Duncan Lunsford Estate Kennedy Allowance

DUNCAN LUNSFORD ESTATE

Allowance to Henry Kennedy

(against estate of minor heirs)

The Estate of [Felicia Jane Lunsford] Duncan Lunsford, dec’d,

to Henry Kennedy for bourding and taking care of her [his] children.

[Felicia Jane Lunsford has been stricken and replaced with Duncan Lunsford]

Bought 3 pair shoes for the children                                                                           $4.00

For attending to Roxanna Admilia [Amelia] Lunsford in August 1859

Had the bilious fever                                                                                                     $5.00

For keeping Riley F. [P.] Lunsford from July of the year 1859

until May the 4^th 1860                                                                                                  $??.50

For doctoring him in that time

Had the bilious fever and colary in November 1861                                               $5.00

I take him in again and kept him until January 1862 and that

time a spell of the measles                                                                                           $5.00

and the 29^th of October 1862 he came to my house and again he

was sick when he come and he was sick five weeks and has had

several spells of sickness since that time and has had two pair

of shoes I bought a pair and I made him a pair and I made him one

woolen shirt and made him five cotton shirts and bought him two

domestic shirts and three pair of yarn pants and two pair of

cotton ____ and one hat and three pair socks                                                          $122.00

for bourding Sarah A. Lunsford from November 1862 until

March 1864 and I had in that time four yards of linsey at one

time and four and a half at another time and seven yards of calico

and one fine bonnet and two pair shoes and was sick had the

winter fever and the bilious fever and chills and fever                                            $75.00

for bourding L. Mary L. (J.?) Lunsford and taking care of her

from October 1859 until February 1861                                                                      $25.00

For bourding Dunkin Lunsford and taking care of him from July the six 1859

feeding clothing and sheltering???  and taking care of _______

 $400.00 four hundred Dollars ___ last ____.

Filed August 11, 1864 and allowed by the District County Court of Stoddard County,

Missouri For three hundred and twenty eight dollars

                                                                                          Aaron Bowen, Clerk

              $328.00

               182.37 interest

              $510.37

                                                            Received June 19, 1866

                                                            S. B. Owens, Clerk

                                                            R. W. Grawey, Deputy

Filed and allowed by the probate Court of Stoddard County Missouri January 4, 1870

against estate of minor heirs of Dunkin D. Lunsford, dec’d, for $308.10 in 6^th class.

                                                            L. T. Bragg, Clerk

Filed May 30, 1870 and allowed by the Probate Court of Stoddard County Missouri against

the Estate of D. D. Lunsford, dec’d, the sum of Three Hundred and Eight Dollars and

Ten Cents to be paid without prejudice to creditors.

                                                            R. W. Grawey, Clerk

$95. Recd on the within allowance of C. _____ in Davis Expse $46.65 ___ J. I. Hemphill

Constables receipt $48.35 on this allowance.

                                                                           Henry Kennedy

Allowed for $328.00

http://www.paul_smith.doctors.org.uk/ArchaicMedicalTerms.htm

Bilious Fever: Loose term for illnesses with vomiting, fever and sometimes jaundice.

Could be typhoid, malaria, typhus or hepatitis

Source: Court House, Bloomfield, Stoddard County, Missouri, Probate Settlement

Transcribed by Deborah Lunsford Yates

Last Updated Saturday, May 24, 2003 9:58:21 PM CST