SUCCESSION OF FAITHEY COUCH, Caldwell Parish, LA.  
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Source: Succession Records at Caldwell Parish courthouse, Columbia, Louisiana.


To the Honorable the Judge of the 11th Judicial District holding court in and
for the Parish of Caldwell, State of Louisiana.

John S. Couch, a resident of said Parish & State respectfully represents to
you Honor, Mrs. Mary James Henry Couch is a minor with neither father or
mother, both being dead, that she is on heir to the succession of Faithey
Couch whose succession was opened in said Parish, that said succession of
Faithey Couch will soon be partitioned by a decree of your Honorable Court &
rendered at the last October Session.  That the said minor Mary James Henry
Couch, now about 17 years of age is without a tutor or guardian that it is the
wish  of the said minor that your petitioner should take upon himself
Tutorship, your petitioner being her uncle and she having no other relative in
the parish aforesaid.  Wherefore your petitioner prays that he be appointed
Tutor to the afore said Mary James Henry Couch ___ his complying with the law
& that under Tutor to said minor & for such other & further orders as the care
may require.  

State of Louisiana, Parish of Caldwell | 11th District Court of Parish of
Caldwell.

Let the prayer of the foregoing petition be granted and it is ordered that the
application of Jackson Couch for the Me Tutorship of Mary James Henry Couch be
duly advertised according to Law.  Thus done and signed on this 13th day of
November A.D. 1852.  R. Duckworth, Clerk

NOTICE
Jackson Couch having filed in the clerk's office of the 11th District Court of
Louisiana in and fort he Parish of Caldwell, his application for the Tutorship
of Mary James Henry Couch, a minor, and an Heir to Faithey Couch, dec'd now. 
Therefore all persons objecting to the said appointment are hereby required to
file their opposition in writing in said office within ten days from the date
hereof, or the said Jackson Couch will be duly appointed Tutor as aforesaid
upon his complying with the requisites of the law.  Columbia LA. Nov 13th
1852.  R. Duckworth, Clerk.