AAFA Wills
WILL OF W. W. ALFORD

I want my dear Wife Mary Blair Alford to be Administratrix of my estate with out bond, I want all my debts paid.

I want my wife to have the homestead and all the house furniture. I want her to have all the money, notes and bonds as long as she lives, then to be divided equally between my six children or their heirs.

I want all my real estate, teams, tools and stock, my interest in the mercantile business saw mill and box factory to be divided equally between my six children or their heirs, Mamie Alford Miller, Willie Blair Alford, Kate Lamar Lilly, Belle Alford Graves, Lutie Lyn Jones, Vivian Alford Ramsey, settled out of court if possible.

Sign. W. W. Alford

Gallman, Mississippi November 23, 1922

Witness. J. C. Traweek

Witness. W. R. Shipp

Filed and recorded the 20 day of August, 1927, J. M. Bass Jr., Clerk

State of Mississippi Copiah County. . .

This day personally appeared before me, the undersigned Notary Public of said County J. C. Traweek and W. R. Shipp. credible and competent witnesses to a certain instrument, of writing filed in my office on the ___ day of August, A.D. 1927 purporting to be the last will and testament of W. W. Alford, deceased, late of Copiah County, in said State; and said witnesses having been by me first duly sworn on oath say;

That the said W. W. Alford on the 23rd day of November A.D. 1922 the day of the date of said instrument at Gallman, Copiah County, Mississippi freely and without any restraint or undue influence known to them, signed, published and declared said instrument to be his last will and testament in the presence of the said subscribing witnesses that the said testator was then of sound and disposing mind and more than twenty-one years of age; that they the said deponents then and there at the special instance and request of and in the presence of the said testator and in the presence of each other, subscribed and attested said instrument as witnesses to the signature and publication thereof; that said testator at the time of said attestation by said deponents, was mentally capable of recognizing and actually conscious of said act of attestation; and that they, the said subscribing witnesses, were, at the time of said attestation, competent witnesses under the laws of the State of Mississippi.

J. C. Traweek W. R. Shipp.

Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 18th day of August, A. D. 1927.

S. C. Caldwell Jr. (SEAL) Notary Public

Filed Aug. 20, 1927. J. M. Bass, Jr. Clerk.

Filed in Record of Wills, Book B, pages 61 and 62.