Individual Details

Will

Estate administered by Royal Ballard and the bond signed by John Dobey and William Nixon. Citation was read in the Methodist Church in Camden. Appraisers were Alexander Hodge, Charles J. Shannon, Francis S. Leen and Bn. Bineham. Mention is made of what is still due to Reuben from the estate of his father, John Horton. Mentions plantation land that he bought from N.C. Wiggins. Royal Ballard became the guardian of the the two minors, Henry D. W. Alesander and Isaac B. Alexander. These boys seem to have been the stepsons of Reuben. They did not heir. Paid from the estate: 1/2 to Sarah; sum to Hardy Horton who was administrator of estate of Wiley Horton deceased in Lancaster Co.; sum to James G. Holmes for what was still owned on the above Wiggins lands; sum to Dr. DeLeon for medical services; sum to Hardy Horton who was Administrator of estate of Ivey Horton. People who owed the estate: Mrs. Elizabeth Horton Ivey Horton, deceased, Hardy Horton, James McKinney, Thomas McLure, Samuel J. Carpenter, John Campbell. The widow seemed to be sister of Royal Ballard and a former widow, Sarah Alexander. No list of heirs.