Will of Abram Webb, Lowndes, Alabama

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Will of Abram Webb
Lowndes County, Alabama
Will Book C, pages 225-226

The State of Alabama
Lowndes County

I, Abram Webb being of sound mind make this my last Will and Testament.  I am 
part purchaser with Jesse Webb and Daniel Gordon of the tract of land known as 
the Major Francis Gordon place in such county, containing nine hundred acres 
the said land and my personal property being under mortgage to Geo. W. Stone, 
to secure the purchase money.  We are also negotiation with Henry brown and 
John Webb to let them or someone else into said purchase, they or he to become 
purchaser of one fourth of said land.

Now, that the said contract with Geo. W. Stone may be carried out in case of my 
death, I devise and bequeath all my lands and personal property equally to my 
wife, Eliza Webb, and her and my children and I appoint my wife Eliza Webb and 
my son John Webb to be Executrix and Executor of this will, and relieve them of 
giving bond as such.  And I desire and direct my said Executor and Executrix to 
carry on the plantation and deliver the crops, until the debt to said Stone is 
paid and to this end, to obtain from him, mules, tools, plantation supplies, 
and all things necessary to make crops, the same to stand pledged to him for 
what I or my Estate may owe him, and my Executor, as such may mortgage the same 
to him, for the purpose of making the security more formal.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name in presence of the 
subscribing witnesses.  
                   Dec. 29, 1885
                         his
                   Abram  X   Webb
                         Mark

Witnesses:
W. J. Garrett
John Webb

Before me, H. W. Caffey, Judge of the Probate Court for Lowndes County, 
Alabama, came W. J. Garrett, well known to me, who, being duly sworn deposes 
and says that he well knew Abram Webb for many years, and up to the time of his 
death, and that he was present at the time the paper was exhibited to him 
purporting to be the last Will and Testament of the said Abram Webb – was 
executed – that the said Abram Webb signed said instrument on the day it has 
date in his presence and in the presence of the other subscribing witness, to 
wit:  Geo. W. Stone & John Webb as his last Will and Testament, and that 
affiant and the other subscribing witness signed said instrument as witnesses 
thereto in the presence of each other and in the presence of said Abram Webb, 
and at his request, affiant further deposes and says that in his judgment the 
said Abram Webb was at the time he signed said instrument, of sound mind and 
capable of making his last Will and Testament.

Subscribed & sworn to                    W. J. Garrett
On this 10th day of April, 1886
H. W. Caffey, Probate Judge