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WILL OF HAMLIN C. ALFORD


LAST WILL & TESTAMENT I, Hamlin C. Alford of the County of Montgomery and State of Alabama do hereby declare this to be my last Will & Testament, revoking all others.

1. I desire and instruct my Executrix to pay all my just debts as soon as possible after my death.

2. I give and bequeath unto my wife Francis E. Alford, all the property of which I may die possessed real and personal, moneys choes (?) in action, and rights of action to be used by her, in such manner as she may choose, for and during the term of natural life, and I do hereby authorize her to sell and dispose of all the property herein devised, and to invest the proceeds according to her own judgement--and to enjoy and use the said property or the proceeds thereof, during her life without restriction, and without being accountable for the same at her death.

3. I give and bequeath one half of the property or the proceeds thereof which my wife may hold at the time of her death, and which she obtained under the provisions of this will, to my next of kin, and the other half, in such a manner as she may direct by will, and in case of no such will, to her next of kin.

3. (4). I hereby appoint my said wife Frances E. Alford the Executrix of this my last will and testament, and exempt her from giving and bond or security as such Executrix.

I witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this seventh day of February 1868 in the presence of Abram Martin and P. T. Sayre.

H. C. Alford (seal)

A. Martin

P. T. Sayre

The State of Alabama }

County of Montgomery } Probate Court.

In the matter of the Probate of the last Will and testament of Hamlin C. Alford, deceased

Before me George Ely Judge of the Probate Court of said County of Montgomery personally appeared in open Court P. T. Sayre who having been by me first duly sworn and examined did and does depose and say that he and A. Martin are each subscribing witnesses to the foregoing instrument in writing non-shown to him, and which purports to be the last will and testament of Hamlin C. Alford since deceased signed and executed said instrument on the day the same bears date and declared the same to be his last Will and testament and that deponent and the said A. Martin set their signatures thereto on the day the same bears date as subscribing witnesses to the same in the presence of said testator and at his request and in the presence of each other.

That said testator was at the time of signing the same of sound desposing mind memory and understanding, and in the opinion of deponant capable of making his will at the time the same was made as aforesaid, and deponant further States that the said testator was on the day of the date of said will of the full age of twenty one years and upwards.

Sworn and subscribed to before me this 30th day of August 1871.

P. T. Sayre

George Ely

Judge Probate Court

Montgomery County

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