Prentiss-Itawamba-Lee County MsArchives Wills.....Sargent, Romulus D. February 16 1915
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Source: Prentiss County Courthouse
Written: February 16 1915

Prentiss County
Booneville, Mississippi

Booneville, Mississippi, Feby. 16, 1915


Owing to the uncertainty of life and the certainty of death and being of sound 
and disposing mind, I Romulus D. Sargent do make and publish this my last will, 
hereby revoking all prior wills.
First, I desire that all my just debts be paid and that my body be decently 
buried. That a tombstone to cost not more than one hundred dollars be placed at 
my last resting place. Second, what ever there remains of my estate be equally 
divided between the heirs of my deceased brothers, James L. Sargent, Temple C. 
Sargent and my deceased sisters, Dolly Ann Sargent, Elizabeth Mayfield.
Third, I here by appoint my friend, John B. Sanders, Booneville, Miss. Sole 
Executor of this my will and he is to be exempt from making bond or reporting 
to any Court, and is to have no compensation for distributing my property.
Should I die in Texas or Oklahoma, I desire to be buried at Weimor, Texas by 
the side of my beloved wife. Should I die in Mississippi, I desire to be buried 
at New Chapel in Itawamba County, by the side of my beloved mother.
In witness where of, I here to affix my signature in the presence of the 
subscribing witnesses: R.L. Bolton and S,V, Crow, who sign as witness in my 
presence and in the presence of each other.

R.D. Sargent

Witness:
R.L. Bolton, Booneville, Miss.
S.V. Crow, Booneville, Miss.

Note: Romulus D. Sargent died March 14, 1919 and is supposedly buried at New 
Chapel, Itawamba Co, MS, by the side of his mother, Louisa Winbush Lester 
Gannaway Sargent, although she has no marker. His father was Temple Sargent, 
who died Aug. 18, 1850 in Franklin Co, AL and is buried in the Sargent 
Cemetery, a private cemetery 4 miles east of Russelville.


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