Re: Phillip Hedrick Obituary, Putnam County
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In reply to:
Phillip Hedrick Obituary, Putnam County
Donna Faucheaux 7/01/06
I am wondering if there is either record of a will or any other probate action such as an "Orphans Court" for children of William Austin and Mary Ann Elizabeth (Hedrick) Foster for the period between 1880 (after the June census in Union District, Putnam County WVA) and before 1885.
Children would be Mary, James, John, Sarah, Charles, and Benjamin.Benjamin (my husband's grandfather) is reported to have been an orphan raised by foster parents by the surname of Stricklin from a very early age.Foster father believed to have been John L. Stricklin as Benjamin appears in this home in 1900.Other children were raised in various homes.
If parents died without a will, what system in that time period would have made arrangements for a permanent foster placement?I am trying to establish when and where the parents died.
Alice Archer