Lauderdale County AlArchives Court.....Holland, James L. "et Al" June 23, 1873
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Source: Copies Of Documents In Lauderdale County Probate Office
Written: June 23, 1873

Probate Record for Estate of James Holland:
  1873    To the Hon. T.T. Allington   Judge of Probate Court of Lauderdale Co. 
Alabama
      The undersigned, the widow and heirs of JAMES HOLLAND decd.  desire and 
intend to reside together and cultivate the land we have inherited from our 
deceased husband and father, as tenants in common in propestion to our 
respective rights, and we desire to keep all the stock, farming implements, 
household and kitchen furniture without a sale or division thereof, at this 
time therefore in the final settlement of the estate of said intestate we agree 
that you render a decree ascertaining the value or each distributes share, but 
that it remain undivided until we or any one of us, desire to withdraw our 
portion from the common stock.  and as the notes and judgments to be 
distributed cannot be equally divided we agree that our respective interest may 
be ascertained in them and we will receive them jointly to be held, collected, 
and divided equally amongst us.  And we agree that the decree of the Court may 
be rendered in accordance with this agreement.   Witness   June 23, 1872.  
Witnesses:  BASHEBA HOLLAND, PHEBE S. GEORGE, JANIE HOLLAND, JOHN HOLLAND  
ANDREW J. GRESHAM
 
   1873    Received of JOHN WILLIAM AND WILLIAM HOLLAND adm's of the estate of 
JAMES HOLLAND decd.  viz, seventeen hundred and twenty seven dollars & fifty 
cents in money and seventeen hundred & thirty eight dollars & fifty cents of 
the notes & judgments due said estate, each, and we also acknowledge the 
receipt of all the personal property of said estate, and this is a full 
acquittance and release of said administrators from all further liability to 
us, as administrators of said estate, June 23, 1873.  Witnesses:   ANDREW J. 
GRESHAM     BESHEBE HOLLAND   PHEBE S. GEORGE   JANIE HOLLAND     JOHN 
HOLLAND     Recorded:   Minute Book E   page 573

   1873   Probate Court   June 23, 1873  JOHN WILLIAMS & WILLIAM HOLLAND(adm. 
of JAMES HOLLAND decd.)  vs. JANE HOLLAND & others-Heirs at law of said 
intestate.  Summary of legal document:  Notice of settlement of estate 
published in Times Journal, a newspaper in Florence, AL for three successive 
weeks and no exceptions were made.  Order & decree by the court that said 
account be approved, confirmed and recorded as the final settlement of the 
administrators.  Said administrators have received in assets of estate $13, 
762.17 and the expenses of administration plus commissions of administrators 
amount to $1211.00 and for advertising and other expenses, $34.65, leaving in 
the hands of the administrators to be divided among the widow and heirs the sum 
of $8, 637.65 in money. 
Furtherm the administrators have in hand, as shown by account notes and 
judgments, the amount of $8,692.49 and that there is personal property 
estimated at the value of $9,010.00  The following are entitled to 
distribution:  BESHEBA HOLLAND, the widow of intestate, WILLIAM HOLLAND, one of 
the administrators,  JANE HOLLAND, JOHN HOLLAND, AND PHEBE SUE GEORGE(widow) 
children of said intestate.  The said distributes have filed in this court 
their agreement and desire that the personal property, stock farming 
implements, household and kitchen furniture shall not be divided but remain the 
property of all as tenants in common so that they can live together and 
cultivate the land inherited by them until they or some one of them desire to 
withdraws their postive from the common stock.  It is decreed that that PHEBE 
HOLLAND, WILLIAM HOLLAND, JANE HOLLAND, JOHN HOLLAND, & PHEBE SUE GEORGE 
recover their portions of said estate the sum of $1727. 53 and $1738.50(notes & 
judgments).  (note: Why is Phebe Holland and Phebe Sue George listed 
separately?  Phebe Holland and Phebe Sue George are the same person).

Additional Comments:
Other names in documents:  Besheba Hollana, Phebe S. George, Janie Holland, 
Andrew J. Gresham, John HOlland, John Williams, William Holland

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