Will of Samuel W. Lee, Lowndes, Alabama

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Will of Samuel W. Lee
Lowndes County, Alabama
Will Book C, page 87

In the Name of God, Amen!  I, S. W. Lee, of the State of Alabama and 
County of Lowndes, being of sound mind and memory, Blessed be God, for 
the same, do make and publish this my last will and testament.

1st:  It is my desire and will that all my just debts be paid.

2nd:  I wish all my Estate to be kept together both real and personal 
property by my beloved wife, Nancy, during her natural life or 
widowhood for the use of her benefit and that of my children, and if 
any of my children should marry during my wife's lifetime, I give her 
the right to help them in any way she may think right and proper, and 
after her death, then I desire all my Estate both real and personal to 
be equally divided among all my children by lot, if it can be done, by 
equally dividing the lots, if not, by sale of same, or so much thereo 
as may be sufficient to equal the lots.

3rd:  I do nominate and appoint my beloved wife, Nancy, to be Executrix 
of this my last will and testament.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal in 
the presence of the undersigned witnesses and in the presence of each 
other, this eighth day of December, in the year of our Lord, One 
thousand eight hundred sixty-four.
                                    Samuel W. Lee (SEAL)
Witnesses:
Jas. D. Moorer
Jos. Soles.


State of Alabama  }
Lowndes County    }  Probate Court of said County.

Before me, James W. Graham, Judge of the said Court, personally 
appeared Joseph Soles, in open Court, who, having been duly sworn on 
oath, says that he and James D. Moorer are subscribing witnesses to the 
will of S. W. Lee, now shown to him, that said S. W. Lee, late an 
inhabitant of said County, but now dec'd, that said Deceased signed and 
executed the said instrument on the day the same bears date, and 
declared the same to be his last will and testament, and that witness 
and said James D. Moorer set their signatures thereto on the day the 
same bears date, 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 futher 
states that Testator was on the day of the date of said Will of the 
full age of twenty-one years and upwards.

                                     Jos. Soles
Subscribed and sworn to Nov. 7th, 1867.
James W. Graham,
Judge of Probate