Petition of James Trice Mizelle to be the Administrator of Zachariah C. Mizelle's
Estate. January 31, 1883, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

Submitted by: Betty M. Savage and Walter H. Ward.


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Source: Succession papers of Z. C. Miselle (sic, Mizelle), filed in the Lincoln
Parish, Louisiana, Court House, folder # 44.

To the Honorable the Judge of the Third Judicial District Court in and for the Parish
of Lincoln, State of Louisiana.
      The petition of James T. Miselle, a resident of your said Parish and State ,
with respect shows that his brother, Z. C. Miselle, died intestate, unmarried and
without issue, about April 1864, away from home and in the Army of the Confederate
States, leaving some real property situated in what is now Lincoln Parish and leaving
as his heirs his mother, Sarah Miselle, and his brothers and sisters.
      He shows that he, J.W. Miselle, Sarah J. Miselle, wife of Thomas Z. Kent,
Elizabeth Teasly ( nee Miselle) (now deceased and represented by her children, Sarah
Mitchell, Elizabeth Holland, and Wm Z Teasly), and Sarah P. Cox, nee Miselle, (now
deceased and represented by her children, Phebe L. Thomas, Sarah P. Cox and Martha A.
Cox) and his mother, the said Sarah Miselle are the sole heirs and legal
representatives of the deceased, Z.C. Miselle.
      He shows that his said brother, Z. C. Mizelle, deceased, was indebted to your
petitioner at the time of his death, that he was then agent for said deceased for the
preservation and protection of his land, in your said parish, was paying taxes on
said land and he has, since the death of said Z. C. Miselle continued to pay taxes
upon and preserve the land belonging to the succession of said deceased.
      He shows that said succession owes debts and an administration is necessary. He
is an heir of the deceased and creditor of his succession and is entitled to the
administration, and applies therefor.
      He prays that his application to be appointed administrator of said succession
be advertised according to law, that J. W. Williams, Clerk of the Court and Ex
Officio Recorder and Ex Officio Notary Public in and for your said parish be ordered
and required to make a full fair and complete inventory and appraisement of all the
property belonging to the succession of said deceased, situated in said parish and
make return according to law, that after legal delays and formalities your petitioner
be appointed Administrator of the succession of Z. C. Miselle, deceased. He futher
prays for necessary orders and decrees for costs and general relief.
                  Signed: G. L. Gaskins, Atty for Petitioner

State of Louisiana  }
Parish of Lincoln   }   In 3rd Dist. Court, The foregoing petition the prayer thereof
and the law being considered it is hereby ordered and decreed that J. W. Williams,
Clerk of the Court and Ex Officio Recorder and Ex Officio Notary Public, in in and
for the parish aforesaid, be and he is hereby ordered and directed to make a full
fair and complete inventory and appraisement of all the property belonging to the
succession of Z. C. Miselle deceased, situated in the said parish and state and due
return thereof make according to law.
     It is further ordered and decreed that the application of James T. Miselle to be
appointed Administrator of said succession be advertised according to law, and after
legal advertisement for ten clear days, and no opposition being filed, it is ordered
that said James T. Miselle be appointed administrator of said succession upon his
giving bond, with good security, as required by law, in a sum one fourth over and
above the amount of the inventory of the property of said succession, (??) under this
order.
     Done and signed in chambers on this the 31 day of January 1883.
            Signed: E. M. Graham, Judge 3rd District Court of La.


Transcribers note: (??) means unidentified word. James Trice Mizelle, born ca1819,
died Feb. 1, 1895, and Zachariah C. Mizelle, born ca1829, died April 1864, were sons
of Joel Mizelle and Sarah Trice.