Will of Jeff D. Caffey, Sr., Lowndes, Alabama

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Will of Jeff D. Caffey, Sr.
Will Book D, pages 428 - 430

State of Alabama  }
Lowndes County    }     December 5th, 1932

Know all men by these presents that I, Jeff D. Caffey, Sr., being of sound mind 
and memory and being award of the uncertainty of life, do hereby make, declare, 
and publish this my Last Will or Codicil thereto by me  at any time heretofore 
made.

First.  I do hereby will and direct that my just debts shall be paid by 
Executors, herein named, as soon as may be found to be practicable.

Second.  I do hereby will and bequeath to my wife, Rosa, the homestead and 160 
acres of land afound it.  After her death, I want the house to go to Rosa D., 
the youngest daughter, and the land divided equal between here children.

Third.  I do hereby will and bequeath to my legal children the remaining part of 
my property, 550 acres of land, divided equally.

Fourth.  I want my daughter Tee Lilli???? Share to go to her six children.

Fifth.  Cawthom in the northwest corner, Tee's children in the northeast corner, 
Jeff Davis, JR. between them and my wife Rosa's on the north side.  James 
Calloway, where he now resides, Rosa D. on the South side, Clemmie's on the east 
side where Edd Gordon now resides.

Sixth.  I do hereby nominate, constitute and appoint Clemmie Caffey Brayboy and 
James Caffey to be my Executors of this my Last Will and Testament, and I do 
hereby expressly exempt them from making any bond before qualifying as such 
Executor.

Signed           Jeff D. Caffey
Witnesses:       Caroline C. Rudulph
                 Perry Rudolph

State of Alabama  }     I, W. H. Lee, Judge of Probate in and for Lowndes 
Lowndes County    }     County, Alabama hereby Certify that the foregoing Will 

has this day, before me as Judge, been duly proven, to be the last genuine Will 
and Testament of Jeff D. Caffey, deceased, and the same has been admitted to 
record as such, this the 30 day of March, 1923.

                       W. H. Lee
                       Judge of Probate
                       Lowndes County, Ala

Proof of Will

The State of Alabama   }
Lowndes County         }     Probate Court

In the matter of the Probate of the Last Will and Testament of Jeff D. Caffey, 
deceased.

Before me, W. H. Lee, Judge of Probate Court in and for the County and State 
aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court Carolyn C. Rudulph who, having been 
by be first duly sworn and examined, did and does depose and say that she is a 
subscribing witness to the foregoing instrument of writing, now shown to the 
said affiant and which purports to be the last Will and Testament of Jeff D. 
Caffey, since deceased, late an inhabitant of this County, that the said Jeff D. 
Caffey, now 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 affiant set her signature thereto on the day the same bears date, as a 
subscribing witness to the same, in the presence of said testator and at his 
request and that said testator was of sound mind and disposing memory and 
understanding and, in the opinion of affiant, fully capable of making his said 
Will at the time the same was so made as aforesaid.  And deponent further states 
that said testator was on the day of the date of said Will of the full age of 
twenty-one years and upward and a resident of this County.

Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 27 day of April A.D. 1933

                               W. H. Lee
                               Judge Probate Court
                               Lowndes County

Filed April 27th, 1933
Recorded in Will Book Vol. D, pages 429 & 430

                               W. H. Lee
                               Judge Probate Court