Chambers Co. AL - Will of Columbus Franklin Bailey

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                      Will of Columbus Franklin Bailey
                                      
   State of Alabama }
   Chambers County }
   I, C. F. Bailey, being of sound and disposing memory do make and
   constitute and declare this to be my last will and testament, revoking
   any and all former wills made by me;
   1. It is my will that my just debts be paid as soon as practicable
   after my death.
   2. All the balance of my estate, I do will, bequeath and devise to my
   beloved wife, L. J. Bailey, during her natural life and after her
   death, I will and dispose of the balance of my property remaining as
   follows;
   3. I will, devise and bequeath to my son, J. F. Bailey, my home house
   and five acres of land the house now stands on, said five acres to be
   measured and laid off by my son, J. F. Bailey.
   4. It is my desire and will that all the remainder of my property be
   sold and equally divided among all my children, or incase of their
   death, their descendants, equally share and share alike and my son, J.
   F. Bailey, is to share equally with the others in this distribution. I
   hereby authorize and empower my executor hereinafter named to sell
   said property, either at public or private sale as he deems most
   beneficial to the estate and the heirs of estate and make said
   distribution among said heirs without obtaining any order from any
   court or of making any report of his conduct of my estate to any court
   of the land.
   5. I hereby nominate and appoint my said son, J. F. Bailey, executor
   of this my last will and testament with the above named full and
   complete powers and relieve him, as such, from making any inventory of
   my estate or of making any report to any court of his conduct as such
   executor of my estate and also relieve him of making any bond or
   giving surety as executor of this my last will and testament.
   Witness my hand and seal this 30th day of June 1930.
   
   C.F.Bailey(LS)
   
   Signed and Executed by said C. F. Bailey in the presence of each of
   the below named witnesses and they in the presence of each other and
   in the presence of the testator and at his request on the above named
   date.
   
   C. S. Moon
   
   B. A. Hodge
   
   State of Alabama }
   Chambers County }
   
   I, J. C. Grady, Judge of Probate in and for the County and State
   aforesaid, hereby certify that the within instrument has this day, in
   said court, and before me as the Judge thereof, been duly proven by
   proper testimony to be the genuine last will and testament of C. F.
   Bailey and that said will together with the proof thereof has been
   recorded in Will Record #6 and on Page 438. Given under my hand this
   the 3rd day of November, 1941.
   
   J. C. Grady, Judge of Probate (SEAL)
   
   J. C. Grady, Judge of Probate
   The State of Alabama,
   Chambers County
   Probate Court
   In the Matter of the Estate of C. F. Bailey, Deceased.
   Present Hon. J. C. Grady, Judge of Probate
   
   Before me, J. C. Grady, Judge of Probate, in and for said County,
   personally appeared in open Court C. S. Moon, who, having been by me
   first duly sworn and examined, did depose and say on oath, that he is
   a subscribing witness to the instrument of writing now shown to him
   and which purports to be the last will and testament of C. F. Bailey,
   deceased, late an inhabitant of this County, that said C. F. Bailey
   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
   affiant set his signature thereto on the day the same bears date as a
   subscribing witness to the same in the presence of said C. F. Bailey
   and B. A. Hodge and that such other witness subscribed his name as a
   witness in his presence and in the presence of said C. F. Bailey. That
   said C. F. Bailey was of sound mind and disposing 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 C. F.
   Bailey was in the say of the said date of said will of the full age of
   twenty-one years and upwards.
   
   C. S. Moon (LS)
   Sworn to and subscribed before me this 3rd day of November, 1941.
   
   J. C. Grady, Judge of Probate
   Filed: 3rd November, 1941