Will of Matilda Parmer Grant, Lowndes, Alabama

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June 2003

Matilda was married first to Ephraim Parmer who was born in Maryland.  Matilda was 
born in South Carolina in about 1805.  Matilda married William Grant, Sr. on 
January 28, 1858.

State of Alabama  }
Lowndes County    }

Know all men by these presents that I, Matilda Grant of the County of Lowndes and 
State of Alabama, considering the uncertainty of life, and being of sound mind and 
memory, do make, declare, and publish this my last will and testament, hereby 
revoking all former wills made by me.

First:  I desire all my debts to be paid from the proceeds of the growing crop and 
the entire residue thereof to belong to my loving husband, William Grant.

Second:  I give and bequeath to my children, James S. Parmer, Rowan J. W. F. 
Parmer, Hillary G. Parmer, Mary K. Ewing, wife of Samuel T. Ewing, Clinton D. 
Parmer, Amanda A. Lassiter, wife of John E. Lassiter and my grandchildren Esiloma 
(?) H. Parmer and Mary Benjamin Parmer, heirs of my son Benjamin W. Parmer, 
deceased, all my Estate personal and real, or mixed, consisting of my plantation on 
which I reside together with improvements of every kind, all my Negroes, horses, 
cattle, hogs, sheep, goats, mules, household and kitchen furniture and farming 
utensils of every kind, to be equally divided among my children, share and share 
alike; my grandchildren above named to receive the share that would have been their 
father's.

Third:  I do nominate and appoint my son, Hillary W. [G.] Parmer, to be the 
Executor of this my last will and testament.

In testimony whereof, I have to this my last will and testament subscribed my name 
and affixed my seal this the sixth day of July, in the year of our Lord, one 
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.

                                  Matilda Grant (LS)

Signed, sealed, declared and published by the said Matilda Grant as and for her 
last will and testament in presence of us, who at her request and in her presence 
and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses hereto.

                                 F. C. Webb
                                 F. L. Ellis
                                 John H. Herlong

Stat of Alabama  }
Lowndes County   }  In Probate Court, Sept. 23rd, 1873

Before me, J. V. McDuffie, Judge of Probate in and for said County, comes F. L. 
Ellis, who in open Court, being duly sworn, says that he and F. C. Webb and John H. 
Herlong were present and saw Mrs. Matilda Grant sign an instrument of writing, 
purporting to be the last will and testament of said Matilda Grant, now deceased, 
which instrument is now shown to him, on the day of the date thereof that said 
instrument was then duly exhibited to them the day of the date thereof, and that 
they heard the said Matilda Grant then and there declare that the said instrument 
on writing was her last will and testament, and that they respectively subscribed 
their names as witness thereto, at the request of Matilda Grant and in her presence 
and in the presence of each other.  He further says that at the time of making said 
Will, the said Matilda Grant was of sound mind and disposing memory, of full age 
and under no constraint and that she died an inhabitant of this County.

Sworn and subscribed to before me                F. L. Ellis
This 12th day of August, 1872
J. Y. McDuffie
Judge of Probate