The Petition of William Rowland show that he is a citizen of said County that he is the head of a family consisting of the following persons to wit: Himself & wife & one child under sixteen years of age to wit Amanda Fifteen years of age – Upon petition prays that he may have set apart & Exempt to him as provided in section 2040 to 2049 of the Code of Georgia of 1873 & in acts of the General assembly amending thereof. The following property to wit: Fifty acres of land & five additional acres for each of his children under the age of sixteen years. One farm horse or mule One Cow & calf – Ten head of hogs & fifty dollars worth of provisions & five dollars worth additional for each child- Fifty bushels of Corn- one chous (sic?) and pounds of fodder One one horse wagon one table & set of Chairs sufficient for the use of the family & household & kitchen furniture not to exceed one hundred & fifty – dollars in value- Beds Bedding & common bedsheets sufficient for the family, one loom, one spinning wheel & two pairs of cards & one hundred pounds of leaf cotton – Common tools of trade of himself & wife – Equipment & arms of a Militia soldier & troopers horse – Ordinary Cooking utensils & table crockery, Wearing apparel of himself & family, Family Bible Religious works & school books, Family Portraits – The Library of a professional man in actual practice or business not exceeding three hundred dollars in value & to be selected by himself, One Family Sewing machine.
Your Petitioner prays that your honor will pass an order relieving & exempting from levy and sale by & or in hire of any process whatever the above foregoing schedule of property & that the same may be recorded in the Ordinary’s office of said County as required by law.
March 29, 1880 William Rowland (signature)
Ordinary’s Office
Crawford County, Georgia
At Chambers
March 29 1880
Upon reading & considering the foregoing petition of William Rowland it is ordered that the same be granted as therein prayed & that the Clerk of the Court of Ordinary do record the foregoing petition & this order in the proper book of Record in said office Given under my hand & seal of office the day & year above written.
R. D. Smith, Ordinary
Recorded
March 29 1880, V. S. Walton, C. C. Ord.
William Rowland was born March 21, 1820 in Warren County Georgia. The son of William Rowland and his wife Rachel (Aultman?), he was one of 6 children, the others being; Mary born 1815 married William A. Aultman 1833; Elvia; Rebecca, born 1812 married Anderson McNeil 1831; John ; and Eliza B.
William Rowland (born 1820) married Rebecca Harrison about 1841. Rebecca was born July 16, 1822 in Georgia and died June 6, 1883 in Crawford County. William died in Crawford County on March 16, 1896. He was a soldier in the War for Southern Independence, enlisting in Macon, GA in March 1864 at the age of 44 in the Georgia Reserves. He was assigned to the 3rd GA Reserves, Company A and transferred to the regular army in November 1864. William served with honor until the close of the war and was discharged by parole in April 1865 at the Charleston & Savannah Rail Road in South Carolina. He was a farmer & mechanic by trade.
William & Rebecca Rowland had the following children:
1. Robert Jackson Rowland, born 3-12-1843, d. 3-16-1908, marr. Martha Joyner 1865
2. M. E. Rowland, born about 1844
3. L. M. Rowland, born about 1846
4. William Frank Rowland, born 3-1-1848, d. 9-20-1906, marr. Mary J. Moncrief 1869
5. Caroline R. Rowland, born 12-31-1849, marr. Daniel Osborn Joyner
6. John C. Rowland, born 4-11-1852, d. 10-23-1910, marr. Julie Ann Giles 1875
7. Eugene E. Rowland, born 2-25-1855, d. 2-24-1911, marr. Harriet T. Giles 1881
8. David W. Rowland, born 3-21-1857, marr. Adeline Becham 1875
9. Mary Jane Rowland, born about 1860, d. about 1884, marr. James Russell “Ruffin” Hudson 1879. One child, Della Rebecca Hudson
10. Amanda R. Rowland, born about 1864, married Jesse W. Hudson 1887
William’s homestead exemption reveals an educated man who considered the importance of the education of his children and the value of a Christian home, as well as being mindful of those things needed for daily survival. By the time this document was written William was an old man of 60 years who had raised a family, fought a war and dealt with the daily trials of life regularly. He had survived not only the War but the period known as Reconstruction of the South when times were extremely difficult. He placed value in recording his family’s history by naming “Family Portraits” and the Family Bible to be exempted.
I am proud to say I am the ggg-granddaughter of William & Rebecca Harrison Rowland, Cheryl Aultman
A big thanks goes out to Cheryl Aultman for submitting this information!
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