This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WOODFIN WASHINGTON -- black & mulatto Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HKB.2ACI/1623 Message Board Post: The following information has been transcribed from "Marshall County Probate and Wills," which was compiled/written by Betty Couch Wiltshire. I have VERY FEW pages of this book and am happy to contribute transcriptions to this message board when I have the time. I'm in the process of retyping some of pages I have. Of course, because of copyright restrictions, I am prohibited (as are virtually all researchers) from transcribing the entire book ... not that I would have the time anyway because there are about 250 pages in this book. There's been so much frustration in connection with researchers' access to Marshall County probate and wills, I thought this was a good way to overcome at least one obstacle in finding what we need to know about our ancestors! I hope this helps you as much as it's helped me in my research ... Deborah *** Transcribed from Records – Probate Court Volume 11 1855-1856 (p. 181) of “Marshall County, Mississippi Probate and Wills” by Betty Couch Wiltshire: 1. Appraisers inventory of the estate of Alexander MARR, deceased, including negroes: boy Armstead, old woman Gracy, woman Amy, man George, man Henry, boy Anderson and girl Judy. May 1853. 2. Appraisers inventory of the estate of John Coffee PEEL, deceased, including negroes: boy Wash, boy Jack, girl Comelia and her child Rodd. June 1855. 4. Appraisers inventory of the estate of Roger BARTON, deceased, including negroes: George 23 years, Lewis 23 years, Albert 30 years, Adaline 22 years, Polly and her two children Russell and Wyatt, Berry 9 years, and Ann 7 years. June 1855. 6. John H. DILL, minor more than fourteen years of age and son of B.H. DILL, deceased, chose his brother-in-law, William A. BROADWAY, as his guardian. March 1855. 8. Appraisers inventory of the estate of James B. NUNNALLY, deceased, including negroes: Frank 48 years, Sallie Ann 38 and child, boy Dolphus 5 years, Lewis 13, Allen 28, Isbel 24 and two children, Edmund 32, Sallie 28 and four children, Jack 26, Martha 32, Samuel 50, Eve 62, Mary 23 and two children, Alex 28, Harry 39, Nancy 28 and four children, Anderson 12, Amy 50, Mack 15, Nat 9, Jordan 48, William 28, Dick 17, Violet 16. June 1855. 10. Gabriel B. STONE, deceased, left the following children: Mary E. STONE (now Mary E. CLAYTON), Thomas STONE, Sarah STONE, Susan STONE and Emily Sinas STONE, all minors under the age of twenty-one except Mary E. CLAYTON, wife of James W. CLAYTON. February 1855. 18. Appraisers inventory of the estate of Alexander F. COWAN, deceased 1855. 20. Report of sale of property of the estate of Alexander F. COWAN, deceased. June 1855. 22. Appraisers inventory of the estate of Ephraim JOHNSON, deceased. June 1855. 24. Appraisers inventory of the estate of David W. HAMILTON, deceased, including negroes: Abram about 54, Tamar 47, Harriett 12, child Hannah, Jenny 45, Henry 28, Willis 25, Fanny B. MORRIS 23, Frank 20, Charly 11, Rintha 9. June 1855. 27. Appraisers inventory of the estate of John WOODS, deceased, including negro boy Alfred and woman Ann. July 1855. *** Note: The information above has been transcribed exactly from what appears in the book -- there has been no editing of the author's work.