SUCCESSION OF WILLIAM LANFAIR, Carroll Parish, Louisiana Submitted by: Evelyn Mathews Ross Records Of East Carroll Parish, Louisiana Succession Drawer 37 Abstracted December 2, 1997 Dedicated to my mother & her love of genealogy. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** ************************************************ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- PET. FOR ADMINISTRATOR. Filed 10-30-1854. ... The petition of Elmima Lanfair Surviving Widow of William Lanfair dec'd & resident of said Parish of Carroll with respect shows That her late Husband dec'd departed this life in this your Parish of Carroll in December 1853... LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATRIX. Filed 11-24-1854. OATH ADM. Filed 11-24-1854. I, Elmima Lanfair, do solemnly swear... APPLICATION OF TUTORSHIP. Filed 11-24-1854. NATURAL TUTRIX. LETTERS OF CONFIRMATION. Filed 11-24-1854. ... Elmima Lanfair, Survivor, has been confirmed as natural Tutrix of her miner child, William Margaret, heir of her late husband William Lanfair deceased, ... OATH OF NATURAL TUTRIX. ... 11-24-1854. ...The petition of Elmima Lanfair late widow of Wm. Lanfair and now the wife of _________ Keagan with respect shows that on the 24th November 1854 she was appointed administratrix of the Succession of her late Husband the said William Lanfair - That there being no visable property belonging to... the said Succession no Inventory was made... Shows that after her appointment as aforesaid, she instated a said in behalf of said Succession against Dorrell Wright for the recovery of certain property which she alleged belonged to the Succession of her said late husband. That she succeeded in collecting from said Wright - $1,000 in Draft drawn by him. She shows that by her acct. of 1852 she is entitled to the usufruct of $1,000 there being minor heirs... foregoing account be allowed and homologated...