Stephen Bearden - Pauper's Petition (for further research)

I do NOT yet know if this record refers to the same Stephen Bearden b. c. 1836 in NC, who is my gg-grandfather. I am in the process of trying to obtain copies:
Preliminary Descriptive Inventory
Agency: G i l m e r County Record Group NO. 161
Sub-group: Records of the Probate Court Sub-group NO. 2
Series: Miscellaneous Records 38
Page 2
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Series No.
Description of series and its contents:
-Box Con t e n t s Location
18 1845-1940 4401-41
Pauper's p e t i t i o n ; Stephen Bearden, 1887