Last Will and Testament of Amelia King (widow of Emmanuel or Manuel Guillory,
Jr.) -- 1931 St. Landry Pr. LA    Submitted by Anthony R. Guillory


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State of Louisiana
Parish of St. Landry

Before me Alfred Veagie Pavy a Notary Public for 
the Parish of St. Landry, duly commissioned and qualified 
and in the presence of George Pitre, W. E. Neely, Russell 
Burke, and Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis, competent witnesses, and 
all residents of the Parish of St. Landry, Louisiana, 
personally came and appeared Amelia King, widow of  Emmanuel 
Guillory Sr., who declared unto me, Notary, in the presence 
of the aforesaid and undersigned witnesses, that she wished 
to make her last will and testament and she the said Amelia 
King, testatrix, dictated to me this her last will and testament.  
In the presence of the aforesaid witnesses, and I Notary 
received same from her dictation, and wrote down same as it 
was dictated to me, in the presence of her the said Amelia King, 
testatrix, and the aforesaid witnesses, in words as follows-to-wit:
     "I give and bequethe to my daughter-in law, Corinne 
Guillory, wife of Willie Guillory in full property and ownership 
the following land and improvements to wit a tract of land at 
Mallet, in the parish of St. Landry, containing fifteen arpents, 
more or less, with the residence where I live and all other 
improvements thereon, bounded northwest by Bayou Mallet and 
land of Corinne Guillory northeast by R. D. Guillory,  southeast 
by the public road and southwest by Napoleon Guillory.  This 
property is bequeathed to her at my death in full recompense 
for the care and attention she has bestowed on me during my 
lifetime and particularly during the past seven years, during 
which time she has lived with me.  This property is left to her 
in addition to what her husband will receive from my estate as 
one of my heirs.  I consider that the above property is not 
near worth in money, the value of the care and attention which 
she has bestowed on me and which she has promised to continue 
my son, Simon Guillory, testamentary executor, to this my will 
with seigine and without bond."
     This last will and testament of Amelia King, widow of 
Emmanuel Guillory Sr. was dictated by her to me, Notary, in the 
presence and hearing of the aforesaid and undersigned competent 
witnesses, and the same was reduced to writing by me Notary, as 
dictated by said testatrix.
     I, Notary then read the above will to said testatrix in 
the presence of the aforesaid witnesses, and the said testatrix 
declared to me, Notary, and to the aforesaid witnesses, that she 
was entirely satisfied therewith, and she the said Amelia King, 
widow of Emmanuel Guillory, testatrix then declared to me Notary 
in the presence of the aforesaid witnesses that she could not sign 
her name by reason, and because of her lack of education and also 
because of poor eyesight and, she thereupon in the presence of me, 
Notary, and said witnesses signed hereto by making her ordinary 
mark and the whole was received, dictated, read and signed at one 
time without interruption and without turning aside to another act.
     This done, read and signed at my Notarial office in 
Opelousas, Parish of  St. Landry, State of Louisiana on this the 
twenty-ninth (29th) day of May,  A.D. 1931.

Witnesses:

George Pitre                            Amelia King 
(X) Guillory
W.  E. Neely
Russell Burke
Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis

D. V. Pavy
Notary Public