Pleasant LESTER

Abt 1794 - 1862  (68 years)

• Name	Pleasant LESTER  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1794	Chesterfield County, VA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1862	Coweta County, GA   [1]
  Person ID	I13283	Wood-Lester
  Last Modified	17 May 2024

  
  

  Father	Lewis LESTER, Sr.,   b. Abt 1755, Probably in Virginia d. 3 Jan 1823, Oglethorpe County, GA (Age 68 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Rhoda (RUSSELL ?)   d. 2 Sep 1832, Oglethorpe County, GA
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F4705	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Nancy BROOKS,   b. Between 1799 and 1800, South Carolina d. Between 1850 and 1860, Coweta County, GA (Age 51 years)
  Marriage	13 Nov 1817	Madison County, GA   [2]
  Children	1. Elizabeth LESTER,   b. Abt 1818, Madison County, GA  [Father: natural] + 2. Lewis LESTER,   b. 1820, Madison County, GA d. 17 Nov 1864, Camp Chase Ohio, Union POW Camp (Age 44 years)  [Father: natural] + 3. William LESTER,   b. 1824, Madison County, GA d. 1866 (Age 42 years)  [Father: natural] + 4. John LESTER, Sr.,   b. 24 Nov 1825, Madison County, GA d. 24 Aug 1885, Paulding County, GA (Age 59 years)  [Father: natural]   5. Oliver LESTER,   b. 4 May 1830, Madison County, GA d. 26 Sep 1907, Heard County, GA (Age 77 years)  [Father: natural]   6. Thomas LESTER,   b. 1838, Coweta County, GA d. 9 Jan 1921, Heard County, GA (Age 83 years)  [Father: natural]
  Family ID	F4718	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 May 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Event: and moved his family Travel Abt 1836 Coveta County Note: Pleasant purchased land lot #1 of the 3rd district which lies about 6 miles west of Newman. He bought the land from Hiram McCrackin and Charles W Bond and paid each of them the sum of $500. He also drew land in the lottery in Early County but no record of his or any of his family living there has been found. Event: Property Sep 1862 Note: An inventory and appraisment of his estate was made by court appointed appraisers. A few of the items listed among his holdings are as follows: $725 Cash, 12 slaves, 4 mules, 8 mares, one stallion, 19 head of stock cattle, 64 pigs, a wagon, a buggy, 67 bushels of wheat, 34 bushels of seed oats, 13 beehives, 3 bushels of cotton seed, 280 pounds of lard, 281 pounds of bacon, one gallon of whiskey, and several notes due him. The total value of his estate was $19, 696, not including the 250 acres of land in Early County. above information from Riffe Family Site

  
  

• Sources

  [S6] Robert Darious Wood, Sr and J Glenn Wood, "Our Time in History: This Wood & Lester Family", file 106A.txt and 102A.txt. [S6] Robert Darious Wood, Sr and J Glenn Wood, "Our Time in History: This Wood & Lester Family", file 106A.txt.