Will of Pleasant Cox, Lowndes, Alabama

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Will of Pleasant Cox
Lowndes County, Alabama 
Will Book C, page 7, 
dated  June 30, 1862, Proved Oct. 6, 1862

Know all men by these presents that I, Pleasant Cox of the State of 
Alabama and County of Lowndes, considering the uncertainty of life 
and being of sound mind and memory do make and publish this my Last
 Will and Testament.

First:  I give and bequeath unto my son-in-law Buford Goggans and 
Daniel J. Stough my son-in-law the following described property to 
be equally divided after my death, to-wit:  One sorrel mare with her 
increase and also all my stock I am posessed with at my death and also 
three feather beds with the bed clothing and bedsteads, and also three 
pots, one oven and one spider and also all my plantation tools, said 
property after my death to be sold and publick outcry to the highest 
bidder, and the proceeds to be equally divided between the said Bhuford 
Goggans and Daniel J. Stough, and I also give and bequeath unto my 
sons-in-law Bhuford Goggans and Daniel J. Stough, all property, real 
or personal, that may come to me by heir ship or otherwise, before or 
after my death with the exception of Five Dollars, I give and bequeath 
unto my son, William D. Cox, and I also give and bequeath unto the 
heirs of my daughter, Martha Ann Jemina Stough,  wife of Andrew Stough, 
but now deceased, Five Dollars.

Second, I nominate and appoint Bhuford M. Goggans and Daniel J. 
Stough, my sons-in-law, to execute this my last Will.  In witness 
whereof I, Pleasant Cox, have hereunto set my had and seal this 
June 30th, 1862.

                                                 Pleasant Cox, her mark

Signed, sealed in the presence of 
Attest:  W. E. A. McQueen
            Simeon Stough (his mark)


The State of Alabama, Lowndes County.      Probate Court.

Before me, James E. Graham, Judge of the Probate Court of said county, 
personally appeared Simeon Stough who having been by me duly sworn, 
does and doth depose and say on the oath that he and W. E. A. McQueen 
are each subscribing witnesses to the instrument of writing now showed 
to him and which purports to be the last Will and Testament of Pleasant 
Cox, deceased, late an inhabitant of this County, the same bears date 
and declared the same to be his last Will and Testament, and that 
affiant set his signature thereto, and that said W. E. A. McQueen set 
his signature thereto both as subscribing witnesses to the same in 
the presence of said Testator, that said Testator was of sound mind
 and disposing memory, and in the opinion of deponent, 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.

                                                       Simeon Stough, his mark

Subscribed and sworn to before me,
This 6th day of October, 1862.

James W. Graham
Judge of Probate.


The foregoing is a true copy of the original Will, together with 
the proof thereof, admitted to Probate and recorded in this Court
 on the 6th day of Cot. 1862, and recorded the 13th day of April, 1863.

James W. Graham,
Judge of Probate