Contributed: January 1, 2007
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Last Will and Testament of W. D. S. Bowen
Proof of Will
State
of Mississippi} Chancery
Court.
Itawamba
County } In
Vacation before the Clerk
A D 1905. In the matter of a certain instrumentof writing Purporting
to be the last Will and Testament of W. D. S. Bowen, deceased
of Itawamba County personally appeared before me J. F. Benson
Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for said County D. R. McDougal
subscribing witness to a certain instrument of writing purporting
to be the last Will and Testament of W. D. S. Bowen deceased late
of Itawamba county who having first been duly sworn deposed and
said that the said W. D. S. Bowen, signed, published and declared
said instrument as his Last Will and Testament on the 18th day
of November,1895, the day of the date of said instrument in the
presence of the deponents and the said Testator was then of sound
disposing mind and memory and more than twenty-one years of age
and that these deponents subscribed and attested said instrument
as witness to the same signature and publication thereof at the
special instrument and in the presence of the said Testator, and
in the presence of each other, on the day and year of the year
there of.
Sworn to and subscribed
in open court on this 21st } D.
R. McDougal
day of March, 1905
J.
F. Benson Clerk
State of Mississippi}
Itawamba County }
J. D. R. McDougal
Clerk of the Chancery Court and far said county, hereby certify
that the foregoing Last Will and Testament of W.D.S.Bowen was
filed in my office for record,on the 21 day of March. A D. 1905.
And the same is now duly recorded in Estate record Book 8 on page
50-51 of the record of Will in my office.
Given under my hand and seal of said court {This March the 22nd
of 1905
D. R. McDougal----Chancery Court