Jones-Bibb County GaArchives News.....Petition for probate - will of William Paul March 10, 1860 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Paula Griffin glmmom@gmail.com April 8, 2009, 10:22 pm Http://telegraph.galileo.usg.edu/telegraph/search March 10, 1860 Weekly Georgia Telegraph (Macon) Mar. 10, 1860 found online at: http://telegraph.galileo.usg.edu/telegraph/search IN VACATION - Georgia, Jones County - The petition of Mary Paul sheweth to the Court of Ordinary of Jones County, Georgia, that on the 4th day of January, 1860, William Paul, of said county, departed this life, possessed of a large, valuable real and personal estate. Prior to this time, he made his last will appointing therein your petitioner Executrix and Isaac Scott, Executor, which said will accompanies this petition, which your petitioner alleges is legally executed, and is the last will of said William Paul, and prays probate of the same in solemn form. The next of kin of the testator, your petitioner alleges, besides the Executor and Executrix, to be Moses, Marshall, and Robert Paul, brothers of said Testator; and Henrietta Booth, sister of said Testator; Robert Paul and John W. Paul of Twiggs county, Ga.; John Allen and Franklin Wilder, of Bibb county, Ga.; Hugh McKary of Jones county, Ga.; Burton Paul of Ala.; Charles Paul of Texas; John S. Stewart of Jasper county, Ga.; and the minor children of said Testator, Martha Ann E., William E., Jabez W., and Susan V. Paul. And this petitioner prays that the usual citation issue to them requiring their attendance upon the probate of said Will, at the March Term 1860, of the Court of Ordinary of said county of Jones, and further prays that the above pettion, and the usual citation and order be published in the Georgia Telegraph of Macon, until said March Term of said Court of Ordinary. Mary Paul, Petitioner January 25, 1860 by her Att'y, R. W. Bonner Upon hearing the foregoing petition, it is ordered that the usual citation be published for the space of thrity days in the Georgia Telegraph, at Macon, calling upon and requiring the parties named in the above petition, and all parties in interest, to be and appear at my office on the first Monday in March next to show cause, if any they have, why the Will of William Paul, deceased, should not be proven in solemn form and admitted to record. Jan. 31 Charles McCarthy, Ordinary File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/jones/newspapers/petition2651gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.8 Kb