Hi. Funny I should get a hit the day after coming back from a trip to AR to research this family. In the book, "Probate Papers, Franklin County, Arkansas, 1838-1920", by Virginia McPhail, page 177, it has an entry for both Isaac and Elizabeth.

For Elizabeth: - "deceased - Will and proof only made in 1870. no filing or proof date. (Elizabeth made her will on 13 July 1870.)"

For Isaac - "deceased - One paper. Elizabeth Tigner made a bond for $2000.00 but no date. (Letter of Administration Book A: has died Jan 1871 with Elizabeth Tigner administratrix and filed 3 Jan 1871)"

That abstract is correct that there is no date on the bond. There was nothing on the back of the bond to indicate it had been filed, either. It is all in one handwriting and it seems like there was to be a third person on the bond. It begins: "Know all men by these presents, that we, Elizabeth Tigner, J.S. Ledbetter and...are held and firmly bound...etc." There is no other name after 'and'. $2000 was a decent amount of money back then but Isaac should have had some money from the land he owned.

For Elizabeth, there were two separate documents in her file. The handwriting is the same for both and quite bad and nearly illegible in spots. One was the will and one was the attesting by the court clerk. In a separate find and different book by the same author, Virginia McPhail, she has abstracted the contents of the will. She made one mistake in the name of a daughter. Instead of the Martha Jane Spencer of Texas, it should be "Mahala Jane Spencer, resident now of the State of Texas" This child does appear as Mahala J. on the 1850 census with her parents in AR.

I think I would trust a mortality census more than what could be a slip of a finger in typing. That Teaguener spelling in 1870 is the only year that spelling was used. Unless the family had an odd accent, I think the enumerator got carried away with sprucing up the name. All other records I've found are Tignor or Tigner. I apparantly missed checking Will Book A, Letters of Administration. Will have to do that in a letter or wait for a next trip to AR.

Thanks for the tip on the death date. In all the places I hit and books on cemeteries in Franklin County this trip, I never have found where Isaac, nor Elizabeth, are buried. Any clues there?

Mary