Probate Court Minutes, page 492, Book 1889-1897 ================================ · Howell adoption · In the matter of the adoption of Grover Cleveland Lowery, and changing name to Grover Cleveland Howell · Probate Court, Barbour Co., July 25 1896 This day came Turner Howell, and filed in this court his declaration in writing, signed and acknowledged by him, and attested by two witnesses, adopting a boy child Grover Cleveland Lowery and changing the name of the said boy child from Grover Cleveland Lowery to Grover Cleveland Howell, and moved the court that his said declaration of writing be recorded in the minutes of this Court, in persuance of Sections 2365.2366.2367 of the code of Alabama. It is therefore ordered by the Court that the motion in the case be and the same is hereby granted, and that the declaration in writing in this case be recorded on W.H. Pruett Judge of Probate ======================================================== The records in OCR book 28, pages 387-389, indicated that the above mentioned Grover Cleveland Lowery was adopted by Turner Howell in July of 1896. His name was changed to Grover Cleveland Howell. At the time of the adoption, the child was between eight and nine years old, born about 1888. He had been an inmate of the Alabama Methodist Orphanage in Summerfield, Dallas County, Alabama. ========================================================== Richard Price SOS 6-3