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Daniel Shows, Sr. (b. 1775, d. 1839)

Daniel Shows, Sr. (son of Conrad Schauss and Johanna Maria Magdalina Schwint) was born 1775, and died 1839 in Warren County, Georgia.

Notes for Daniel Shows, Sr.:
On Columbia Co, GA Muster rolls 1793
In Capt. Neal's District Warren Co, GA 1794 1 poll
On Warren Co, GA tax roll 1801
In Capt. James Wilson's District, Warren Co, GA 1805 with 1 poll 1 slave land on Bryer Creek
On Warren Co, GA tax roll 1817
In Capt. Williams District, Warren Co, GA 1818 with 1 poll, two slaves with two parcels of land, one on Whites Creek
Enumerated 1820 US census Warren Co, GA pg 292 1wm 10-16, 1 wm>45, 2 wf 10-16, 1 wf 16-26, 1 wf >45
Enumerated 1830 US census Warren Co, GA pg 210 as wm 50-60 with 1 wf 5-10, 1 wf 10-15, 1 wf 50-60
Will recorded in Warren Co, GA in book 1829-1852 pgs 88-89 of the records of Warren Co, GA will dated 9-22-1838 reads as follows:
In the name of God amen:
I, Daniel Shows of the State of Georgia and Warren county being weak and sick but of sound and disposing mind and memory, and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my last will and testament, and first and principally of all, I give my soul to the hands of Almighty God that it and my body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in decent Christian burial. And a touching such worldly Estate, wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me with in this life, I give and dispose of in the following manner and form:
Item first, I give and bequeath to my wife, Mary Shows four Negroes, to-wit: Bartlet, Daniel, Pleasant, and Fanny and about Two hundred acres of land lying West of the Long branch, household and kitchen furniture, and three horses, and four hundred bushels of corn and half the fodder and the plantation or road wagon, to be by her freely and fully possessed during her natural life or widowhood, and after her death or intermarriage to descend and go to my children hereinafter to be named being first sold and then divided share and share alike.
Item second, I will and bequeath to my grandson, Thomas Green Hardaway one Negro boy named Cato, to remain in the possession of his grandmother until the said Thomas Green Hardaway shall call for him, and should my aforesaid Grandson die before receiving said Negro boy, then in that case to revert to and become the property of my Estate.
Item third, All unnamed property heretofore to-wit: All the land lying west of the Long Beach being about one-hundred and twenty acres and the balance of the Negroes, Eleven, sold and equally divided among following named children, to-wit: Linny McMath, who intermarried with Elijah McMath, Epsy Hunt who intermarried with Howell H. Hunt, Nancy Story who intermarried with William R. Story, Mary Swint who intermarried with John Swint, Mary Williams, my granddaughter who intermarried Shadrach F. Williams, and my three grandsons, to-wit: the aforesaid Thomas Green Hardaway, John Madison Hardaway and Daniel Holcombe Hardaway, standing and receiving together as much as one heir---the afforded, my just debts being first paid.
Item fourth, I constitute and appoint Elisha Burson, Executor to this my last Will and Testament.
Item fifth: I appoint and ordain my Executor Elisha Burson guardian for my aforesaid three grandsons to-wit: Thomas Green Hardaway, John Madison Hardaway, and Daniel Holcombe Hardaway---fully ratifying and confirming this writing to contain my last Will and Testament, ---- Signed, sealed, and declared in the presence of the under-written witnesses who in his presence and the presence of each other subscribing their names as witnesses as aforesaid this Twenty-second day of September, Eighteen hundred and thirty-eight,
Samuel Smith His
John Burson Daniel (X) Shows
Mann Dunwent Mark