Lowndes County AlArchives Wills.....McCall, Solomon P. December 2, 1865
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Source: Lowndes County, Alabama Will Book C, Pages 72-73
Written: December 2, 1865
Recorded: April 20, 1866

The State of Alabama
Lowndes County

I, Solomon P. McCall, do make and declare the following as my Last Will and 
Testament.

1st:  I nominate and appoint my two brothers, D. T. McCall and H(C) C. McCall 
my Executors to carry out the provisions of this Will.

2.  It is my will that my said Executors should have power, at any time, if 
they should it to be to the best interest of my wife and children, to sell the 
plantation on which I now reside, and purchase other lands with the money 
obtained therefore; or loan the money out at interest or invest the money in 
any way that they may think to be to the interest of my Estate.

3.  It is my will that my said Executors by authorized and empowered to 
purchase any real estate in any town they may think to be for the best interest 
of my wife and children for my Estate; and that they be also authorized to sell 
the same whenever they think it to the best interest of my Estate, so to do, 
and to invest the proceeds in any way that they may think best.

4.  It is my will that when my daughters receive their portion of my Estate, my 
Executors be authorized to convey to them for their sole and separate use, 
independent of and apart from the use of any husband whom they may marry, and 
that all real estate which they may inherit from me go to them for their sole 
and separate use as aforesaid.

5.  It at the time of my death I should be owner of any other real estate than 
that already mentioned, I authorize my said Executors to sell the same whenever 
they may think it to be to the interest of my Estate to do so, and invest the 
proceeds in any way that they may think best for the interest of my Estate.

                                              S. P. McCall

Signed, sealed, published and declared as the last will and testament of said 
S. P. McCall in our presence by said S. P. McCall in our presence and signed as 
witnesses in the presence of the Testator this 2nd day of December, A.D. 1865.

B. J. Drummond
John J. Daniel

State of Alabama,
Lowndes County

Probate Court of said County, January 15th, 1866

In the matter of the Probate of the Last Will and Testament of S. P. McCall, 
deceased

Before me, James W. Graham, Judge of the Probate Court of said County, 
personally appeared B. J. Drummond and John J. Daniel who having been by me 
first respectively duly sworn and examined do and did depose and say on oath, 
that they are each subscribing witnesses to the instrument of writing shown to 
them, and which purports to be the last will and testament of S. P. McCall, 
late an inhabitant of this County, deceased, that said S. P. McCall, since 
deceased, signed and executed said instrument on the day the same bears date, 
and declared the same to be his last will and testament, and that Affiants set 
their signatures thereto on the day the same bears date, as subscribing 
witnesses thereto in the presence of said Testator, and that said Testator was 
of sound mind and disposing memory and, in the opinion of deponents, fully 
capable of making his will at the time the same was so made as aforesaid.

Affiant further states that said Testator was on the day of the date of said 
Will, of the full age of twenty-one years and upwards.

Subscribed and sworn to before me                          John J. Daniel
January 15, 1866                                           B. J. Drummond
James W. Graham
Judge of Probate

The foregoing is a true copy of the original will admitted to probate and 
record in this Court on the 15th day of January 1866, and recorded the 20th day 
of April 1866.

                                                                                
Jmes W. Graham
Judge of Probate




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