Lowndes County AlArchives Wills.....Varner, Mary Belle June 28, 1898
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Source: Lowndes County Court House - Will Book C, Page 302
Written: June 28, 1898
Recorded: September 5, 1898

Will of Mary Belle Varner
Lowndes County, Alabama
Will Book C, page 302

The following is copied exactly as written in the Will book.  I have added 
information in brackets [ ] which are NOT in the will.  This will is apparently 
a copy of the original page in the will book, typewritten with several 
punctuation and spelling errors.  


State of Alabama
Lowndes County

Know all men by these presents; to-wit* That I, Mary Belle Varner, being of 
sound mind and realizing my condition and the uncertainty of life, and without 
any influence from others, I do hereby make this my last will, for the love and 
affection I have for my beloved husband, Charley Allen Varner, after my death, 
I desire that my said husband shall…shall…all of my earthly possession 
including real estate and personal property, that I no[w] have or may hereafter 
come into my possession of up till the time of my death.
To have and to hold to the said Charley Allen Varner his heirs and assigns 
forever.  And I do hereby give, devise, transfer and set over to the said 
Charley Allen Varner all of real and personal property that I may have at the 
time of my death, to have and to hold to the said Charley Allen Varner his 
heirs and assigns forever.

In witness whereof, I hereunto set my hand and seal this the 28th day of June, 
1898.

Witness:                                  Mary B. Varner (L S)
A.	J. Varner,
B.	M. V. Thomas.


State of Alabama
Lowndes County

I, W. C. Croly, Justice of the Peace in and for said County, hereby certify 
that t Mrs. A. J. Varner and Miss M. V. Thomas, subscribing witnesses to the 
foregoing conveyance, known to me, appeared before [me] this day and being 
sworn stated that Mrs. Mary B. Varner the grantor, voluntarily executed the 
same in the ipresencence [sic], that each of them attested the same in the 
presence of the grantor and in the presence of each other on the day the same 
bears date.

Given under my hand this the 27, day of July, 1898.
                                            W. C. Croly,
                                            Justice of the Peace

The State of Alabama
Lowndes

In the Matter of the Probate of the Last Will and Testament of Mary B. Varner, 
dec’d.

Before me, A. E. Caffey, Judge of Probate Court in and for the County and State 
aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court, A. J/ [sic] Varner, who having 
been by me first duly sworn and examined did, and does depose and say that she 
and M. V. Thomas are subscribing witnesses to the foregoing instrument of 
writing now shown to the said affiant and which purports to be the last will 
and testament of Mary B. Varner, deceased, late an inhabitant of this County, 
that the said Mary B. Varner, since deceased, signed and executed said 
instrument on the day the same bears date as a subscribing witness to the same 
in the presence  of said testatrix and at her request and in the presence of 
each other, and that said testatrix was of sound mind and disposing memory and 
understanding and in the opinion of affiant, fully capable of making her said 
will at the time the same was so made as aforesaid, and deponent further states 
that said testatrix was on the day of the date of said will of the full age of 
twenty-one years and upwards, and a resident of the County..

Subscribed and sworn to before me this fifth      A. J. Varner.
day of September, A.D. 1898.
A.	E. Caffee [Caffey]
Judge of Probate,
Lowndes County, Alabama.


I certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the Will and the testimony under 
which the same was probated ,September 5, 1898
 
A.	E. Caffee [Caffey]
Judge of Probate


Additional Comments:
Mary Belle Dickerson, daughter of Columbus C. & Sally H. Dickerson, was born 
August 5, 1876 and died July 19, 1898.  She married Charles Allen Varner,II,  
son of Charles Allen & Amelia Jane Thomas Varner, on February 27, 1895 in 
Lowndes County, Alabama.  Mary gave birth to Charles Allen Varner, III, on July 
8, 1898.  He died on July 13, 1898, a day before his mother. Both are buried in 
the Steep Creek Cemetery, Lowndes County as is Charles Allen Varner, II.

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