Will of Richard Sessions Hickson, Montgomery, Alabama

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NOTE:  Richard Sessions Hickson was the son of John Hickson, Williamsburg District,
       South Carolina.  Richard, and his sister Ann Hickson Bostwick, wife of Henry
       H. Bostwick, were named in John Hickson's will.  Source:  History of 
       Williamsburg, by William Willis Boddie, 1923, copyright renuewed 1950,
       reprinted 1980, 1992, 1999 by the Reprint Company.  

       Richard was married to Sarah Strong Hickson McMurry, widow of John McMurry and
       sister of Henry H. Bostwick.  Richard & Sarah Hickson came to Alabama with
       her brother sometime in the late 1810s or early 1820s.

       Notes added by Carolyn Golowka

Will of Richard Sessions Hickson
Montgomery County, Alabama
Will Book Vol. 2, pages 59 - 60

Alabama            }
Montgomery County  }  In the Name of God, Amen.

I, Richard S. Hickson, of the State & County aforesaid being weak in body but of sound mind 
and memory do make and ordain this my last Will & Testament in manner and form following, to wit:

1st  I give my Soul to Almighty God who gave it to me and my body to the dust from whence it 
     came, to be interred in a Christian like manner.

2nd  It is my will and desire that all my just debts be paid together with my funeral expenses.  

3rd  After my just debts are paid it is my will and desire that the residual of my estate be 
     kept together for the maintenance and support of my family until the death or intermarriage 
     of my beloved wife, Sarah S. Hickson.

4th  I give and bequeath to my wife, Sarah S. Hickson, one third part of my estate to dispose 
     of as she thinks proper at her decease.

5th  At the death or intermarriage of my wife, it is my will and desire that guardians be 
     appointed for my children, James Harvey Hickson and Eliza Elmira Hichkon, and my estate, 
     excepting the one third part given to my wife as aforesaid, be equally divided between them.

6th  And lastly I do nominate and appoint my brother, James Hickson, and my friend William B. 
     Haralson, Executors and my beloved wife Executrix of this my last Will and Testament hereby 
     revoking all other wills by me heretofore made.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal 
this the 26th day of August 1826.

Witnesses                     R. S. Hickson  (SEAL)
John Sessions
William Manning
James G. Eden

The State of Alabama  }
Montgomery County     } Personally came James G. Eden before me. N. E. Benson, Judge of the County Court of said 
County and made oath that he was present and saw Richard S. Hickson execute the foregoing instrument of writing as his 
last will and Testament that the said Testator was at the time of signing the same of a sound and disposing mind, 
that John Sessions and William Manning subscribed their names as witnesses together with the deponent in the 
presence of each other and in the presence of the said Testator and at his request.

Sworn and Subscribed
Before me 21st March 1827           James G. Eden
N. E. Benson, J.C.C. M.G