Dallas County AlArchives Wills.....Olds, Charlotte December 9, 1870 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carolyn Golowka http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00012.html#0002972 September 7, 2006, 10:25 pm Source: Dallas County Will Book C, Pages 9-10 Written: December 9, 1870 Recorded: January 13, 1871 In the name of God, Amen. First I will that my body be buried in the graveyard in Benton, Ala. Near my dear son Chester A. Olds. Second I will that after paying my burial expenses that my dear grandchild James Old, to have all my real estate, and personal property. Third I will that the amount which John Curry owes me (one hundred and fifty dollars) be the interest of Ella Curry in said Estate, she being my granddaughter. Fourth I will that Wm. H. May be the Executor of this my last will and testament, this the ninth (9th) day of December in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Seventy at my home. Witnesses Charlotte Olds Elizabeth R. May her Martha A. X Palmo mark State of Alabama Dallas County Probate Court of said County In the matter of the Probate of the last will and testament of Charlotte Olds deceased, before me J. F. Cousley Judge of the said Court personally appeared Elizabeth R. May, who having been by me first duly sworn and examined, did and does depose and say under oath that she is a subscribing witness to the above instrument of writing now shown to her, and which purports to be the last will and testament of Charlotte Olds deceased late an inhabitant of this County. That said Charlotte Olds, decd., signed and executed said instrument in the presence of affiant and the other subscribing witness on the day the same bears date and declared the same to be her last will and testament, and that affiant together with Martha Ann Palmo, set her signature unto on the day the same bears date as subscribing witnesses to the same, in the presence o said testatrix and of each other. That said testatrix was of sound mind and disposing memory and in the opinion of the deponent, fully capable of making her will, at the time the same was so made as aforesaid. Affiant further states that said testatrix was on the day of the date of said will of the fill age of twenty one years and upwards. Subscribed and sworn E. R. May This 12th day of Jan (June?) 1871 J. F. Cousley Judge of Probate File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/dallas/wills/olds34nwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 2.8 Kb