Will of Nehamiah Hutchinson Chestnutt, Lowndes, Alabama

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Will of Nehamiah Hutchinson Chestnutt 
Lowndes County, Alabama
Will Book C, page 259


Calhoun, Lowndes County, Alabama:  I, Nememiah Chestnut of the County of 
Lowndes, State of Alabama, being of sound mind and memory make this my 
last will and testament.

I give and bequeath my estate and property, real and personal, which I now 
or hereafter may possess to my beloved wife, Caroline Frances Chestnutt.

I appoint my sons, J. T. Chestnutt, E. B. Chestnutt, N. F. Chestnutt and 
S. J. Chestnutt of Lowndes county, Alabama, as Executors without bond on 
this my last will.  This the 5th day of April, 1889.
                                                            N. Chestnutt

Witness:
Vincent Bell
Alex Stewart
B. H. Harbin


The said Nehemiah Chestnutt of Lowndes County, Alabama, on said April 5th 
signed and sealed this instrument and published and declared the same as 
and for his last will and we at his request and his presence and in the 
presence of each other have hereunto written our names as subscribing 
witnesses.

Vincent Bell
Alex Stewart
B. H. Harbin

State of Alabama, Lowndes county.  In Probate Court of said County.

In the Matter of the Probate of the Last Will and Testament of N. 
Chestnutt, dec'd.

     Before me, A. E. Caffee, Judge of said Court, personally appeared 
in open Court, Benjamin H. Harbin, who having been by me first duly 
sworn and examined, did and do depose and say on oath, that he is a 
subscribing witness to the instrument of writing now shown to him, and 
which purports to be the last will and testament of N. Chestnutt, dec'd, 
late an inhabitant of this County, that said N. Chestnutt, since deceased, 
signed and executed the said instrument of the day the same bears date, in 
the presence of affiant and the other subscribing witness, and declared 
the same to be his last will and testament and that affiant and other 
subscribing witness set their signatures thereto on the day the same bears 
date, as subscribing witnesses to the same in the presence of said testator, 
and each other at the request of testator, as witnesses, that said testator 
was of sound mind and disposing memory, and in the opinion of deponent fully 
capable of making his will as the time the same was so made as aforesaid.  
Affiant further states that said testator was on the day of said date of said 
will of the full age of twenty-one years and upwards.
                                                                 B. H. Harbin

Subscribed and sworn to before me this
13th day of Feby, 1893.

A. E. Caffee, Judge of Probate