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| The estate of Mills
Whitaker |
Mills Whitaker was born about 1802, probably in TN, to Giles Whitaker and
Margaret Mills(?). He died in Pulaski County in 1854. Mills and Sidney Arnold
(daughter of James Arnold and Elizabeth Baker) were married 21 Jul 1824 in
Pulaski County.
Mills owned a farm that lay on each side of old 80 on the west side of Line
Creek. It was on Laces Fork with one corner near the mouth of that creek, which
empties into Line Creek on the Whitaker Cemetery Road. The Mills Whitaker farm
included the turn-off of today's Lower Line Creek Road and the "sawdust
hill" on the south side of old Hwy 80. James Cooper purchased George W.
and Rebecca Whitaker Nichols's interest in the farm in 1874. He ultimately
ended up owning the farm, along with most of the land on Line Creek.
On the page preceeding the below information, there is a valuation of the
estate ($729.43) which was appraised by H.B. Linville and James Cooper.
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"November 10th, 1854. The following is a memorandum of the sales of the
property of Mill Whiteaker Decd. which bid off as follows, (viz)
| Purchaser |
Item |
Amount |
| Sidney Whiteaker |
one rifle gun |
$6.50 |
| Thomas Duncan |
1 rifle gun |
6.60 |
| William Whiteaker |
1 rifle gun |
10.75 |
| Sidney Whiteaker |
1 clock |
8.00 |
| Nathan Whiteaker |
1 trunk |
5.00 |
| J.R. Whiteaker |
2 yds blk French cloth |
6.00 |
| Sidney Whiteaker |
one hand saw |
.50 |
| Reuben Langford |
2 chisels |
.30 |
| Sidney Whiteaker |
1 augur |
.15 |
| Sidney Whiteaker |
1 hand saw and chisel |
.25 |
| William Whiteaker |
1 drawing knife, 12 augurs |
1.50 |
| Giles Whiteaker |
1 broad axe |
3.00 |
| Alfred Smith |
1 single tree |
.35 |
| Sidney Whiteaker |
1 single tree |
.25 |
| William Whiteaker |
1 saddle |
5.25 |
| Sidney Whiteaker |
2 clenses |
.25 |
| Jas. Cooper |
one heash tree |
.40 |
| Wm. Whiteaker |
1 pr. gears |
2.25 |
| Nathan Whiteaker |
1 pr. harness |
2.00 |
| Giles Whiteaker |
1 axe & 1 [?] |
.55 |
| William Whiteaker |
1 bell, 1 wedge |
.75 |
| Sidney Whiteaker |
1 pr. st[?] yards |
1.00 |
| J.R. Whiteaker |
1 bell |
.75 |
| Sidney Whiteaker |
2 bee stands |
4.00 |
| Reuben Langford |
3 bee stands |
7.85 |
| Wm. Whiteaker |
1 sythe and cradle |
2.70 |
| Sidney Whiteaker |
1 4-horse waggon |
35.00 |
| Wm. Whiteaker |
1 grind stone |
.55 |
| Giles Whiteaker |
1 set blacksmith tools |
60.00 |
| Giles Whiteaker |
1 lot of trinkets |
.25 |
| Jas. Cooper |
1 lot of trinkets |
.50 |
| Nathan Whiteaker |
1 pr. iron |
.75 |
| Wm. Whiteaker |
1 pr. steel |
.65 |
| Giles Whiteaker |
2 plows |
.30 |
| William Whiteaker |
2 plows |
1.25 |
| Moses Adams |
1 plow |
.50 |
| Thomas Farmer |
1 plow |
.30 |
| William Starns |
1 two-horse waggon |
31.00 |
| Giles Whiteaker |
5 empty salt bbls |
.50 |
| Shelton Pointer |
5 head hogs |
24.60 |
| Wm. Whiteaker |
2 fishing gigs |
.25 |
| Wm. Whiteaker |
3 head of hogs |
11.25 |
| J.R. Whiteaker |
4 head of hogs |
9.75 |
| John Chaney |
7 head of sheep |
10.10 |
| Thomas Farmer |
7 head of sheep |
6.25 |
| Joseph Done |
1 horse |
30.50 |
| Reuben Langford |
1 mare |
20.00 |
| Sidney Whiteaker |
1 mare |
25.00 |
| Alfed Smith |
one [?] cow |
11.00 |
| Stephen Jackson |
1 [?] cow |
14.55 |
| John Whiteaker |
1 steer yearling |
4.00 |
| Giles Whiteaker |
1 pr. work cattle |
46.25 |
| Calvin Sparks |
1 pr. work cattle |
26.00 |
| J.C. Evans |
1 yearling |
5.00 |
| James Cooper |
1 yealing |
5.55 |
| Nathan Arnold |
1 calf |
4.75 |
| William Whiteaker |
2 hoes & 1 axe |
.45 |
| William Whiteaker |
1 weeding hoe |
.65 |
| Thomas Farmer |
2 weeding hoes |
.25 |
| William Whiteaker |
1 axe |
1.25 |
| Nathan Whiteaker |
1 rasor |
.25 |
| Thomas Farmer |
one rasor |
.25 |
| J.C. Evans |
one carry plow |
2.00 |
| F.F. Evans |
2 head of hogs |
13.00 |
| Sidney Whiteaker |
5 head hogs |
8.10 |
| J.R. Whiteaker |
15 head of hogs |
6.50 |
| J.C. Evans |
1 hog |
5.00 |
| William Whiteaker |
1 hog |
4.95 |
| William Rogers |
1 hog |
3.80 |
| Reuben Langford |
10 head hogs |
16.10 |
| Sidney Whiteaker |
[?] head hogs |
5.00 |
| Sidney Whiteaker |
11 head hogs |
11.00 |
| Thomas Whiteaker |
2 head of hogs |
4.25 |
| J.R. Whiteaker |
4 head of sheep |
3.75 |
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$572.50 |
"Closed Jany 20th, 1855.
"H.B. Linville [?]
Giles & J.R. Whiteaker, Admins."
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Will Book 4, page 400, Pulaski County Courthouse.
In the document, Sidney Arnold Whitaker is always referred to as "Sidney
Whitaker, the widow."
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