In a message dated 1/17/2007 8:41:22 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: (Rose Ann "Annie" GORMAN MALEY RATHBONE) appointed her father (Philip GORMAN) as guardian of her three children after her husband (Edward MALEY, Jr.) and their father died at a young age (32) so that each year she could and did charge and submit a bill for their school supplies, medical, clothing and etc She couldn't appoint her father guardian, the court must have done so, if not appointed in the husbands will. All mothers who had any means submitted for school etc since they weren't free. I have most of my knowledge from the estate of an ancestral Uncle in law, there were in the court papers many little tidbits (found online in Tippah Co MS site) and for the mother to get any money to support the children it had to be disbursed from the Guardian. Eliz