Will of Jerusha R. Crum, Lowndes, Alabama http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lowndes/wills/willbockc/jrcrum.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 ================================================================================ June 2001 Last Will and Testament of Jerusha R. Crum In consideration of the uncertainty of life, while in health of body and mind, I do make and proclaim the following instrument to be my Last Will and Testament. Item First: I wish my mother, Mrs. M. a. Crumpton, to retain the custody of my children during her life and afterwards my sister, Mrs. M. G. Dunklin, to take charge of them to be ____________ out of the funds of the farm or hiring of the Negroes ___ as the case may be. I wish them educated as liberally as their circumstances will admit. Item 2nd: I will my property kept undivided if thought best by my trustee or Guardian of my children until the eldest becomes of age or marries when it will be equally divided between them. Item 3rd: I will and bequeath unto my daughter, Mary Isa, my room furniture, my silver plate and jewelry and to my son, Dan Sam'l, my watch. The above articles to be kept by the custodian or guardian until the children arrive at the proper age to receive them. The room furniture, as aforesaid, to furnish the room of my daughter, Mary Isa, wherever she may be. Item 4th: I fully empower my Trustee, in every respect, to make contracts, to buy, sell or make titles as I would in my life, only being required to record my will, file an inventory of my goods and chattle, and make an annual settlement with the Court, as is usual, but to give no bond or security but to act as independently of court as practical. Item 5th: I constitute and appoint my brother, M. J. Crumpton, my trustee and Guardian of my children. Signed this fifteenth day of February, A.D., 1865. J. R. Crum Witnesses Jame M. Hardy B. H. Crumpton Ella J. Hardy Codicil to the Foregoing Will In case of the decease of my Brother, W. J. Crumpton, I wish my brother, B. H. Crumpton to act as the executor of my will and guardian of my children, as expressed above. Signed the fifth day of April, A.D., 1865 J. R. Crum Witnesses Jane M. Hardy Ella J. Hardy The State of Alabama, Lowndes County Probate Court of said County In the matter of the probate of the Last Will and Testament of Mrs. Jerusha R. Crum, Dec'd: Before me, James W. Graham, Judge of the said Court, personally appeared in open Court, Mrs. Jane M. Hardy and B. H. Crumpton, who, having been by me first duly sworn and examined on oath says that they are each subscribing witnesses to the instrument of writhing now shown to them and which purports to be the last will ad testament of J. R. Crum, deceased, late an inhabitant of this county, that said Jerusha R. Jenkins, since deceased, signed and executed said instrument on the day the same bears date, and declared the same to be her last Will and Testament and that affiiants set their signature thereto on the day the same bears, and as subscribing witnesses thereto in the presence of said testatrix, that said testatrix was of sound mind and disposing memory and ,in their opinion of deponents, fully capable of making her will at the time the same was so made, as aforesaid.Affiants further state that said testator was on the day of the said date of said will of the full age of twenty one years and upwards. Subscribed and sworn to before me Sept. 26, 1865 Jane M. Hardy James W. Graham B. H. Crumpton Judte of Probate The foregoing is a true copy of the original will, admitted to probate and recorded, Sept. 26th, 1865 and recorded January 19th, 1866.