Beyond our Elusive William Daniel

Estate Papers, Darlington Dist. SC, File #312, Judge of Probate; 1790 & 1830 Census Darlington SC. The following information comes from information obtained from the internet on November 15, 1997. In this reference she is said to have died about July of 1836. Letters of administration for the estate were granted to William Vann with William Vann, George W. Dargan and David Williams security for the administrators bond (Probate packet for Jane Goodson photocopied by SC Department of Archives and History; recorded in Darlington Co. Will Book O, pp. 513ff.). These letters of administration were granted on 19 July 1836. The appraisal of the estate was assigned to James Dove, Simpson Mixon, Wiley Goodson, and Joseph E. Rhodes. On 3 August 1836 it was valued at $183.40 by James Dove, Joseph E. Rhodes, and Simpson Mixon. (The assets included the following: about $88 in the hands of William Vann, 3 head of cattle, one horse, 10 head of hogs, and assorted household and farm items including things such as plates, a skillet, bowls, pitchers, cups, a smoothing iron, plow, knife and forks, an arm chair, a spinning wheel, a churn, bed linens, a bedstead and 20 bushels of corn.) There was an estate sale on 20 August 1836 which raised $133.93. Half was from the following purchasers: William Vann, James Davis, William Wright, Perneice Goodson, Chloe Davis, Joshua Terril, Daniel Dampier, Calvin Rhodes, James Dority and Wesley Garner . The following bills were among those paid by the administrator: Henry Blackman's (husband of Diphrony Goodson) blacksmith bill, James Goodson's blacksmith bill for 1832 to Wiley Goodson, and an uncollected note owed by Mrs. Pernice Goodson. There is a family legend that says that Penelope Goodson had three sisters, one married to an Ellington, one to a Wright, and one to a Terrell. One of the purchasers of the estate was Joshua Terrell. There is a Joshua Terrell, aged 57, born in South Carolina listed on the 1870 Crenshaw Co., Alabama census. The family lived near Penelope Goodson Daniel. According to Broyce McCormick, Joshua's son Scott Terrell purchased Penelope Daniel's home after she died (a letter written in 1929-30 said that a "relative of Penelope's" was interested in buying the home.)