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Tax digest of Cobb County, Georgia, 1851
In the Tax Digest from 1851, the following people lived in 942nd,
known as the Wellington District, listed here alphabetically, with the number of
slaves, followed by the number of acres owned:[1] Hugh BAKER, 1-240; Jacob CLONTS 11-320; Wm. FLORENCE,
9-312; James GARMON, 3-120; G.W. HAWKINS, 3-200; Wm. S. HENDRICK, 1-120; J.L.
KIKER, 2-230; Bud MULLINS 2-0; Reuben McCLUNG, 1-80; Jasper SMITH, 8-280; J.H.
TURNER, ?-80; W.A. TURNER, 4-160; Wm. WEDDINGTON, 3-160; Martha WATSON, 1-140:
L.D. WINN, 4-160.
Bud MULLINS is the only person taxed without land ownership.
He was taxed because he owned two slaves.
The J.H. TURNER listed here is John Harbinger TURNER.
John had been living near the MULLINS in Campbell County in 1830.
John’s daughter Prussia (b. 1811) had married Bud’s son Clement (b.
1804) in about 1827. In 1858, after Bud’s death, Clement and Prussia, their 12
children, and the TURNER family will move to Polk County, AR.
The KIKER listed here could be related to Wily J. KISER, or one and the
same, whom Bud lists in his RWPA. Some short time after this tax record was taken, about late 1851 the eastern border of Paulding County was moved further east into what was then Cobb County. Bud and Thomas lived in the portion of Cobb County that became Paulding County. |
