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Probate of
Will
The State of Alabama Orphaus Court April Term 1847.
Laurence County,
Present the Hon. Richard O. Pickett Judge of said
Court. Whereas Frederick O.Sherrod Wm. Watkins and Richard Jones
the persons named as Executors to an Instrument of Writing purporting to be
the last Will and Testament of Benj. Sherrod decd. have this 5th day of April
1847. it being the 1st Monday in said month in Obediance to a former order
of this Court presented said Instrument for Probate, And it appearing to
the satisfaction of the Court from the Testimony of Samuel W. Shackelford
that all the Adult parties in interest have had personal Notice of the
Application to prove said Will, and John M. Jackson Guardian ad litem
of the Miner heirs and distributees of said Estate has had legal Notice and
thereupon came Jack Shackelford John W Compton two of the Subscribing
Witnesses to said Instrument and Jack Shackelford and Willis H.Gibson
the Subscribing witnesses to the Codicil to said Will who after being duly
sworn to well and truly to Answer all questions propounded to them by the
Court relative to the execution of said Will upon their Oaths do say, that
Benj. Sherrod signed and sealed the Instrument to the Court shown as his
last Will and Testament on the day of the date thereof in their presence
and in the presence of Lucinda McLamore the Other Subscribing witness
thereto who has since departed this life and that they the said Jack
Shackelford and John W.Compton subscribed their names as Witnesses thereto at
the request of said Testator. and in his presence and in the presence of each other
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and the said Lucinda McLamore now deceased. And they further depose and
say that the said Testator was of sound mind and disposing memory and
that he was over the age of twenty one years. And that he was a Citizen of
Alabama Laurence County. And the said Jack Shackelford and Willis H.
Gibson two of the Subscribing Witnesses to the Codicil depose and say that
the said Benj. Sherrod signed and Sealed said Instrument here to the
Court shown as the Codicil of his last Will and Testament and in presence
of E.S.McMahon the Other Subscribing Witness thereto; That they Subscribed
their names as Witnesses thereto at his request and in his presence and in
presence of each other ; They further depose and say that he was of sound
mind and disposing memory; It is therefore Considered by the Court that said
Instrument in writing is fully proved to be the last Will and Testament of
Benj. Sherrod decd. And that it be received and Admitted to Record as such.
April 5th 1847

Will
I Benjamin Sherrod of Laurence County, State of Alabama
do make and publish this my last Will and Testiment in manner and
from following , that is to say
I Will that all my Real Estate personal property and debts owing to me
shall be charged with the payment of my debts, and that all the Real
Estate Slaves Stock and other personal property on my several plantations
shall be kept together by my Executors herein after Appointed and the
said plantations shall be cultivated by my Slaves under the directions
of my Executors or the survivors of them without any division of
the Real Estate or other property hereby charged as aforesaid till all my
debts shall have been paid out of the proceeds of the several plantations.
I Will and direct that after the payment of the expenses incurred by my
Executors in Cultivating the said plantations and disposing of the crops