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- Married Lemuel Black on May 25, 1794 in Elbert County, Georgia.
Had children:
Williams Black
Elizabeth W. Black
John Williams Black
Thomas James Black
Matthew Jouett Williams Black
George Walker Black
Mary Black
James Smith Black
Rebecah Black
Barbara Black
Lemuel Black
Listed as Mary A. Black aged 65 in the 1850 Oglethorpe County Census. In residence with distant relatives through marriage, William and Sarah Cunningham.
Will: Mary Ann (Williams) Black, 1868
Oglethorpe County, Georgia
Will Book E, part 1 (1863-1886), p. 38-39
Georgia Archives-drawer 46, box 11
page 38
State of Georgia, Oglethorpe County
I Mary Ann Black being of sound and disposing mind and memory
do make, publish and declare this to be my last Will and Testament hereby revoking all other wills by me before made.
Item 1st I give and bequeath unto Charles Filmore Sanders son of William J. Sanders my bed that I now sleep on and the furniture with it and one small
chest known as my sugar chest, and one small round trunk.
Item 2nd I give and bequeath unto Eliza Eberhart a colored woman (that formerly belonged to me) all my wearing clothes, bandboxes and baskets and one small oven, one stone jar, one small boiler and all my earthenware - this I do for actual service she has rendered to me - besides other considerations.
Item 3rd I give and bequeath unto my son James S. Black all the balance of my estate ready money real or personal or mixed of what ever kind.
Item 4th I appoint my worthy friend Johnson F. Cunningham
executor of this my last Will and Testament.
In testimony where of, I have hereunto set my hand
and seal. July 24th 1868.
her
Mary Ann X Black [seal]
mark
Signed, Sealed and declared }
in presence of and in the }
presence of each other this }
July 24th 1868. }
Gabriel Watson }
J. G. Olive }
J. F. Cunningham }
State of Georgia } Personally appeared in Open Court Oglethorpe County } Gabriel Watson + J Gibson Olive who were witnesses to the within will, after being duly sworn depose + say that they saw Mary Ann Black sign, seal, publish + declare with within to be her last Will + Testament, that at the time thereof she was of sound and disposing mind + memory and that she did it freely without
compulsion + that they witnessed the same in the
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presence of the Testator at her special request + instance
and in the presence of each other. So help us God.
Sworn to + Subscribed in Open }
Court this 5th December 1870 } J. G. Olive
} G. Watson
Georgia } Court of Ordinary
Oglethorpe County } December Term 1870.
The within last Will + Testament of Mary A. Black
deceased of said county having been duly presented
by the witnesses signing the above oath, the same
having been duly proven in common form of law in
Open Court at this Regular Term of the Court upon
the oaths of Gabriel Watson + J. Gibson Olive the
subscribing witnesses to said last Will + Testament
the third one not doing so as he was named as
executor.
Ordered,
That said Will be admitted to
Record. This 5th December 1870 -
Filed in Office 5th } Recorded this 6th day of
Decr 1870. } January 1871 -
F. J. Robinson } F J Robinson /s/
Ordinary O. C. } Ordinary + Ex off Clk.
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