Will of Burrell B. Brown, Lowndes, Alabama

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Will of Burrel B. Brown
Lowndes Co., AL 
Will Book C, page 8

State of Alabama, Lowndes County     In the Name of God, Amen.

I, Burrell B. Brown, being of sound mind and knowing it is appointed 
for all men once to die, make this my Last Will and Testament.

1st:  I will my soul to God, and my body to the tomb.

2nd:  I will my land to my beloved wife, Saphronia Brown, so long as 
thinks proper to live on the premises, unless she should marry again. 
I that event, the land to be sold and the money equally divided between 
her and my son, William Abel Brown.

3rd:  It is my will provided my wife Sophronia lives on my said premises, 
for her to have the labor of my servant man, Archa, for two hears free
 of hire.

4th:  It is my will that all other effects which I have, money, notes,
slaves, and so be equally divided between my wife, Saphronia, and 
my son, William Abel.

5th:  It is my will that my wife, Saphronia, act as sole Executrix 
to close up my Estate, and I do request that John A. Broughton of 
Morgan County, Georgia, act and be appointed Guardian for my son, 
William Abel Brown.

In sincerity to the above, I hereby subscribe my name and affix my 
seal in the presence of three witnesses this November the 16th day, 1861.

                                            Burrel B. Brown. (LS.)

Subscribed in the presence of 
Thomas E. Branscomb
J. L. Driskell
Wilson Knox


The State of Alabama, Lowndes County.     Probate Court of Said County.

Before me, James W. Graham, Judge of said Court, personally appeared in 
open Court, J. L. Driskill and Wilson Knox, who having been by me first 
respectively duly sworn and examined, did and do depose and say on oath 
that they are each subscribing witnesses to the instrument of writing 
now shown to them, and which purports to be the last will and testament 
of Burrel B. Brown, deceased, late an inhabitant of said County, that 
said Brown, 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, and that affiant set their signatures thereto on the day the 
same bears date, as subscribing witnesses to the same in the presence of 
said Testator, that said Testator was of sound mind and disposing memory
and in the opinion of deponents, fully capable of making his will at the 
time the same was so made as aforesaid.  Affiants further state that 
said Testator was on the day of the date of said Will of the full age 
of twenty-one and upwards.

                                            J. L. Driskill
                                            Wilson Knox

Subscribed & sworn to before me
This 6th day of Sep. 1862
James W. Graham,
Judge of Probate.