Madison County AlArchives Court.....CABANISS, Et Al, Charles P. August 19 1882
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Source: Probate Court Of Madison County, Alabama
Written: August 19 1882

DEPOSITION OF DRURY M. DAVIS, WITNESS FOR PROBATE OF CHARLES P. CABANISS, 
DEC’D, INTESTATE, Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama

Deposition of Drury M. DAVIS witness sworn and examined under and by virtue of 
a Commission issued out of the Probate Court of Madison County, Ala. In the 
matter of the Petition of S. D. CABINESS, admr. Of Chas P. CABINESS, acct. to 
sell real estate for distribution.

The said Drury M. DAVIS being duly sworn to speak the truth, the whole truth, 
and nothing but the truth doth depose and say as follows:
To the first Inty he says:
ANS. 1:  I do—He died without having been married.  He left surviving him one 
brother, Septimus D. CABANISS, who is the administrator of his estate, and one 
sister, Mrs. Sarah A. H. WHITE, who has since died, leaving the following 
children surviving her to wit:  Caroline C. WHITE, James C. WHITE, Louisa A. 
WHITE, Septimus C. WHITE, Susan, otherwise called Susannah, WELLBORN, wife of 
Elias WELLBORN & Chillion Q. WHITE, and the following grand children, who are 
children of her deceased daughter Virginia O. MARTIN, who died in her lifetime 
towit: Sally WHITSETT, wife of William WHITSETT, Lillian WINDHAM, wife of 
Eustace WINDHAM, Joseph MARTIN, Charles MARTIN, Virginia MARTIN, and Caroline 
MARTIN.

Said Charles P. CABANISS also had two brothers, who died in his lifetime 
leaving children, namely William M. CABANISS, who left surviving him a 
daughter, Lucy SNEDICOR, who is the wife of Frank P. SNEDICOR.  Alfred B. 
CABANISS who left six children surviving him—namely, Elizabeth, alias Bettie, 
CABANISS, William CABANISS, Lucy CABANISS, Alfred CABANISS, Chares and Susan 
CABANISS.

He also had two sisters who died in his lifetime leaving descendants who are 
heirs at law of said intestate, to wit..Elizabeth H. TATE and Martha W. ALLEN. 
That the descendants of his said sister Elizabeth  who survived him are as 
follows, to wit, one son John M. TATE, Charles TATE, the son of her deceased 
son A. C. TATE, also a son of her deceased son, Charles C. TATE, sometimes 
called Clem C. and sometimes called Charles TATE.  Martine WILEY, daughter of 
her deceased daughter, Historia Wellborn, Alfred Wellborn, son of her deceased 
daughter, Mira WELLBORN, Elizabeth alias Betty CAPPS, Lucy MAYBERRY, and 
William B. WELLBORN, children of Lucy WELLBORN, a deceased daughter of the said 
Elizabeth H. TATE.

That the descendants of the said Martha W. ALLEN, who are heirs at law of said 
intestate Charles P. CABANISS are as follow to wit: one son Drury M. ALLEN, 
four daughters, Caroline C. ALLEN, Sarah SMART, Araminta BLEDSOE, and Lucy A. 
W. DAVIS and four children of a deceased daughter of the said Martha W. ALLEN, 
Virginia TURMAN who died in the life time of the said Charles P. CABANISS and 
whose children are named Nancy TURMAN, Charles B. TURMAN, Martha C. ALLEN, and 
Mary W. TURMAN.



To the 2nd Inty, he says:
ANS 2.: I know the lands mentioned.

To the 3rd Inty, he says:
ANS 3: They Cannot.

To the 4th Inty, he says:
ANS 4: They Cannot.

To the 5th Inty, he says:
ANS 5: I think of nothing further that is deemed *undecipherable*

                                           D. M. DAVIS

I, J. C. Green, one the of the Commissioners in said Commission named, do 
hereby certify that the evidence of the witness, Drury M. DAVIS, was taken down 
under oath, and subscribed by him in my presence, on the 19th day of August, 
1882, at my office in Huntsville in the said County of Madison, State of 
Alabama and that I have personal knowledge of the personal identity of said 
witness, that he was sworn and examined as above stated and that his evidence 
was taken down in his own language, and was subscribed by him in my presence, 
and that I am not of kin, or counsel for either party to their cause, nor in 
any way interested in the result thereof.
Witness my hand and seal,
                                         J. C. Green (seal)
                                         Commissioner

Additional Comments:
SOURCE; Copy of deposition of probate records for Charles P. Cabaniss, probate 
record nos. 3700 and 3707
Surnames found in record:  Allen, Bledsoe, Cabaniss, Capps, Davis, Green, 
Martin, Mayberry, Smart, Snedicor, Tate, White, Whitsett, Wiley, and Windham

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