Clarissa Williams was appointed administrator of her father Jonah Williams‘ estate. She filed an inventory of his property, noting one $2000 life insurance policy (of which $900 had been borrowed against); a black horse; a lame mare; a horse wagon; a buggy cart; five plows; a cotton planter; a guano sower; five weeding hoes; a grubbing hoe; two shovels; two rake forks; a glass blade; a saw; seven barrels of “arn”; a half stock of fodder; and a house and lot on the south side of Green Street valued at about $1000.
In May 1917, Williams submitted to Wilson County Superior Court an account of the settlement of the estate. Across the two years after his death, Williams carefully tended her father’s affairs, paying tax bills and other debts, taking in farm income, and selling personal property. Several African-American men and women appear in the list, including Martha Dew Alston and Louvinia Hargrove for nursing services, Charles [S.] Thomas for barber services, Henry Tart for hack hire, Georgia A. Aiken for carriage hire, Dr. Frank S. Hargrave for medical services, and Rachel Falkland, Rose Barnes, Caroline Mercer, Cora Derring, Henry Joyner, Bisco Hagans, Wade Barnes, and Richard Pender for unspecified debts.
Probate Records 1905-1919, Property Settlement Records 1905-1923, Wilson County, North Carolina, http://www.familysearch.org.