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This file was contributed and copyrighted by: Elaine Nall Bay ================================================================================ July 2002 Last Will of Samuel Ingram Montgomery Co., Alabama Will Book 2, Page 221 State of Alabama Montgomery County In the name of God Amen I Samuel Ingram being of sound mind thanks to God for his mercies do make this my last will and testament and dispose of my personal estate in the following manner viz – Item 1st - To my wife Elizabeth I do give and bequeath the following negroes Lamb a negro man, Maria a woman and Lucy a woman to be entirely at her own disposal and to dispose them as she pleases at her death. I do further bequeath to my wife Elizabeth a negro boy named Hendry during her natural life and at or after her death I do give and bequeath said boy Henry to my grandson Edwin Ingram son of James Ingram. I do further give and bequeath to my wife Elizabeth, all my household and kitchen furniture my stock of cattle and hogs, a black mare and a young black horse to be entirely at her disposal. Item 2nd I do give and bequeath to my son William Ingram the following negroes, one negro woman named Frankey one named Jinney, one man named Willis, one named Hampton, one woman Darcas one named Sylva. To my grandson James C. Ingram son of William Ingram I do give and bequeath a negro boy named Jack. To my granddaughter Eliza C. Ingram daughter of William Ingram I do give and bequeath a negro girl named Isabela To my grandson Isham Ingram a negro boy named Shadrich To my grandson Benjamin T. Ingram son of William Ingram I do give and bequeath a negro boy named....(page missing)...give and bequeath a negro girl named Melinda Item 5th To my daughter Nancy Faust I do give and bequeath the sum of one hundred dollars. To my grandchildren, heirs of my son John Ingram decd viz Green, Rebecca, Samuel, Martha, Ailsey and James I do give and bequeath one hundred dollars each - which bequests together with that to Nancy Faust, making the sum of seven hundred dollars is to be paid at my decease to the respective claimants by William Ingram, James Ingram and James Hill an equal share out of their own estates and not out of any funds belonging to any estate. It is my will and desire that the parents of those grandchildren to whom I have willed negroes, and I do hereby appoint William Ingram, James Ingram and James Hill respectively the guardians of the property that I have bequeathed to their children with the exception of the one willed to my wife during her lifetime, until they respectively become of age, and if either of those appointed guardians should die before all the children become of age, then I appoint my sons William Ingram and James Ingram and my son in law James Hill jointly executors of this my last will and testament In witness whereof I Samuel Ingram have hereunto set my hand and seal this thirteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine. his Samuel X Ingram mark Signed sealed & acknowledged in the presence of Sylvanus Walker John Derick Hilliard Derrick Receipt - I do desire and will that the first living child born of the negro woman Fanny bequeathed to John T. Ingram be given to Margaret Elizabeth Ingram daughter of James Ingram under the same provision & guardianship of the former bequests to my grandchildren. This postscript made before the will was assigned is acknowledged before the subscribing witnesses. The State of Alabama Montgomery County Personally appeared in open court Sylvanus Walker, John Derrick and Hilliard Derrick subscribing witnesses to the within instrument who maketh oath that they saw the deceased execute the same as his last will and testament that he was at the time of a sound disposing mind and memory that they signed as witnesses in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other. Sylvanus Walker John Derick Hilliard M. Derrick Sworn to and subscribed before me October 19th 1840 B.S. Bibb, Judge Probated and ordered to be recorded B.S. Bibb, Judge Montgomery Co. Will Book 2/pg. 221