Will of Mary Coker, Lowndes, Alabama

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Will of Mary Coker
Lowndes County, Alabama
Will Book B, page 261

State of Alabama
Lowndes County

I, Mary Coker, in and for the State and County aforesaid, for the good will 
and affection I have for my nephew, James L. McFarland, give unto him at my 
death my portion or share of the estate of John B. Coker, deceased, also all 
notes and money of mine now in my hands.

                                    her
January 9th 1852               Mary  X  Coker
Witnesses                          mark
Edwin Baldwin
K. J. Meriwether

The State of Alabama
Lowndes County

Personally appeared before me, Edward H. Cook, the Judge of Probate for said county, 
in open court, the above named Edwin Baldwin, who being sworn on the Holy Evangelical 
of Almighty God, deposeth and saith that he saw the above named Mary Coker sign the 
foregoing deed of gift, or last will and testament, that he, the deponent, subscribed 
his name as a witness thereto in the presence of said Mary Coker, and that he also 
saw the other subscribing witness, k. J. Meriwether, sign the same in the presence of 
said Mary Coker, and all in the presence of each other on the day and year therein mentioned.  
And that at the time of signing the same, said Mary Coker was of sound and disposing mind 
and memory, and that it was her voluntary act.

Sworn to in open court this
19th day of Feby 1852
E. H. Cook, J.C.C.L.C.

The foregoing is a true copy of a will admitted to probate 19th Feby 1852 and 
recorded 26th Nov 1852.
                    E. H. Cook, J.C.C.L.C.