Lowndes County AlArchives Wills.....Gary, Catherine April 8, 1876
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Source: Lowndes County Will Book C, Pages 196-197
Written: April 8, 1876
Recorded: October 27, 1884

The State of Alabama
Lowndes County

I, Catherine Gary of the State and County aforesaid being of sound mind and 
disposing memory do hereby make and publish this my last will and testament.

I commit my soul to God who gave it and invoke his mercys and blessings items I 
leave behind of the which I make the following disposition of my property.

Item First:  I give and bequeath to my beloved daughter L. J. Holmes the sum of 
Five Dollars ($5.00) as her full and entire share in my Estate both real and 
personal.

Item Second:  I give and bequeath to my beloved children Cornelia L. Gary and 
Sarah A. R. Gary all of my real Estate consisting of the southwest quarter of 
section three, township fourteen, range thirteen (S.W. 4, Sec 3, T14, Range 3) 
containing Five Hundred Sixty acres, more or less, to be equally and 
impartially divided between themselves.  Should any of the children named in 
this Item Second died unmarried, the interest or change of such descendant is 
to descend and invest to the survivor of them to have and to hold to them or 
survivor forever in fee simple.

Item Three:  I give and bequeath all my personal property of whatever kind and 
description whatever to my beloved children, Corando [sic} L. Gary and Sarah A. 
R. Gary to be equally and divided between them, that is to say, co---half to 
each of them, and should either of them died, then the survivor shall take the 
whole of said personalty [sic] in the same manner as provided for ?? Item as to 
Rialty.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and on this the 8th day of 
April, A.D. 1876.

                                                             her
                                                    Catherine X Gray
                                                             mark

Signed, sealed and published in the presence of the testator after she had 
declared the same to be her last will and testament and subscribed by us at her 
request in her presence and in the presence of eachother on the day above 
written.

1.	D. J. McCord
2.	R. H. Riggs.


The State of Alabama
Lowndes County

In Probate Court Oct. 8th, 1884.

Came this day D. J. McCord who being sworn, duly says that he is the same 
person whose name appears as a subscribing _ to the paper now exhibited to him 
purporting to be the last will and testament of Catherine Gary, deceased; that 
he attested the same in the presence of said Catherine Gary, and R. H. Riggs 
the other subscribing witness signed his name as a witness in his presence and 
in the presence of the testatrix, at her request, on the day the same bears 
date, and said Catherine Gary declared the same to be her last will and 
testament.  Affiant further says that said Catherine Gary was at the time fo 
her death a resident citizen of said County and over the age of twenty-one 
years, and in the opinion of the witness of sound mind and memory.

                                                                                
 D. J. McCord
Sworn & subscribed in open Court
this 8th day October 1884
                                                                                
 H. W. Caffey
                                                                                
 Judge of Probate

The foregoing is a correct --- instrument received for record this 29th day of 
September 1884 and recorded October 27th, 1884.


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