Will of John F. Browning, Lowndes, Alabama http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lowndes/wills/willbookb/jfbrowning.txt ==================================================================== USGENWEB PROJECT NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Project Archives to store this file permanently for free access. This file is copyrighted and contributed by: Carolyn Golowka ==================================================================== March 2001 John F Browning was a son of William and Elizabeth Atkinson Browning. The children of William and Elizabeth Atkinson Browning were: John F. Browning, dates unknown Henrietta E. Browning, b. Oct. 22, 1805, d. Oct. 24, 1834 Pemelia Browning, b. Sept. 9, 1806, d. Dec. 16, 1826, married William Browning Haralson on Apr. 3, 1823 in Dallas County, Alabama Albert Gallatin Browning, b. Nov. 22, 1807, d. Oct. 24, 1934 Eliza Browning, b. about 1809, d. after 1880, married George Walker on Mar. 4, 1829, Montgomery County, Alabama Julia Ann Browning, b. Apr. 11, 1811, d. May 14, 1842, married David A. Steele on Oct. 4, 1831 in Lowndes County, Alabama James Monroe Browning, b. June 10, 1817, d. Aug. 3, 1839 Egbert Browning, b. Nov. 11, 1822, d. Sept. 5, 1836 Emily Browning, b. about 1830, married John D. F. Williams Jan. 9, 1849 in Lowndes County, Alabama Henrietta, Pemelia, Albert, Julia Ann, James Monroe, and Egbert are all buried with their parents in the Mt. Gilead/Trickem Cemetery near Benton, Lowndes County, Alabama Will of John F. Browning Will Book B, page 82 Lowndes Co., AL I, John F. Browning, of Lowndes County, Alabama, being now in Albemarle County, Virginia, do make this my last will and testament. I give and bequeath my rifle gun to my friend Reuben Mundy of Lowndes County, Alabama. I give and bequeath all my books to my brother James M. Browning. I give and bequeath all the rest of my estate o property, real and personal including my interest in lands in the aforesaid Lowndes County and all other estate, right and interests to which I am or at my death may be entitled to be equally divided between my said brother James and my sister Emily Browning of the same County. I appoint James M. Browning Executor of this my Will and I desire that he may not be required to give security for the execution of that trust. In witness whereof, I have hereunto put my hand and seal this 28th day of July eighteen hundred and thirty eight. John F. Browning (seal) Signed, sealed, acknowledged, published And declared by John F. Browning as for his Last will and testament before us who subscribed our names as witness hereto in his presence at his request John D. Bradley (seal) Simson A. Watts (seal) Charles Minor (seal) I believe that my sister Emily’s full name is Emily E. Browning, but James appeared so certain that she had not a middle name that I was _____ to leave the E out. There can be no doubt about whom I mean by Emily Browning, and if it should turn out that she has a middle name and any advantage is taken of her on that account to cut her of from enjoining what little I have left her, I hope that whoever takes such advantage will meet with that contempt indignation which his or her baseness will deserve. John F. Browning State of Alabama Lowndes County Personally appeared in open Court Simson A. Watts and being duly sworn upon the Holy Gospels of God desposeth saith that he was present and heard John Browning the decedent in his lifetime acknowledges that he did sign, seal and publish the foregoing instrument in writing as his last Will and Testament and that he was at the time of his signing the same of sound disposing mind and memory and that the said Simson A. Watts did with John D. Bradley and Charles Minor sign the same as witnesses in the presence of said John Browning, dec’d, in his lifetime and al in the presence of each other. Sworn to in open Court and subscribed this 9th day of March, 1840. S. A. Watt John Varner, Clerk