Will of Lucy Duly, Attala County, MS
Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by
Betty Jean Weems Neathery <bwneath@iamerica.net>
Attala County Deeds, Book M, Page 185, 186

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Lucy Duly     }
To  :  Gift   }     Attala County Mississippi April 6, 1873
Emily Hodges Et al}

     I, Lucy Duly being in Sound mind and Memory do make this My last
Will and Testament To wit  I give and bequeath to My Daughter Mrs. 
Emily Hodges Seven head of cattle to wit  three cows Two with young
Calf and three yearlings, and I give and bequeath to my Daughter Mrs.
Eliza Young one cow & calf one thirty five dollar note on Shepard Roane
due for Land rent the first day of January 1874, One double woven
Counterpane, and one new quilt And, I give and bequeath to my daughter
Mrs. Virginia Reynolds one cow and Bed Sted & Feather & Straw Bed three
Sheets two pillows & four Slips five quilts And I further give and 
bequeath Two Daughters Emily Hodge and Virginia Reynolds all of my 
wearing apparel and other house hold furniture, not named in this and
I give and bequeath to my Grand Son Edward Jackson Weems one black Mule
and I further request that Should I not be among the living on the
first day of January 1874 that My Land to wit W « of SE ¬ Section Seven
in Township fourteen Range 9 East in Attala County Shall be put up and 
sold to the highest bidder and the money divided equally between my
five children.

     Witness My hand & Seal this April 6th 1874

Test   -   M. L. Williams (Seal)               her
           T. P. Hodge (Seal)              Lucy (L)  Duley   (Seal)
                                               Mark

State of Mississippi  }     This day personally appeared before Me
   Attala County      }     W. T. Davis Clerk of the Chancery Court in
and for said County, the above named T. P. Hodge one of the Subscribing
Witnesses to the foregoing deed who being first duly Sworn deposeth and
saith that he Saw the above named Lucy Duley whose name is Subscribed
thereto, Sign, Seal and deliver the Same to the above named parties and
that he Saw the other Subscribing witness M. L. Williams Sign the Same
in the presence of the Said Lucy Duley and in the presence of each
other on the day and year therein named.
     In Testimony Whereof witness My hand and Seal of Said
     Court this 14th day of February A.D. 1874
                                  W. T. Davis /s/  Clerk
                               Pr T. O. Conner D.C.

filed for Record March 2nd 11 « A.M. AD 1874
Recorded March 2nd AD 1874
                                  W. T. Davis /s/ Clerk


Submitter's Notes: Lucy Duly/Duley was the widow of Britton Weems and
Mr. Duly.  Her five living children were: Emily Weems who married
Francis P. Hodges, Eliza Weems who married Mr. Young, James L. Weems,
Edward Turner Weems, and Virginia Duly who married Green L. Reynolds.
This researcher believes that there was an older son who was the father
of grandson Edward Jackson Weems.  Neither James L. Weems nor Edward
Turner Weems had a son named Edward Jackson Weems, although James L.
Weems did have a son named James Jackson Weems.  Records prove, however
that Edward and James are two different people.