Estate of James M. Barber
Talladega County )
Alabama ) This day came Martha A. Barber
Probate Book B. ) widow of James M. Barber deceased, and filed
Page 537 ) her petition in Court for an order to have the
homestead of her dec'd husband appraised that the
same may be allowed to said widow and deceased's children, exempt from
sale as provided for which said petitions is as follows viz.
To the Honorable Wm. H. Thornton Judge of Probate Talladega County
Alabama.
The petition of Martha A. Barber, widow of James M. Barber dec'd and
as administrator with Allen Barber adm of said deceased estate, showeth
unto Your honor that her late husband died seized and possessed of Ten
acres of land off of the south end of that portion lying west of the
Antral plank Road, of the E 1/2 of the WP Sec. 10, Townshp 21, Range 4 in
county of Talladega, upon which said 10 acres of land the said Jaems M.
Barber reside at the time of his death, that being all the land or Real
Estate that was owned by the said James M. at the time of his death as
far as petitioner is informed and believes.
Your petitioner further states that is will ____ the whole of the
personal estate of said dec'd, to pay the debts of his estate and that to
provision of said estate will, or can be made for the support of the
petitioner and her two small children by her said husband, and his two
children by a former wife, and that be as such widow and adm, as foresaid
has selected the said ten acres of land as a homestead for herself and
the children of her deceased husband, but in as much as the value of the
same has not been affixed, Your petitioner prays that upon the coming in
of such appraisement, if the same should not exceed the sum of Five
Hundred dollars, that the said Ten acres of land with the tenements and
appertenances therunto belonging may be taken and held an confirmde by
your honor Court as the estate of this petitioner and Wiley C.,
Joshua H., Margaret F., and James M. Barber
children of said deceased, according to the statute in such cases made and
founded.
her
Martha A. Barber
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Wm H. Thornton, Judge
25 Oct. 1856
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Judgment was made in favor of Martha A. Barber and the children of
James M. Barber, and they were allowed to keep the land.
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