WILL OF GEORGE HOOKS, PIKE COUNTY, ALABAMA
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WILL OF GEORGE HOOKS, PIKE COUNTY, ALABAMA.  Wife:  Matilda (Sessions)
Hooks.  (Matilda Sessions Hooks remarried, to a William W. O. Thompson, they
had no children.)  The known children of George and Matilda (Sessions) Hooks
were Robert Melvin Hooks (m. 1st Nancy Turnipseed, 2nd Martha Grant), Siddy
Jane Hooks (m. William L. Mann), George Thomas Hooks (m. Malissa Virginia
Browden), Sarah Ann "Sally" Hooks (m. Marion Sims "Dock" Wilson), and
Margarette Isabella Fletcher Hooks (m. Thomas Johns(t)on).    Does anyone
know where George Hooks, Matilda (Sessions) Hooks Thompson and William W. O.
Thompson are buried?  The Pike County Censuses show George and Matilda
living in the China Grove and Orion Communities.  Any information would be
appreciated.


WILL OF GEORGE HOOKS

 In the name of God Amen.  I George Hooks of the County of Pike and State of
Alabama, being of sound mind and memory, and considering the uncertainty of
this frail and transistory life, do therefore make, ordain, publish and
declare, this to be my last Will and Testament.  That is to say, first,
after all my lawful debts are paid and discharged, the residue of my Estate,
real and personal, I give, bequeath, and dispose of as follows to-wit:  To
my beloved Wife, the land and appurtenances situated thereon known discribed
as the farm where she lives in the county of Pike and State of Alabama, now
possessed by me during her widowhood.  But if she should marry then all of
the Estate shall be sold and divided equally between my children or there
heirs who may be living at time and I also want her to have a chiles part
should she marry.

Likewise I make constitute and appoint my Son Robert M. Hooks and Matilday
Hooks to be Executors of this my last will and testament hereby revoking all
former wills by me made.  In witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my
name and affixed my seal, the fourteenth day of August in the year of our
Lord one thousand Eight hundred and Sixty (14 August 1860).

The above-written instrument was subscribed by said George Hooks in our
presence, and acknowledged by him to each of us, and he at the same time
published and declared the above instrument to subscribe to be his last will
and testament and we, at the testator's request and in his presence, have
signed our names as witnesses hereto, and written opposite our names our
respective places of residence.


						His
				George		 X	Hooks
						Mark

P. B. Bickerstaff
Pleasant Meredeth
P. Norsworthy