JOHN ASWELL INFORMATION Woodville Courthouse Records 2/4/04 Loose Probate Records (not word for word) …Guardian, Ad Litem At May Term of the Chancery Court of said county, A.D., 1872 …To the answer of Franklin Aswell, Elizabeth Aswell, Walter Aswell and John Aswell, minor heirs, devisces (?) and legatees of John Aswell deceased by William C. Miller their Guardian, ad litem, to the Bill of David Day…. FILED: May 15, 1872 (Note: this suit concerned money owed to David Day) …..Your petitioner David Day respectfully shows to your honor that sometime during the year 1867, John Aswell a resident of said county departed this life leaving little or no personal estate but leaving a small estate consisting of two hundred and sixty two acres of land…. ….that he left a widow Rachael Erabel (??) Small and several minor children. That more than 60 days have expired since the decease of the said John Aswell…. ….That the said John Aswell in his lifetime on the 14th day of April, 1866 executed and delivered to your petitioner a mortgage for said two hundred and sixty two acres of land….. NO DATE GIVEN