African-Americans are mentioned in records following the Civil War.
Dates
- 1786-1896
Creator
- Wilcher family (Family)
Conditions Governing Access
Unrestricted
Biographical / Historical
The Wilcher (also Wiltshire) family probably originated in Virginia and came to Georgia in the late 18th century. Jeremiah, Sr., (ca. 1770-1830) married Jane (Jinny) May or Cummings and had a son, Jeremiah, Jr., (1798-1860) who married Ruth Braddy. The marriages of several of their children produced many of the family connections found in these records: Polly Wilcher (b. 1819) married William Davis; and Julius Caesar Augustus Wilcher (1837-1912) married both Cenith B. Ann Snell (daughter of John C. Snell and Nancy Swain) and Jan L. Seals. Although the family lived mostly in what is now Glascock County, their holdings were in what earlier was Warren County, Georgia.
Extent
0.5 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
- Title
- Wilcher family papers
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Georgia Archives Manuscript Collections Repository
5800 Jonesboro Rd
Morrow GA 30260 United States