Seems this practice of questioning women when land was being sold goes a long way back. One of the interesting things I have come across has been in wills left by the husband, where he left his wife her clothes. How thoughtful. I did find something which I thought was unusual when I finally found info about my husband's grandmother. She died in 1894 in Cook Co, TX when Ed's Mother was 9 years old. She left a will and her husband had to go to court to be appointed guardian of the children. The land was in her name - probably since it had come from her Father. Any way, I certainly didn't expect to find a will for her. We had been trying to prove who his grandmother was - since her husband re-married and the only name the children knew was the step-grandmother. Of course none of us ever thought to ask his Mother who her Mother was. Would have saved a lot of time, but that's how it goes. Betty Gregory