This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cotton, Watts, Ferguson, Stinson, Aycock, Haynes, Ferris, Hunter, Taylor, Thomas, Ivey Classification: Will Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QKB.2ACI/398 Message Board Post: Following are some notes I've written relating to the estate of Abner Cotton. Notes were taken from LDS microfilm of the original Noxubee Court Records, Vol. C, 1851-1855. Page 1, Sept. 29, 1849 Nicholas C. Cotton, administrator of estate of Abner Cotton, decd. Notice to sell land - heirs being notified: John W. Cotton Jane Watts and husband James R. Watts Minerva Ferguson and husband William C. Ferguson James Gardner Cotton Nancy Stinson and husband James Stinson Abner and Bryant Aycock, minors of Mary A. Aycock William A. Ferguson, minor of Martha Ferguson Unknown, minor heirs of Martha and Thomas J. Haynes (both deceased, late of Texas) Notice was published in the "Noxubee Rifle" newspaper of Macon. Propietor and editor was Edward W. Ferris. Page 2, Oct. 13, 1849 Descriptions of Abner Cotton's land to be sold. Lands in sections 7, 18, and 19 of Township 14N, Range 17E. Page 4, Nov. 17, 1849 Joseph L. Hunter, T. A. Taylor, and Richard M. Thomas appointed to "allot, select & set apart out of the stock and provisions or effects of Abner Cotton deceased to Margaret Cotton, widow & relict of said Abner Cotton..." Page 79, March 7, 1850 Jesse A. Ivey appointed guardian of Bryant F. Aycock and Abner C. Aycock by orphan's court of Pickens Co., Alabama. Ivey is requesting the minors' portion of the estate and wants to remove the property to Pickens Co. Bryant and Abner Aycock are minor heirs of Wm. T. Aycock of Pickens and Abner Cotton.