Amanuensis Monday-Mark Honeycutt Probate File

Amanuensis Monday is a genealogy blogging theme. It was started by John Newmark who writes the TransylvanianDutch blog.


His definition of Amanuensis is:
Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.


Today’s subject is a list of heirs of Mark I. Honeycutt from his probate folder, Probate Office, Stanly County, North Carolina.¹


Mark Honeycutt married Charity Dry on 18 Oct 1822 in Stanley County, North Carolina.
The last census in which Mark Honeycutt was found is the 1860 Census for Stanly County, North Carolina. He’s there with his wife and 4 of his children, a new son-in-law, John Furr and his first born grandchild Mary E. Furr.

1860 CENSUS: Stanly County, North Carolina; Roll: M653_914; Image: 18; Family History Library Film: 803914, Page: 9 (stamped); Line 30, Dwelling 113, Family 113; Mark HUNEYCUTT, male, age 60, born in NC; Charity HUNEYCUTT, female, [wife], age 57, born in NC; Martin I. HUNEYCUTT, male, age 24, born in NC; Sallie HUNEYCUTT, female, age 28, born in NC; Bedy L. HUNEYCUTT, female, age 17, born in NC; John FURR, male, [Son-in-Law], age 30, born in NC; Betsey [HUNEYCUTT] FURR, female, age 21, born in NC and Mary E. FURR, female, {grand Daughter] age 9/12, born in NC.²

After challenging a local Facebook group to help identify the parents of 2nd Great Grandfather, James W. Huneycutt, a long time friend, Julie Hampton, found the probate file of Mark Honeycutt.I had given her a Family Group Sheet for James W. Honeycutt which enabled her to identify Mark Honeycutt as the father of James W. Honeycutt and thus my 3rd Great Grandfather.

From the 1850 and 1860 Census I have identified 7 children for Mark and Charity Honeycutt. However, one document from that probate folder shows that there were 9 children; thus I an missing two children. These two are sons, Wiley and David Honeycutt.  


The above document has the Children of Mark and Charity Honeycutt listed on the left and their surviving children on the right side. Remember, Mark was last found in an 1860 Census; these probate records are dated  January 1902 through 1911 and deals mostly with the partition of lands because there are so many descendants that they are unable to partition the land; it must be sold.
Children of Mark Honeycutt listed are:

1. Martin I. Honeycutt
2. James W. Honeycutt
3. Wm [R.] Honeycutt
4. Wiley Honeycutt
5. David Honeycutt
6. Tobe/Tobias Honeycutt
7. Bettie Furr
8. Sarah Daze
9. Beadie Honeycutt

Wiley and David are not listed in the household in 1850 and 1860. It is believed that Mark Honeycutt died between 1860-1870 and the children kept farming the 100 acres of land he received in 1848 from Land Grant #151. No death date or tombstone had been found for Mark or Charity Honeycutt.

Mark and Charity Dry Honeycutt are my 3rd Great Grandparents.




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[1] "North Carolina, Estate Files, 1663-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-35569-26321-38?cc=1911121&wc=93PV-CNL:1066690002,183304101,1066691914 : accessed 31 July 2015), Stanly County > H > Huneycutt, Mark I (1902) > image 1 of 24; State Archives, Raleigh. Courtesy of Julie Hampton
[2] 1860 U. S. Census, Stanly County, North Carolina, population schedule, Stanly County, North Carolina, Page: 9 (stamped); Line 30, Dwelling 113, Family 113, Household of Mark HUNEYCUTT; online database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : Viewed 31 July 2015); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M653, Roll 914.