Will of James Howell
27 Apr 1876
submitted by Nancy Gilstrap Mann
ngmann@aol.com
Sumter County, Georgia In the name of God Amen. I James Howell remembering that is appointed unto man to die & being in feeble health, but in sound mind & disposing memory, do make my last will & testament revoking all others. I desire that after my Spirit returns to God who gave it me through Christ my Savior that my body be consigned to the grave in a christianlike manner. Item 1st As regards the little Estate the lord has blessed me with. I desire & will that my loving wife Elizabeth Howell have all my Estate both real & personal after the payment of my just debts & burial expenses to enjoy the full benefit & possession of the same during her natural like. After her death. Item 2nd My will & desire is that my daughter Emaline A. E. Howell have on Lot of Land no eighty nine (89) in the 27th twenty seventh Dist originally Lee now Sumter county whereon I now live. Item 3rd My will & desire is that my son James Howell have half of Lot no sixty two (62) in the twenty seventh district of Originally Lee now Sumter County it being he west half Item 4th My will & desire is that my son Jon T Howell have one Lot Land no ninety (90) in the twenty seventh district 27th of originally Lee now Sumter County Item 5th My will & desire is that my son Purifoy Howell have one lot of Land no (61) in the 27th District of originally Lee now Sumter County Item 6th My will & desire is that my daughter Nancy Buchanan have two hundred dollars, provided that there shall be property sufficient to make six hundred dollars outside of the above disposed property Item 7th My will & desire is that my daughter Marian two hundred dollars Item 8th My will & desire is that my daughter Laura E. V. Parker have two hundred dollars. Should there nor be sufficiency to pay the above three items to wit two hundred dollars to Nancy Buchanan two hundred to Mary McMath two hundred to Laura E. V. Parker then & in that event the amt of property divided equally between them share & share alike Signed in the presence of us James Howell this the 27th day of April 1876 Isaac Hart Wm Chambless Charles C Sheppard Court of Ordinary of Sumter County October Term 1878 Came into open court at the regular term of the Court Wm Chambless & Charles C. Sheppard & being duly sworn depose & say that they saw James Howell sign & publish the within as his last will & testament while of sound & disposing mind. That they witnessed the same for him at his request & in his presence & of each other & of the other witness Isaac Hart and that the same executed voluntarily by him on the day it purports to have been executed. Wm Chambless Sworn to & subscribed before me Charles C Sheppard in open court Oct Term 1878 Thos H Stewart Ordinary