Will of John Gresham, Lowndes, Alabama

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October 2001


Will of John Gresham
Lowndes County, Alabama
Will Book C, Page 119

State of Alabama
Lowndes County

In the name of God, Amen! I, John Gresham, of said State and County, of lawful 
age, of sound mind and disposing memory, do make and establish this as my last 
will and testament as follows:

1st:  It is my will that, after my death, all my legal and just debts be first 
paid.

2nd:  I give and bequeath to my youngest child, Tolbert, six thousand dollars, 
to be paid him out of my Estate as property justly due him through his mother, 
deceased.

3rd:  I then further will and desire, after paying my just debts and the six 
thousand dollars specially bequeathed to my son, Tolbert, in cause second, that 
my whole estate, both personal and real, remaining, e equally divided each to 
share and share alike, between my three (four) children: John, Francis, Robert 
M. and Tolbert Gresham.

4th:  I further will and desire that in dividing my Estate as in clause three, 
there is no change to be made for any advances made either of the children 
during my life time.

Given under my hand and seal in the presence of witnesses, January the eleventh, 
Eighteen hundred and seventy-two.

In presence of                                       Jno. Gresham (  )
W. W. Golson
S. Gresham

The State of Alabama
Lowndes County

This day personally came before me, J. V. McDuffie, Judge of Probate Court, in 
and for said County and State aforesaid, W. W. Golson, who, being duly sworn by 
me, doth depose and say as follows:

First, affiant is one of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing paper 
writing purporting to be the last will and testament of John Gresham, dec'd, 
that affiant was present together with other subscribing witness, S. Gresham, at 
the house of the said John Gresham, on the day the same bears date in Lowndes 
County, Ala., and that the said John Gresham signed the said paper writing on 
the day the same bears date as his last will and testament, and signed the same 
in the presence of affiant and the other subscribing witness and that affiant 
signed the same as a subscribing witness with the said S. Gresham, who also 
signed as a subscribing witness, that said testator signed the same in the 
presence of said affiant and the other subscribing witness as last will and 
testament and that affiant and said Gresham signed the same as subscribing 
witnesses in the presence of each other subscribing witness and in the presence 
of said testator, that said testator was at the time of making and executing 
said last will and testament of sound mind and disposing memory, and over the 
age of twenty-one years.

Sworn & subscribed to in open Court this      W. W. Golson
19th day of February, 1872
J. V. McDuffie,
Judge of Probate