Will of George Lee Mushat, Lowndes, Alabama http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lowndes/wills/willbockc/glmushat.txt ================================================================================ USGENWEB NOTICE: All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information is included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed and copyrighted by: Carolyn Golowka http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00012.html#0002972 ================================================================================ February 2002 Will of G(eorge) L(ee) Mushat Lowndes County, Alabama Will Book C, page 6 State of Alabama } Know all men by these presents that I, G. L. Mushat, Lowndes County } being of sound mind and memory, do constitute, make, publish and declare this my Last Will and Testament. I do give and bequeath to my beloved wife, Judith P. Mushat, all my Estate of every description, real, personal, and mixed, all my slaves, lands, debts due to me, and all choses (choices?) in action and stock of every description, and every manner of right to property I have both legal and equitable. To have and to hold all of said property to her, her heirs and assigns. I hereby further declare it to be the true meaning and intent of this instrument as well as it's legal effect, that if I survive my said wife, that this Will and Testament shall be revoked and null and void. I further hereby nominate, constitute and appoint my beloved wife, Judith P. Mushat, the sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament, and my whole Estate being all devised and bequeathed to her alone, I desire that in the event of her surviving me, and becoming my Executrix, she may be excused from entering into bond and security as in ordinary cases of administration. In testimony of which, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 25th day of February 1859. G. L. Mushat Signed and sealed by said G. L. Mushat in our presence and we subscribe our names to this Last Will and Testament as witnesses in his presence and in the presence of each other on the day and year above named. W. D. Simonton (L.S.) W. H. Burdett (L.S.) In the Matter of the Probate of the Last Will of George L. Mushat, before Hon. James W. Graham, Judge of Probate for Lowndes County, Alabama: W. H. Burdett, a witness for the proponent, Mrs. J. P. Mushat, being produced, sworn and examined on oath, says that he saw George L. Mushat, deceased, sign the within written paper as his Last Will and Testament, and declared the same to be his Last Will and Testament on the day the same bears date to- wit: on the 25th day of February, says that the Testator signed the same of said day and year in his, this witnesses presence, and also in the presence of W. D. Simonton, the other subscribing witness, and that this witness and said Simonton signed their names thereto as witnesses on the day the same bears date, at the request of the said George L. Mushat, and in his presence and in the presence of each other, that witness was well and intimately acquainted with the Testator for four or five years before his death, was often in his company, and at his home, and conversed freely and frequently with him during that time, and says in his opinion said Testator was of sound and disposing mind and memory at the time of making and signing his Last Will and Testament, and witness also says that the within is the identical paper so made by the Testator as his Last Will and was so declared by him in the presence of the witness aforesaid at the time of his signing the same, and that said Testator died on or about the 5th day of July, 1862, and was a residing citizen of said County of Lowndes in said State, but was killed in battle near Richmond, Virginia. Subscribed and sworn t Aug. 7th, 1862 W. H. Burdett James W. Graham, Judge of Probate Will, together with the proof thereof, admitted to Probate and Record, is a true copy of the original and ordered by this Court on the 7th day of August, 1862, and recorded the 24th day of October, 1862.