Will of Henry Gooch Bird, Lowndes, Alabama

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Will of Henry G. Bird
Lowndes County, Alabama
Will Book B, pages 202 - 203

Know all whom it may concern, that I, Henry G. Bird, of the county of Lowndes 
and state of Alabama, being of good mind and memory, and knowing the uncertainty 
of this mortality, do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner 
and form following, viz.:

1st  I desire to be decently buried after I am dead and that all my just debts 
be paid.

2nd  I make my worthy wife, Louisa Bird, sole heir to this my last will and 
testament giving unto her all manner of property, both real and personal, of 
which I may died possessed.  I also give and bequeath unto her all manner of 
interest in any property whatsoever in which I may died signed and possessed, to 
act, and do with or dispose of at her own option.

3rd  I desire that no other action be had on this my last will and testament 
than the men recording of the same.

4th  I make and appoint my worthy wife, Louisa Bird, whom I have made sole heir 
to this my last will and testament, Executrix to the same.

In witness whereof I have this     day of     in the year of our Lord one 
thousand eight hundred and forty one affixed my name and seal.

In presence of                                    Henry G. Bird (SEAL)
Bartlett Hilliard
Green W. Kendle
Wm Shepperd


The State of Alabama  }      Personally appeared    
Lowndes County          }     in open Court before

Me, Edward H. Cook, Judge of the county court in and for said county, the above 
named Bartlett Hilliard and William Shepperd, two of the subscribing witnesses 
to the foregoing will or testamentary papers, who being first duly sworn on the 
Holy Gospel of Almighty God, deposeth and saith that they say the above named 
Henry G. Bird, whose name is subscribed thereto, sign, seal, publish and declare 
the same to be his last will and testament, in his lifetime, that they, 
deponents, together with Green W. Kendle subscribed their names thereto as 
witnesses at the request of the said Henry G. Bird in his lifetime and his 
presence on the day and year therein mentioned, and in the presence of each 
other and that at the time of making said will and the signing the same, the 
said Henry G. Bird was of sound and disposing mind and memory.

Sworn and subscribed                              Bartlett Hilliard
Before me this the 12th day                      William Shepperd
Of December A.D. 1848
Edward H. Cook, J.C.C.L.C.