and sister Parthena when he paid their portions of the estate. Elizabeth, the youngest child, did not appear in the probate file. By the time the inventory was complete and all of the creditors had come forward, Emily’s father very nearly owed more then he owned. Then, the process of converting all assets to cash and paying creditors began. This process stretched over seven years. When it ended, her father was a net debtor. 7 What little is known about Emily’s youngest sister suggested she was disabled. Her father owned a special chair, see below. No records showed her living outside the family. She never married. In 1850, she and her mother lived with her half-sister. 8 She did not appear in any 1860 census although her mother did. 9 She died at age 47. Her grave marker is joint with her mother who had died less than a year earlier. She and her mother were among the earliest interred in Greenwood Cemetery, Greenwood Methodist Church’s cemetery and the city’s oldest. 10 Emily’s father probably was a harness maker. He owned a RIDING CHAIR , a vehicle popular in the 18 th century. Riding chairs “. . . typically had two wheels and seated one or two people. ‘Riding chairs were more comfortable than riding on a horse,’ a Colonial Williamsburg riding chair maker and vehicle body specialist, explained. ‘In a riding chair, you could move a bit, shift your weight. You did not have to sit on the back of a sweaty horse in August.’” The skills of a wheelwright, a blacksmith and a woodworker were 7 Abbeville District, South Carolina, Court of Ordinary, Inventory & Appraisement, 7 February 1827, Bill of Sale, 8 February 1827, Receipts & Expenditures, 11 May 1828, 31 March 1829, 5 May 1834, Samuel Osborn Estate; Box 71, Pkg. 1748, Abbeville County Probate Court, Abbeville. 8 1850 U.S. census, Newberry District, South Carolina, population schedule, p. 193B, dwelling 146, family 146, Elizabeth Osborne [Osborn] and Elizabeth Redman [Redmond] in R.H. Mounce household; digital image, Ancestry.com (access through participating libraries : 16 September 2015); citing NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 856. 9 1860 U.S. census, Abbeville District, South Carolina, population schedule, Greenwood, p. 104 (penned), dwelling 767, family 762, Eliza [Elizabeth] Redmond in Robt. H. Mounce household; digital image, Ancestry.com (access through participating libraries : 16 September 2015); citing NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1212. 10 Greenwood Cemetery (503 East Cambridge Avenue, Greenwood, Greenwood County, South Carolina), Elizabeth N. Osborn and Elizabeth Redman [Redmond] joint marker (broken); personally read, 2018. Also, Greenwood County, South Carolina, Cemetery Records , 3 vols. (Greenwood: Old Ninety Six District Chapter, South Carolina Genealogical Society, 1996, 2008, 2010), 2:60.
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