Probate Records of Lavinia Adams, Lowndes, Alabama http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lowndes/court/probate/ladams.txt ================================================================================ USGENWEB NOTICE: All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information is included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed and copyrighted by: Susan Riggs ================================================================================ February 1998 Lavinia Adams was the daughter of John and Mary "Polly" Adams. She was the wife of Jacob Adams in SC. The State of Alabama---Lowndes County To any sheriff of the state of Alabama--Greetings: You are hereby commanded to summon Eliza Scott, Nancy Brown, Thomas Hawkins and wife Elizabeth, Julia A. Davis, Solomon Adams, Bill (?) Adams, Wm. Davis, and C.W. Knight or his attorneys Bains and _____. to appear at the Supreme Court the first Monday next to defend and answer to an appeal which A.M. Simmons adm of Lavinia Adams dcd has this day sued out, returnable to the next term of the Supreme Court, to be holden in Montgomery on the first Monday in June next, to reverse a Judgment which the said Eliza Scott, Nancy Brown, Thomas Hawkins & wife, Julia A. Davis, Solomon Adams, B.W. Adams, and W. Davis and C. Knight recovered against the said A.M. Simmons adm. at the Special Term of the Probate Court of Lowndes County, held 23rd day of March 1859. Herein fail not, and have you then and there this Writ. Witness, E.H. Cook, Judge of said Court, at Office this 20 day of May A.D. Eighteen hundred and fifty nine and of American Independence the 85 year. Issued 20th day of May, 1859. E.H. Cook, Judge *************************************************************************************** To the Hon. E.H. Cook Judge of the Probate Court of Lowndes County The petition of A.M. Simmons respectfully shows to your honor that Lavinia Adams, late of said county, died intestate and possessed of the following: viz the southeast 1/4 of the section twenty-nine township thirteen range distance (?) in Lowndes County and your petitioner is now acting as her administrator. That the Estate is indebted; and that there is no personal estate of said dcd; and that a sale of the real estate is necessary for the purpose of paying the debts and distribution among the heirs of law to wit: Eliza Scott, Nancy Brown, Basil M. Adams, John S. Adams, William H. Adams, Elizabeth Adams, Julia Adams living and who reside in the county. In consideration of the premises, your petitioner prays that an order be granted for him to sell said land for the payment of the debts and division in accordance with the terms of the statute. A.M. Simmons, Adm I deny the allegations of the foregoing petition and call for ____of the _____. John J. McCaw, Guardian ad litem