Lowndes County AlArchives Wills.....Dudley, Mary Robinson January 24, 1860
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Source: Lowndes County Will Book C, Page 20
Written: January 24, 1860
Recorded: February 29, 1864

The following will was transcribed EXACTLY as it was typed in the will book.  
This may be a typed copy of what was originally in the book when the court 
transcribed deteriorating pages.  

State of Alabama
Lowndes County

In the Name of God. Amen!

I, Mary R. Dudley of County and State aforesaid, being sound in mind and memory 
do make, constitute, ordain publish & declare this to be my last Will & 
Testament, hereby revoking all others.

Item 1st:  I wish all my just debts to be paid out of my Estate, not bequeath.

Second:  I will & bequeath unto my beloved daughter Cornelia Dudley my negro 
man, Willie also one cottage and bed stead, bed and furniture together with all 
the room furniture in my said daughter’s room, in fee simple.

Item 3rd:  I will and bequeath unto my beloved daughter, Laura T. Wyatt, wife 
of Todd Wyatt, my piano, in fee simple.

As witness my hand & seal this 24th day of January, 1860.

                                                              Mary R. Dudley 
(SEAL)

Signed, Sealed, published and subscribed
In presence of 
Thos. M. Williams
P. N. Cilley

The State of Alabama
Lowndes County

Personally appeared in open Court Thos. M. Williams, a subscribing witness to 
the foregoing testament paper who, being duly sworn, makes oath as follows:  
that he together with P. N. Cilly the other subscribing witness at the request 
of Mary Dudley in her kife time, sighad said paper as witnesses, in her 
presence & in the presence of each other, Said Mary Dudley having previously 
signed said paper in our presence, and further swore that at the time of 
signing said Mary Dudley was of sound, disposing mind & memory & did publish &b 
dealer the foregoing testamentary paper as her last will & testament.

Sworn to t is 29th day of Feb. 1864                 T. W. Williams
James W. Graham
Judge of Probate


Additional Comments:
Mary Robinson Dudley was born about 1796, the daughter of Cornelius Robinson 
and his wife, Elizabeth Pickett.  Cornelius before December 28, 1798 as his 
will was probated in the Montgomery Co., NC Court on that date.  Mary was but a 
toddler.  She married John Alston Dudley before 1813 as that is the year their 
daughter, Mary Alston Dudley, was born in NC.  John Alston and Mary Robinson 
Dudley settled at one time in Autauga Co., AL.  Their children were:  Mary 
Alston Dudley, wife of Eli Terry Robinson, of Lowndes Co., AL; Eliza Lillington 
Dudley, married Mr. McKenzie, deceased before this will date; Amanda P. Dudley, 
wife of J. M. Dissoway and William Winter Gordon, Martha Robinson Dudley, wife 
of James W. Napier Torrence; Cornelia Dudley, never married; and Sarah “Sallie” 
Dudley, wife of Tod Reginald R. Wyatt.  The daughter listed in the will as 
Laura T. Wyatt, wife of Tod Wyatt, was actually Sarah “Sallie.”  From family 
Bible records, Sallie married Tod on February 5, 1851.  Again, when the 
original will was transcribed, it is possible the transcriber had a hard time 
reading Sallie’s name.



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