WILL OF SAMUEL THOMAS 

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Date: 5 Nov 2009
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NOTE: this will is filed in both Mississippi and Hempstead Co.

Will of Samuel S. Thomas, 8 Nov. 1851, Lowndes Co., Mississippi Estate
Docket 675, Loose Wills, Chancery Clerk's Office, Columbus, Mississippi.
Proven and filed 1 December 1851; A copy also on file in Loose Wills,
Hempstead Co., Arkansas, Clerk's Office, Hope, Arkansas. Transcribed from a
photocopy of the original in Mississippi.

     I Samuel S. Thomas of Hempsted County and State of Arkansas, now in
Lowndes County of Miss. Believing it once appointed for all men to Die now
being in Bad health, But in my proper mind and memory, Wish to make this my
Last Will and Testament in the following manner to wit,
     1st  I Commend my Soul to god who gave [it] and Body to the grave
     2nd  I Want paid to Martha H. Loftis out of my Estate the Sum of Two
Thousand one Hundred and fifty four Dollars 79 Cents, or there about more or
Less which Certain amount may Be Asurtained by Exammining the Records of
Hempsted County Arkansas, which money I Collected for her, which fell to her
from her Deceased Husbands Richard Loftis Estate
     3rd  After pay all my Last Debts
     I give and Bequeath to my Kind and affectionate mother Fereby Thomas
all the Ballance of my Estate and property of every Kind, subject to her
Disposal at her Death and Do hereby appoint Robert P. Thomas my Executor to
this my Last Will and Testament in Witness Whereof I hereunto set my hand
and affix my Seal this the 8th day of November 1851.
                                            Samuel S. Thomas
Test
W.W. Vaughn
A.D. Thomas
F.M. Thomas


Leonard J. McCown, Irving, Texas -- 
McCown Family History 
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