Baldwin County AlArchives Wills.....Stapleton, David Crockett October 14, 1901
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Source: Will Book B, Pages 160-161
Written: October 14, 1901
Recorded: April 15, 1907

State of Alabama     }
Baldwin County      }
Village of Daphne   }
                                    In the name of God amen:
I, David Crockett Stapleton, being of sound m
ind disposing memory, and realizing the uncer
tainty of human life, and being desirous of
making provisions for my beloved wife Ida Cummins
Stapleton, after my decease, do hereby make constitute
declare and publish this as my last will
and testament, hereby revoking all wills prev
iously made if any.
After my decease, it is my wish that my
body be decently interred and all my just {debts}
paid.
I bequeath and divise to my beloved wife
Ida Cummins Stapleton, all the estate I am possessed
of at the time of my decease of every kind,
nature, and description both real, personal
and mixed.
It is my desire and wish that my said wife
shall be appointed as administrator of my estate
and that she shall not be required to give any
bond for the performance of said duties as
said administratrix.
Witness my hand and seal this fourteenth day
of October AD 1901, at Daphne Alabama.
Signed, sealed & pub-
lished in presence of
Frank S Stone             	}
George B Bryant         }          David Crockett Stapleton
Walter Cummins         }
We Frank S Stone and George B Bryant and Wat
Cummins, the the witnesses to the foregoing will of David
Crockett Stapleton, hereby certify that we signed the
same at the request of David Crockett Stapleton
in his immediate presence and in the immediate
presence of each other, on the day the same be
date, and being this October fourteenth AD 1901

The State of Alabama
Baldwin County                       Probate Court
            In the matter of the Probate of the last
will and testament of David Crockett Stapleton
deceased.
      Before me J H H Smith, Judge of said Court person
ally appeared in open Court Frank S Stone
who having been by me first duly sworn and
examined did and do depose and say on oath
that he is a subscribing witness to this instrument
of writing now shown to him and which purports
to be the last Will and Testament of David Crockett
Stapleton deceased late an inhabitant of this County
that said David Crockett Stapleton since deceased
signed and executed said instrument on the
day the same bears date and declared the same
to be his last Will and Testament and that offiant
set his signature thereto, on the day he same bears date,
as a subscribing witness to the same in the presence
of said David Crockett Stapleton and at his request
and that such other witness subscribed his name
as a witness in his presence and in the presence
of said David Crockett Stapleton.  That said David
Crockett Stapleton was of sound mind and dispos-
ing memory, and in the opinion of deponent, fully
capable of making his will at the time the
same was so made as aforesaid.  Affiant further
states that said David Crockett Stapleton was
on the day of the date of said will of the full age
of twenty one years and upward.
                                     Frank S Stone
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 15 day
of April 1907
            {seal}               J. H. H. Smith Judge Probate

The State of Alabama  }
Baldwin County           }I, J H H Smith, Judge of Probate
Court in and for said County and State, hereby
certify that the within instrument of writing has this
day in said Court and before me as the Judge thereof
been duly proven by the proper testimony to be
the genuine last will and testament of David Crockett
Stapleton deceased, and that said will together with
the proof thereof have been recorded in my office
in Book "B" of Wills at pages 160-161.
            Given under my hand and seal this the
15th day of April 1907.
                                     J. H. H. Smith
                                     Judge of Probate Court


Additional Comments:
Note:  Walter L Cummings (Cummins) b Dec 1865 aged 35 was one of 2 boarders in
28/28 David C Stapleton & Ida on the 1900 Baldwin Co, AL census.  He was Ida’s
brother.  Frank S Stone 36 was a lawyer 17/17 Baldwin Co, Al census.

David Crockett was the son of Solomon Stapleton & Elizabeth A White (found on
Baldwin Co, AL census records from 1840-1880). David is found on the following
Baldwin Co, AL census records with his parents:  1840, 18 Nov 1850 in
household 383/383 & 23 Jun 1860 in household 479/370.  David & 1st wife, Sarah
E Overton, are in household 2/2 Baldwin Co, AL 1 Jun 1870 (they married 10 Oct
1860 in Baldwin Co, AL). 10 Jun 1880, he & 2nd wife(?), Rose, are in 209/219
Tatumville (now Fairhope).  14 Jun 1900 finds David with 3rd wife, Ida, in
28/28 Pct 7, District 5 Courthouse, Montrose, Baldwin Co, AL (they married 29
Apr 1895 in Baldwin Co, AL.)
Ida Cummins was the daughter of James St. John Cummins & Caroline Davis Taber,
who were enumerated both in Ward 2 & Ward 6 of Mobile in 1860.  I have this
family on census records in Mobile thru 1880 (didn't look any farther).


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