UPSON COUNTY, GA - Wills - Elbert N. Kimball (Petition to Prove)

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Petition to prove a Will- Elbert N. Kimball
Entered on Minutes 
Court of Ordinary  Oct. Term 1862


Georgia, Upson County
  To the Court of Ordinary of said County
October term 1862
The petition of Elizabeth Kimball respectfully
sheweth that here before, to wit, on the third day
of May, 1861, Elbert N. Kimball being then in life &
resident in said County of Upson signed, sealed ,
declared & published an instrument in writing in the
presence of E. B. Atwater, John W. Atwater & George
W. Davis, who subscribe the same at witnesses as his
last will & testament, that shortly after executing
said instrument, the said Elbert N. went in the Army
of the Confederate states as a soldier, in a Company
commanded by Capt. Thomas Beall, [Co K 5th Regiment]
known as the Upson Guards, and died at WestPoint,
Ga. on or about the 14th day of August 1862, being
on his return home & being discharged and your
petitioner further shows that she is the sister of
said Elbert N. Kimball, residency is said County of
Upson and is of lawful age, and that she is the
executrix nominated & appointed in said Will.

Wherefore she brings said Instrument now into Court
& pronounces the same for probate, and that the same
may be Proved & accepted as the Will of Said Elbert
and that Letters testamentary may issue to her in
the provings.
   Respectively submitted; Elizabeth Kimball