When our class met in the Deeds Room in the Walker County Courthouse, I was given a person to look up in the probate records. That person was James Gillespie, who wrote his will on October 18, 1861, presumably before he went off to fight for the Confederate Army in the the American Civil War. The will was probated on December 31, 1867. In it he willed his estate to his wife Susan Gillespie, giving her full authority to sell any tract of land, town land and slave if need be. She is the executor of the will.
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