Last Will and Testament of Mrs. Virginia Howell

Contributed by Lori Thornton <lorit@lcs.net>
June 2002

Monroe County, Mississippi
Will Book 1, pp. 113-114.

#9930
ESTATE OF
     MRS. VIRGINIA HOWELL, DECEASED
                LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF MRS. VIRGINIA HOWELL

     I, Mrs. Virginia Howell, of Monroe County, State of Mississippi,
being of sound and disposing mind and memory, hereby declare this to
be my last will and testament.

     ITEM I.  I direct that all my just and honest debts be paid including
the expenses of my last sickness and burial and any other just and
honest debts that I may owe at the time of my death, both secured and
unsecured.

     ITEM II.  After all my debts are paid, I give, devise and bequeath
all my real and personal property to my beloved children as follows:
To Dewey Howell, Lonie Howell, John Howell, Ruble Howell and Vera
May Howell.  This gift is made with the condition that any of my debts
mentioned in Item I above are to be considered a charge upon the 
property that I own at the time of my death.

     ITEM III.  I hereby nominate, constitute and appoint my beloved
son, Dee Fowlkes, the executor of this my last will and testament.

     Signed on this 9th day of December, 1921, in the presence of the
witnesses whoses named [sic] are subscribed below, and who signed
same in each other's presence and in my presence.
                                                                            her
                                                       Mrs. Virginia Howell  X
                                                                            mark
Witness to mark:
  D. H. Streetman

Subscribing witnesses:
  Mrs. R. J. Flinn
  Annabel Flinn

Filed in my office 21 day of Aug. 1943.

No. 9930
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI}                                   CHANCERY COURT
MONROE COUNTY       }                                   In Vacation, 1943.
     ESTATE OF MRS. VIRGINIA HOWELL, Deceased;
       DEWEY HOWLL [SIC], ADMINISTRATOR, C. T. A.

                                         PROOF OF WILL

     Before me, a Notary Public of Monroe County, Mississippi, on this
day personally appeared Mrs. R. J. Flinn and Annabel Flinn, credible and
competent subscribing witnesses to a certain instrument of writing,
purporting to be the last will and testament of Mrs. Virginia Howell,
deceased, late of Monroe County, who, having been first duly sworn,
deposed and said that the said Mrs. Virginia Howell signed, published
and declared said instrument as her last will and testament on the
9th day of December, 1921, the day of the date of said instrument, in
the presence of the deponents, and that the said testatrix was then
of sound and disposing mind and memory, and more than 21 years of
age, and these deponents subscribed and attested said instrument as
witnesses to the signature and publication thereof, at the special
instance and in the presence of the said testatrix, and in the presence
of each other, on the day and year of the date thereof.

                                                       Mrs. R. J. Flinn
                                                       Annabel Flinn

     Subscribed and sworn to before me on this 4th day of August, 1943.
                                                       D. H. Streetman
(SEAL)                                                 Notary Public

     Filed in my office 21 day of Aug. 1943.
  
                                                       J. L. Bourland, Clerk

Transcriber's note:  Mrs. Virginia Howell was born Lucinda Virginia 
Phillips.  She was the daughter of William D. Phillips and Mary Elizabeth
Fowlkes.  She first married Josiah S. Fowlkes.  They had 5 children.  She
then married John Howell who had 5 children from a previous marriage.  They
had an additional 5 children.
           



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