Probate Record for J. A. Harrell
Dated:  May 1925
Submitted by:  Marshaleigh Bahan mobahan@sbcglobal.net

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No. 2909
PROOF OF WILL

THE STATE OF TEXAS				ESTATE OF
County of          Bell						J. A. Harrell, Deceased

Proof of Last Will and Testament of  ___________J.A. Harrell, Deceased
	This day personally appeared in open Court 		E. G. Armstrong
Who, being duly sworn as a witness in the above entitled matter, and examined on behalf of the
applicant to prove said Will says”  I was well acquainted with J. A. Harrell, deceased, during his lifetime; I knew the above decedent for about 40 years before his death; the signature of the said deceased to the instrument now shown to me and offered for probate as his last Will and Testament, filed in this Court on the 25th day of March A.D. 1925 and bearing date on the 26th of January A.D. 1922, was made by the deceased on said last named date at Holland in presence of myself and W. L. Armstrong, now deceased, the other subscribing witness; all of said witnesses being over the age of fourteen years.  
At the time of the making of said Will the testator was of sound and disposing mind and memory, 
and he declared the said Will so made by him to be his last Will and Testament, and I thereupon 
signed my name as a witness, together with W. L. Armstrong, now deceased at the request of the said testator, in his presence and in the presence of each other.  The said deceased at the time of the
execution of said instrument was about seventy two years of age; the said J. A. Harrell departed this life on the 30th day of January A.D. 1925, about three years after making said Will, in the County of Bell in the State of Texas where and at which time his residence and principal estate was situated 
and without having revoked said will so far as know to affiant that said J. A. Harrell had no            of the signing said Will.

								E. G. Armstrong
SWORN to and subscribed before me this 4th day of May A.D. 1925 in open Court
								Tom DuBose____Clerk
								Bell___________County
								By____________Deputy