Wills with Garvin County Ties - Sealy James

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                Wills with Garvin County Ties 



                        Sealy James                                     


# 553 County Probate Records

Pages 454, 455, 456



No. 553

Application for order approving sale

In the county

 court of Garvin County, State of Oklahoma

In the matter of the Estate of Sealy James, a full blood

Choctaw Indian

W.B.M. Mitchell, County Judge

 

County of Garvin

In County Court



To the Honorable W.B.M. Mitchell,Judge of the County Court,

of the County of Garvin, State of Oklahoma           



Comes now Sealy James, who resides in the  County of

Garvin, State of Oklahoma, and represents to the court

that she is a full blood Choctaw Indian enrolled

opposite No. 8246, Card No. 2809, and is the mother 

of John Freeman, a  Choctaw Indian, enrolled opposite

No. 8251, who is now dead, who died in the County of

LeFlore, State of Oklahoma, on the ___day of July, 1905,

without issue and without having been married, and

left surviving him your petitioner, his mother, and

the following half brothers and sisters:



Mary James, enrolled opposite No. 8249

Amanda James, enrolled opposite No. 8247

Bennie James, enrolled opposite No. 8248

Belina James, enrolled opposite No. 8250

Levi James, enrolled opposite No. 8252



That the father of said John Freeman died prior to 

the death of him the said John Freeman; That on 

November ___, 1908, the said Mary James died

in the County of Garvin, State of Oklahoma, without

issue and without having been married, and left 

surviving her your petitioner and the remaining

brothers and sisters hereinbefore names; that

by reason of the death of the said John Freeman

and Mary James, your petitioner inherited an 

undivided interest in the following described 

lands:



The w/2 of the E/2 of the sw/4, and the w/2

of the sw/4 of section 28, and the w/2 of the

ne/4 of section 33, in township 4 north,

range 6 west.



Your petitioner further represents that she 

has contracted to sell unto M.S. Harper the

said land and premises for the sum of four

hundred ($400.00) dollars, which she believes 

to be a reasonable condsideration therefor

and it is to her interest that said conveyance 

be made; that she has duly executed and

acknowledged a deed of conveyance conveying

said property to the said M.S. Harper and

tenders the same herewith and requests that

the court approve and confirm said conveyance.



Sealy James, By Thompson & Patterson, her attorney



553A

In the matter of the estate of Sealy James, a full

blood Choctaw Indian.  Application for order approving

sale.  Thompson and Patterson, Pauls Valley, 

Oklahoma, Attorneys for Guardian.  Filed at Pauls

Valley July 28, 1910.  W.B.M. Mitchell, County Judge