Henry Bass Fowlkes I

AUDITED 5 Aug 2026 - [1258] HENRY BASS FOWLKES, corroborated from a court record.Library of Virginia Chancery, Lunenburg County, cause 111-1809-004, Fowlkes v. Fowlkes - free, direct-URL, no login; seven images saved, all image-only manuscript, read visually at zoom.THE BILL OF COMPLAINT states: "your orator Henry Fowlkes that Henry Fowlkes the father of your orator departed this life some time in the year ____ after duly making and publishing his last Will of which he appointed his wife Tabitha Fowlkes executrix with sundry other persons as executors all of whom except the said Tabitha refused to qualify, that therefore the execution of the said Will devolved solely on her who qualified as executrix in the County Court of NOTTOWAY that the said testator by his said Will devised to your orator one third of the tract of land in the County of Lunenburg purchased of Jesse Crenshaw and Coleman Jennings and the remaining two thirds he devises to John B Fowlkes and Elisha Fowlkes ... which she refused, because the other two devisees were infants".★ THE IDENTIFICATION: father Henry Fowlkes dead before Nov 1808 with his will proved in NOTTOWAY, widow and executrix Tabitha, and three devisee sons Henry, John B. and Elisha - matching [1258] (d. 1808 Nottoway), [1259] Tabitha Bass, and children [1260], [1289] and [1284] of family F443. "John B." decodes as John BASS Fowlkes; this family's middle-name convention runs Edward Bass, Henry Bass, Liberty Bass, Tabithia Bass.WHY THE SUIT IS IN LUNENBURG AND NOT NOTTOWAY: the will was proved at home in Nottoway; a partition is brought where the LAND lies, and this tract lay in Lunenburg. The tree's Nottoway placement is right.WHY [1256] EDWARD BASS FOWLKES IS NOT A PARTY: this tract was devised to three sons only. He had eleven children; a will devises different land to different children, so absence from one tract's partition is not evidence of non-sonship.⛔ THE RECORD DOES NOT DATE HIS DEATH. The bill leaves the year blank ("some time in the year ____"). The tree's 1808 is bounded by the suit, not stated by it.Procedure: heard 10 Nov 1808; continued for report 4 Mar 1809; report read and decree 13 Apr 1809. Counsel P. Bland on both sides. Tabitha "admits the truth of the allegations"; the two infants answer by her as their special Guardian.★ NAMED NEXT DOCUMENT, and it is the highest-value unread item on this branch: the WILL of Henry Bass Fowlkes, proved in Nottoway County Court c. 1808. It would name all eleven children as a closed set. Nottoway's records survive - this project has already used Nottoway Order Book 7 (1814-17).