Lowndes County AlArchives Wills.....McCall, Hugh C. February 17, 1877 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carolyn Golowka http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00012.html#0002972 March 17, 2006, 11:32 am Source: Lowndes County, Alabama Will Book C, Pages 185-187 Written: February 17, 1877 Recorded: April 23, 1883 Will of H. C. McCall Being of sound mind, for which I thank God, I make this my last will and Testament. I appoint my wife Lizzie T. McCall my Executrix and she is to qualify without bond or security and after my will is admitted to probate, she is to be relieved from making any settlement with the Courts, but the said Executrix shall have power to collect, invest, compromise, extend debts do my Estate and do anything in the management of my Estate that I could do always excepting the contracting of new debts, and any accounts or notes made shall not be binding on my Estate, but can use the profits, rents ______ for the support and maintenance of herself and children born in our wedlock as she may deem best. All of the above powers are to remain in force and effect as long as the said Executrix shall remain single. If she should marry again, then a Guardian shall be appointed for my child or children living, she be removed as Executrix, and my Estate divided according to the law of the State where y will is probated. Signed in presence this the 5th day of February 1877. H. C. McCall The undersigned subscribing witnesses hereby certify that H. C. McCall, who is personally known to me, signed the above instrument, which he declared was his last will in our presence and that we signed it as witnesses in his presence on the day the above bears date. D. T. McCall Lottie McCall The State of Alabama Lowndes County I, H. W. Caffey, Judge of the Probate Court in and for said State and County, do hereby certify that the within instrument of writing had this day, and in said Court, before me as Judge thereof, been duly proven to be the last will (genuine) and testament of Hugh C. McCall, deceased, and said will, together with the proof thereof, have been recorded in my office in Book of Wills No “C”, page 254-253. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this the 23rd day of April, 1883. The Last Will of Hugh C. McCall, deceased. Before me, H .W. Caffey, Judge of Probate in and for said County, personally appeared D. T. McCall, who being duly sworn says on oath that he is one of the witnesses to the paper which is now shown to him purporting to be the last will and Testament of Hugh C. McCall, deceased; that he subscribed his name to said paper as the said will, as a witness in the presence of said Hugh C. McCall and of the other subscribing witness that Lottie McCall the other subscribing witness subscribed her name as a witness in the presence of Hugh McCall, deceased, and of affiant on the day of the date thereof; that said Hugh C. McCall, dec’d, of the date of the making of said last will and testament was a citizen of the County of Lowndes, and State of Alabama and over the age of 21 years was in the opinion of the Affiant of sound and disposing mind and memory and fully capable of making his said last will’ that Hugh C. McCall signed said paper in the presence of Affiant and the other subscribing witness. Witness my hand this 23rd day of April AD 1883. H. W. Caffey Probate Judge The foregoing is a try copy of the original instrument, to-wit: the last will and testament of Hugh C. McCall, dec’d, filed for probate and record on the 22nd day of March AD 1883. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lowndes/wills/willbookc/mccall139gwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 4.1 Kb