I, J. F. Alford, a resident citizen of Rankin County, Mississippi more than twenty one
years of age, of sound and disposing mind and memory, mindful of the uncertainty of life
and the certainty of death, do hereby make publish and declare this to be my last will
and testament, hereby revoking all former will and codicils by me made:
Item #1. I give my soul to the God who gave it and my body to the earth from which it sprang.
Item #2. It is my will that all my just debts, including the expense of my last illness
and burial, first be paid.
Item #3. I will, devise and bequeath to my wife, Mrs. Mary Alford, until her death, all
property of which I die the owner.
Item #4. At her death it is my will that my property go to the son of my first wife, John
Hasty. But all my personal property such as money in bank, household furniture, cattle etc.
be ners [hers?] without restriction.
Signed, published and declared to be my last will and testament, this the 5th day of
January 1934. A. D.
J. F. Alford
We, the undersigned at the request of J. F. Alford and in his presence and in the presence
of each other, at a time when the said J. F. Alford of sound and disposing mind, memory and
understanding, do hereby sign as attesting witnesses to the foregoing instrument of writing
signed by the said J. F. Alford in our presence and by him declared to be his last will and
testament.