Lowndes County AlArchives Wills.....McFerrin, Robert M. July 4, 1863
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Source: Lowndes County Court, Will Book C, Page 81
Written: July 4, 1863
Recorded: May 13, 1867

Will of Robert McFerrin
Lowndes County, Alabama
Will Book C, page 81

Know all men by these presents, that I, Robert McFerrin of the County of 
Lowndes and State of Alabama, considering the uncertainty of this life and 
being of sound memory, do make, declare and publish this my last Will and 
Testament, that is to say:

I will and bequeath unto my beloved wife, Melvin[a] McFerrin all my entire 
Estate, both personal, real of whatever kind or quality it may consist, to have 
and to hold to her own proper use so long as she remains my widow, but should 
my said wife enter into another marriage contract, then and at that time it is 
my will that my property be equally divided between my wife and children 
without favor or affection.

And further, it is my will that my said wife, Melvin[a] McFerrin settle all my 
debts and receive and receipt for all moneys due me without administration on 
my Estate, and I hereby authorize and empower her so to do and act, and it is 
my will that my said wife manage my property as she may think best of herself 
and children, my object being for her to settle up my business and retain my 
property together and carry on the farm for her interest and for the support of 
the family without troubling her with an administration of my Estate and 
without keeping any account between the children until she marry the second 
time or until her death.

In testimony whereof, I have to this my last will and testament subscribe[d] my 
name and affixed my seal on this the 4th day of July, 1863.

Robt. McFerrin (SEAL)

Signed, sealed, declared and published by the said Robt. McFerrin as and for 
her [sic] last will and testament, in presence of us, who at his request, and 
in his presence, and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as 
witnesses hereto.

E. D. Lavender
R. D. Twombly


The State of Alabama, Lowndes County.

Before me, James W. Graham, Judge of the Probate Court of said County, 
personally appeared, in open Court, E. D. Lavender, who having been by me duly 
sworn and examined, did and does depose and say on oath, say 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 Robert McFerrin, deceased, late 
an inhabitant of this County, that said Robert McFerrin, 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, ant 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 Testator, that said Testator 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 made as aforesaid.

Affiant further states that on the day of the date of said Will of the full age 
of twenty-one years and upwards.

Subscribed and sworn to May 13, 1867    E. D. Lavender
James W. Graham
Judge of Probate.

The above or foregoing instrument is a true copy of the original Will of 
Robert. McFerrin admitted to Probate and record on the 13 day of May A.D. 1867 
and recorded.

James W. Graham
Judge of Probate


Additional Comments:
Robert M. McFerrin was born October 12, 1825, a son of John & Margaret 
McFerrin  He married Melvina Annis Moorer, daughter of John L. S. Moorer and 
Roxanna Livingston.  Melvina was born September 17, 1829 and she died May 23, 
1918.  Robert died January 12, 1867 and was buried in the Hopewell Cemetery, 
Palmyra, Lowndes County, Alabama.  They had at least 10 children:  John Ellis, 
William Henry, Rebecca Elizabeth, Edgar J., Sarah "Sallie" J., Jesse Grier, 
Eugenia M., Robert J., Duane J., and Melvina A.

Melvina remarried on Mar 28, 1869 to John William Flowers.

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