Lowndes County AlArchives Wills.....McCall, Sarah March 4, 1879
************************************************
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, 3:46 pm

Source: Lowndes County, Alabama Will Book C, Pages 257-258
Written: March 4, 1879
Recorded: February 5, 1894

State of Alabama, Lowndes County

I, Sarah McCall, of the county and state aforesaid being in sound heath and 
memory, and desirous of giving directions regarding my estate after my death do 
hereby declare the following to be my will:

It is my wish and desire that my daughter, Mrs. Christian Celestia Beckwith to 
have my house and I hereby bequeath to the said Christian Celstia Beckwith my 
house and the lot in Lowndesboro bounded as follows, to wit:  on the North by a 
street separating from the lot known as the Doctor Howard lot, on the East by 
the Main street o the town, on the South by the Brinson lot, and on the West by 
the Davidson lot, to have and to hold to the said Christian Celestia Beckwith 
during the term of her natural life, and afterward, to her issue surviving.  It 
is further my will and desire after necessary expensed and debts are paid, any 
personal estate remaining shall be equally divided between my children who may 
be living or their issue, to wit:  Julia Blair, Mary F. Davidson, Caroline 
Miller, Sarah Virginia Brinson, Christian Celestia Beckwith, and James E. 
McCall in six equal shares.  And I do hereby appoint   W. G. Beckwith, now of 
Montgomery County, executor to carry out the provisions of this will and it is 
my desire that he shall not be required to give bond for the executor of the 
will, but that he may without the instruction of the Court of Probate or 
Chancery, dispose of my estate as herein directed; and in dividing any property 
that may come into his possession, he may, for the purpose of subdivision, sell 
the same or divide without sale as may seem best.  In testimony where of I have 
hereto set my had and seal this the 4th day of March 1879.

                                                                   Sarah McCall

In presence of 
E. R. McCall
W. T. McCall

State of Alabama, Lowndes Co.}

This instrument of writing witnesseth that I Sarah McCall of the above county 
and State, do promise and give that part of my estate, which will at my death 
fall lawfully to Mary F. Davidson, to the W. G. and C. C. Beckwith's two 
children, namely Emmit and Ellen Beckwith.  Said est. (or Mary Davidson part) 
to be equally divided between Emmit Beckwith and his sister Ellen, provided 
that Mary Davidson should die with leaving a bodily heir.

In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and seal this the 15th day of 
August 1891.

                                                      Sarah McCall

In presence of
J. D. Blair
Mary Blair

State of Alabama
Lowndes County

Probate Court, Febry 5th, 1894

In the matter of the Probate of the last will and testament of Mrs. Sarah 
McCall, dec'd.

Before me, A. E. Caffee, Judge of said Court personally appeared in open Court, 
E. H. McCall, who being first duly sworn, deposes and says on oath, that he is 
a subscribing witness to the instrument of writing now shown to Affiant which 
purports to be the last will and testament of Sarah McCall, dec’d, late an 
inhabitant of this County, that said Sarah McCall signed and executed said 
instrument and declared the same to be her last will and testament of the day 
the same bears date in the presence of said Affiant and W. T. McCall who also 
signed the same with Affiant as witness thereto, and that affiant and said W. 
T. McCall set their signatures thereto on the day the same bears date as 
subscribing witnesses to the same in the presence and at the request of said 
testator; that said Testator was of sound and disposing memory and fully 
capable of making his will at said time and was of the full age of twenty-one 
years and upwards.

Sworn to and subscribed before me
Febry 4th, 1874.

A. E. Caffee, Judge of Probate                  E. R. McCall


Additional Comments:
A copy of this will was also found in the "loose papers" associated with 
Sarah's estate.

Sarah was a daughter of Duncan and Mary McCall and a sister of Mary McCall, 
wife of Hugh McCall, Duncan McCall, Catherine McCall Shelby, wife of William 
Shelby, Ann McCall McLemore, wife of Hiram McLemore, Christian McCall, and 
Margaret McCall.  Ann, Christian and Margaret were daughters from Duncan's 
second marriage to Catherine.  Many are buried in the McCall-McRae Cemetery, 
Lowndes County, AL.  Sarah is buried in this cemetery next to her husband, John 
McCall.  John died October 17, 1849 leaving Sarah to raise their children:  
James Ewell, Julia A., Mary Frances, Sarah Virginia, Christian Celeste, and 
Laura Caroline "Callie" McCall.

File at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lowndes/wills/willbookc/mccall143gwl.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/

File size: 5.2 Kb