Will of Clarissa E. King Coleman, Monroe, Alabama

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Note:  Clarissa King Coleman was the second wife of James G. Coleman.  She
was the daughter of William & Elizabeth King of Old Darlington District, SC.
Clarissa was the sister of Melissa King, who married Daniel Witherington in
Conecuh County, AL.

Clarissa and James Coleman are living in Monroe County, AL on the 1850
Census, she was age 53, born in SC.  He was 61, born in SC.


Last Will & Testament of Clarissa E. COLEMAN, (nee KING)

Transcription done by Bill King.

Clarissa Coleman, Will Dated 28 September 1859
Monroe County, AL Wills & Deeds, Page 405, W&DE
Filed for Probate on 21 December 1859

STATE OF ALABAMA
MONROE COUNTY
    I, Clarissa E. Coleman of said County & State, being mindful of the
uncertainty of life and wishing to declare my intentions & wishes as to the
disposition of whatever estate I may have at my death, do hereby make &
declare My Last Will & Testament as follows:
    First, all my just debts are to be paid & satisfied in full.
    Second, I hereby give devise & bequeath unto my three children, William
E. Coleman, James T. Coleman and Clara E. Coleman all the property of every
kind and description real, personal, or mixed which I may die possessed of
or in anyway entitled to, either in law or equity to be equally divided
among my said three children; William, James and Clara, share & share alike.
In case either of my said children should die before me leaving children,
then my will is that his or her share under this my will, shall go to the
children of such deceased child.  But if either of my said three children
die before me, leaving no children living at his or her death, then my will
is that all my said Estate before ?? (unreadable word) shall go to the
children or child surviving me at the time of my death.
    Third, For reasons which I believe are good, it is my will that my whole
Estate shall be divided among my three children before named to the
exclusion of all other persons.  My daughters Martha J. May (?), Sarah A.
Linam and my grandson, Richard B. Linam are to take no part or position of
my estate nor is any of it to go to the heirs distributee or representatives
of my deceased daughter, Elizabeth Linam, late the wife of Elijah Linam.
    Fourth, I hereby nominate and appoint my sons William E. Coleman and
James T. Coleman my executors to carry out and execute this my last will &
testament.  In witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed (?) my name and
affixed my seal, this the twenty-eighth day of September, One Thousand Eight
Hundred and Fifty Nine (1859).
      Clarissa E. Coleman
      Her  X  Mark   (Seal)

The foregoing instrument on pages 1, 2 and 3 wassubscribed by the said
Clarissa E. Coleman in our presence and acknowledged by her to each of us as
& for her last will & testament and we, at this testari, request & in her
presence have signed our names a witnesses thereto on this the 28th day of
September 1859.
 T. E Feagin, J.J. Simpkin (?), and Stephen Byrd, Jr., Witnesses