ESTATE OF THOMAS JOHNSON, PIKE COUNTY, ALABAMA
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ESTATE OF THOMAS JOHNSON, PIKE COUNTY, ALABAMA.  Wife:  Margarette Isabella
Fletcher Hooks Johnson.  They are buried at Pleasant Hill Primitive Baptist
Church, near the Needmore Community of Pike County, Alabama.  Their known
children were:  Matilda Johnson (m. J. E. B. "Lawyer") Hattaway; James
Thomas Johnson (m. 1st Ella Harris, 2nd Valle Gunter); Minnie Johnson
(married Calvin Pool); Mary L.. Johnson (never married); Willie Johnson
(never married; was deaf-mute); Mittie Adell Johnson (married Willie
Jacksosn Floyd); John Luther Johnson (m. 1st Eula Thompson; 2nd Arrie
Sharpe); Viola Johnson (married 1st Hilary Herbert Harris, 2nd J. E. B.
"Lawyer" Hattaway, 3rd a Phillips); George Solomon Johnson (died at age 10,
cause unknown); Gertrude Johnson (married Walter Monroe Reeves).  From which
of Thomas and Margarette Johnson's children did Leatha Worthington, Thelma
Peoples, Irene Dubose, Orbra Pool, Andrew J. Bracewell, Minnie E. Bracewell,
and Dora M. Bracewell descend from?  They are listed as grandchildren and
great-grandchildren in the estate-settlement papers.  Any information would
be appreciated.


IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF THOMAS JOHNSON, DECEASED

IN PROBATE COURT, SPECIAL TERM.  DECEMBER 12, 1922.

	Whereas, certain lands, to-wit:  The W ½ of NE ¼, NE ¼ of SW ¼, and
NW ¼ of SE ¼, Section 34, Township 11 and Range 21, situate in Pike County,
Alabama, belonging to the estate of Thomas Johnson, deceased, has been sold
by A. M. Baker, Commissioner duly and legally appointed by this Court to
sell said lands; and whereas said lands sold for the sum of Four Thousand
Dollars ($4,000.00)  which sale has been in all things duly ratified and
confirmed by this Court, and said sum having been turned over to the Judge
of this Court by said Commissioner, to be distributed among the heirs to
said estate:  And whereas it has been made to appear by evidence to the
satisfaction of this Court that the heirs to said estate are as follows,
to-wit:
	James T. Johnson, Mary L. Johnson, Mittie A. Floyd, Viola Hattaway,
John L. Johnson, and Gertrude Reeves, each of whom are entitled to
one-seventh (1/7th)of the proceeds of said lands; and Leatha Worthington,
Irene Dubose, Thelma Peoples, and Orbra Pool, each of whom are entitled to
one thirty-fifth portion (1/35th) of the proceeds of said estate; and Andrew
J. Bracewell, Dora M. Bracewell, and Minnie E. Bracewell, each of whom are
entitled to one one-hundred fiftieth (1/150th) interest in the proceeds of
said estate.
	And whereas the costs of this procedure and taxes due on said lands
amount to the sum of Two Hundred Sixty-Five and 14/100 Dollars ($265.14),
leaving a balance of $3,734.86 to be distributed among said heirs, now
therefore it is hereby ordered and decreed by this Court, that the costs of
this procedure and the taxes due on said lands first be paid out of the
proceeds of the sale of said lands, and the sum of $3,734.86 to be
distributed among said heirs in the following manner:

To James T. Johnson	$533.55
To Viola Hattaway	$533.55
To Mittie A. Floyd	$533.55
To Mary L. Johnson	$533.55
To John L. Johnson	$533.55
To Gertrude Reeves	$533.55
To Leatha Worthington	$106.71
To Thelma Peoples	$106.71
To Irene Dubose	$106.71
To Orbra Pool		$106.71
To Andrew J. Bracewell	  $35.57
To Minnie E. Bracewell    $35.57
To Dora M. Bracewell      $35.57

	It further appearing to the Court by the certified copy of
guardianship presented by James T. Johnson, that the said estates of Orbra
Pool, Andrew J. Bracewell, Dora M. Bracewell, and Minnie E. Bracewell, by
the Probate Court of Covington County, Alabama, in which said minors reside;
it is therefore:
	Ordered and decreed that the distributive shares of Orbra Pool,
Andrew J. Bracewell, Dora M. Bracewell, and Minnie E. Bracewell, said
minors, in the estate of Thomas Johnson, deceased, be turned over to said
James T. Johnson, guardian as aforesaid.