Monday Is for Mothers: Timney P. Watts (1805 - 1863) - Probate Records, Part 15, Final Settlement

I don't know about you, but I'm certainly happy to come to the end of this examination of the probate records for my 3X great grandmother Timeny P. Watts Warren Phillips. 

Timney died on September 5, 1863, by which time  Lee's invasion of the North had been turned back at Gettysburg (July 1-3), Vicksburg had fallen (July 4), the Mississippi River was in Federal control and the South was on the defensive.  Perhaps events during the months leading up to the Confederacy's final defeat in 1865 are part of the reason why it took 3-1/2 years for the final distribution  which took place in 1867.

Estate of
Timney P. Phillips

J.D. Phillips
     Admr

Final Settlement

Recorded Book 11 Page 353
     C.A. Stanton
          Judge of Probate

Filed in Office   Sinclair[?]
Feb 18th 1867

Set for 2nd Monday
April 1867--

C A Stanton
     Judge
R F Ligon

J D Phillips Admr of Timney
P. Phillips dec'd. in account
current for final Settlement

Admr charges himself as
follows----                       Dr[?]

To Amt of Sale of personal property
on the 15th day of December 1863
and which was in Confederate
Money-------------------     $12175.71

To amt of sale of Real estate
in the                                     $120.00
                                            12295.71

Admr ask to be Credited as following
                                                   Cr
By amt paid  R A Johnston {?]nd  1   394.68
 "     "       "    W D Hall                  2     47.60 
 "     "       "     T H Phillips             3     25.00
 "     "       "    W C Martin              4       6.75
 "     "       "    Henderson & Baith  5       5.00
 "     "       "    J W Webb & Co       6      23.20
 "     "       "    Taxes 1863               7      25.25
 "     "       "    R A Johnston           8     185.60
 "     "       "    R A Johnston           9       80.00                
 "     "       "    R A Johnston          10    200.00
 "     "       "    W H Hodnett          11    183.00
 "     "       "    Court Costs            12      54.00
 "     "       "    Attorneys fees        13      30.00

By amt of Confederate Money on hand 4015.63

[Description : Estate Papers, Phillips, Nancy (Minor) to Piques, Sarah. Ancestry.com. Alabama, Wills and Probate Records, 1753-1999 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: Alabama County, District and Probate Courts.]

                             Amt brt forward
By amt paid A Lockwood Guard
=ian for Elizabeth A Lockwood as per recpt $1500.

By amt paid James O A Adams as
     per receipt on file            --------------     $1950

By amt paid Isabella Varner 
     as per receipt on file       --------------     $1950

By amt paid L B Phillips
     as per receipt on file       --------------     $1500


The State of Alabama          }
   Macon County                  } Personally appeared before C.A. Stanton
Judge of he probate Court J D Phillips Admr of Timney Phillips dec'd who being
duly sworn says that the foregoing account for final Settlement is just
true and Correct and that the heirs at law are, Thos H Phillips and 
your petitioner who reside in Macon Co Ala, W.R Phillips and L.B. Phillips who
reside in Geo, Josiah Phillips in Texas, Mary E Lane wife of 
Alexander Land in Barbour Co Ala, Martha Adams wife of  James O.
Adams in Pike Co Ala all of whom are of full age Elizabeth
Lockwood who resides               County Ala, also the children
of Thadeus Phillips dec'd, to wit, Elizabeth, Eugenie, Columbiana
and John H Philips who are minors and live in Georgia--
Sworn to & subscribed before me   }
22 January 1867  ------                      }       J.D. Phillips
   C A Stanton Judge of Probate


If I'm reading this correctly everyone received Confederate money which was worthless.

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Monday Is for Mothers: Timney P. Watts (1805 - 1863) - Probate Records, Part 14, The Second Commission

We've already looked at the November 1863 documents arising from the first Commission appointed by the Probate Court to determine whether some of the estate's property needed to be sold. Although it seemed clear that it did apparently nothing was settled because in 1866 another Commission was created. This time the Commissioners were R.T. Davis and John L. Carmichael and the witnesses to be examined were former Commissioner Wesley F. Hodnett and Henry Stanton who lived next to the property in question.

The interrogatories look pretty much the same (although the order is different and only eight acres are involved this time) which isn't surprising because they were written by one of the original lawyers, R.F. Ligon.

J.D. Phillips                        }         Probate Court
  Administrator of               }         Macon County
     Timney P. Phillips Est.  }
               v.                          }     Interrogatories to
 Heirs at Law.                     }     be propounded to
Wesley F. Hodnett and Henry Stanton
material witnesses for the Plaintiff in this
cause.

1st Intr.   Do you know the parties?

2nd Intr.  Do you know the following described
               land situated in Macon County to wit:
               Eight (8) acres off the East end of the South
               half (1/2) of section eighteen (18) Township
               fifteen (15) Range Twenty four (24) adjoining
               Dr. Hodnett and Henry Stanton?

3rd Intr. Do you know of the indebtedness of said
              Estate?

4th Intr. State if it is necessary to sell lands of
              said Estate to pay the debts.

                                                        R.F. Ligon
                                                        Atty. for Administrator

In my transcription of the pages below I've decided to only give the answers of the witnesses because I've hit the wall on this matter (and the handwriting is particularly hard to read).

Deposition of WH Stanton:

1st Int.    Do you know the parties. Ans. I do

2nd Int Do you know the following described land [...] Ans. 2nd I do

3rd Int  Do you know of the indebtedness of 

said Estate

     Ans. 3rd I do not 

4th Intr. State if it is necessary to sell lands
of said Estate to pay the debts
                                  Ans 4th Not knowing if any
debts I can't say.
                                     WH Stanton
25th day of Oct 1866 at WH Stanton store in the County of  Macon

[Estate Papers, Phillips, Nancy (Minor) to Piques, Sarah. Ancestry.com. Alabama, Wills and Probate Records, 1753-1999 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: Alabama County, District and Probate Courts.]

Deposition of W F Hodnett:

1st Int.    Do you know the parties.

Ans. I do

2nd Int Do you know the following

described land [...]?

Ans. I know the land referred to

3rd Int  Do you know of the indebtedness of 

said Estate [...]?

     Ans. I know of some indebtedness

          of said Estate which cannot be

          paid without selling the lands 

          above described.

4th State if it is necessary to sell lands

of said Estate to pay the debts?
 Ans. I consider it necessary as stated 
     in the last answer.
                                     WF Hodnett
25th day of Oct 1866 at WH Stanton store in the County of  Macon

The sale of these eight acres appears to have been the final obstacle to settling my great great great grandmother Timney P. Watts Warren Phillips' estate. Next week we'll see who got what.

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Monday Is for Mothers: Timney P. Watts (1805 - 1863) - Probate Records, Part 10, The Commission and the Depositions

As we saw in the previous post about probate records for my third great grandmother Timney P. Watts Warren Phillips, her heirs petitioned the Court to allow her land to be sold because "Said lands cannot be equitably fractioned or divided between Said Joint Owners without a Sale [.]" and that the Court appointed W.F. Hodnett as Commissioner empowered to take depositions of witnesses. Here's the official Commission signed by Judge C.A. Stanton which was misfiled in John P. Phillips' probate records.

[Description : Estate Papers, Petteway, Ignatius W to Phillips, Nancy. Ancestry.com. Alabama, Wills and Probate Records, 1753-1999 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.

Original data: Alabama County, District and Probate Courts.]

Below is a printed form* describing the process.

[Description : Estate Papers, Phillips, Nancy (Minor) to Piques, Sarah.

Ancestry.com. Alabama, Wills and Probate Records, 1753-1999 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: Alabama County, District and Probate Courts.]

[Description : Probate Records, Vol 10, 1863-1866; Probate Records, Vol 11, 1866-1868. Ancestry.com. Alabama, Wills and Probate Records, 1753-1999 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.

Original data: Alabama County, District and Probate Courts.]

Thomas H Phillips       } Petition in Macon Probate Court
Jeremiah D Phillips     } to Sell Real Estate for a division
          vs                       } Interrogatories to be propounded
William R Phillips       } to William H Stanton & Alanson
                           Etal   } Lockwood Material Witness for the
Petitioners
Interrogatory 1, Are you acquainted with Certain lands, Situate
in Said County of Macon, and Known as the South half of the
north west Quarter, and Eighty Acres on the west half of the
South half of Section Eighteen (18) Township Fifteen (15) of Range
Twenty Four (24) being the dower Interest of Mrs Timney Phillips

Interrogatory 2, Are you acquainted with the heirs of John
Phillips? if Yea, name them, which are Minors, can or not
cannot Said land be equatably divided between said heirs without
a Sales? if not, state why not?                       Clopton & Ligon
                                                                      Attys for Petitioners

Depositions of Alanson Lockwood and William H Stanton
witnesses Sworn and examined under and by Virtue of a Comm-
-mission issued out of the Probate Court of the State of Alabama
for Macon County, in a Certain Cause therein depending between
Thomas H Phillips & Jeremiah D Phillips Plaintiffs and
William  R Phillips Etal Defendants,
   The witnesses being duly sworn to tell the truth, the whole
 truth and nothing but the truth, do depose[?] and Say as follows

To the first Interrogatory, they say they are acquainted with the
lands described in Said Interrogatory.

To the Second Interrogatory, they Say they are, their names are 
as follows W.R. Phillips, Josiah Phillips, Thomas H. Phillips,
Littleberry B Phillips; Jeremiah D Phillips, Lucinda I Varner

[Description : Probate Records, Vol 10, 1863-1866; Probate Records, Vol 11, 1866-1868. Ancestry.com. Alabama, Wills and Probate Records, 1753-1999 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.

Original data: Alabama County, District and Probate Courts.]

Martha Adams, Mary Lane, Elizabeth Ann Lockwood, Elizabeth
Phillips, Eugenia Phillips, Columbiana Phillips & John T Phillips
of who the last named five (5) are minors, they further answer,
that Said lands cannot be equitably divided without a sale for
the following reasons (Viz, 1st there is not enough of it, 2nd there is
no timber on it, 3rd there are two public Roads running through
it, with a lane fence to be Kept up
                                                                     A. Lockwood
                                                                    W.H. Stanton
We the Commissioner in the Said Commission named, do hereby
Certify, that the evidence of the witnesses A Lockwood & W H
Stanton, was taken down under Oath & Subscribed by them in
in our presence on the 4th day of November 1863 at Cotton Valley in
the County of Macon State of Alabama, and that we have
personal Knowledge of Said witnesses
                          Witness our hand and Seal
                                            W F Hodnett {L.S}

The living children of John P. Phillips (1792-1852) by both his wives** are named as Defendants in this "Certain Cause." And the first two men, William R. (W.R.) and Josiah***, weren't previously identified as his sons. Because William's name leads the list I'm assuming he's the eldest. It's equally unclear to me who Martha Adams and Mary Lane are as they aren't accounted for in our family tree.

The named minor heirs include Elizabeth Ann Lockwood (1851-1917) the only child of Timney's oldest daughter Elizabeth Ann Phillips and her husband Alanson Lockwood. However the connection of Elizabeth, Eugenia, Columbiana and John T. Phillips to this family are unknown to me at the moment.

So thanks to these two pages of probate records I have new people to research.



*This form is part of the records for the 1866 petition but it's unlikely that the procedure changed in the meantime.
**His first wife was Ann Nancy Pennington (1798-bef.1827).
***Our tree did have a Josiah Phillips (b.1822) who married my first cousin 4 times removed Martha Ann Chappell but we hadn't connected him to John P. Phillips and Nancy Ann.

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Monday Is for Mothers: Timney P. Watts (1805 - 1863) - Probate Records, Part 9, A Petition, Not a Lawsuit (Yet)

I'm still sorting through various unindexed records for my fifth great grandmother Timney P. Watts Warren Phillips but below is a petition filed with the Probate Court on behalf of the heirs of her Phillips property in October of 1863.*

[Description : Probate Records, Vol 10, 1863-1866; Probate Records, Vol 11, 1866-1868. Ancestry.com. Alabama, Wills and Probate Records, 1753-1999 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.

Original data: Alabama County, District and Probate Courts.]

Timney Phillips
The State of Alabama     }  To the Hon C A Stanton Judge
     Macon County           }  of Probate Court.
The petition of Thomas H Phillips, and Jeremiah D Phill-
ips, respectfully shows, that your petitioners, and William
R Phillips, and Littleberry B Phillips who reside in the
State of Georgia, Mary E Lane wife of Alexander Lane, Martha 
Adams wife of James O A Adams who reside in said County
of Macon, and all of whom are of full age, Elizabeth Lockwood
who resides in Said County of Macon, Elizabeth Phillips, Eugene
Phillips, Columbiana Phillips & John Henry Phillips, who
are minors and children of Thaddeus Phillips, and represent
their Fathers Interest, and who resides in Georgia and
Joint Owners of Certain lands Situate in Said County of Macon
and known as the South half of the North West quarter of Section
Eighteen (18) Township Fifteen (15) Range twenty four (24) and
Eighty acres of the west half of the South half of the Said
Section Eighteen (18) being the Dower Interest of Timney
Phillips, and that Said lands cannot be equitably fractioned
or divided between Said Joint Owners without a Sale
                  Your petitioner therefore prays that proper notices
may be given, and that your Honor would grant an order to sell  Said
Lands
                             Clopton & Ligon atts for Petitioners

The above petition isn't dated but it is immediately followed by this entry which is.

[Description : Probate Records, Vol 10, 1863-1866; Probate Records, Vol 11, 1866-1868. Ancestry.com. Alabama, Wills and Probate Records, 1753-1999 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.

Original data: Alabama County, District and Probate Courts.]

              The State of Alabama
To W F Hodnett, Know you that we, having full faith in your
Prudence and Competency have appointed you Commissioner, and by these
presents do authorize you at Such time and place as you may appoint,
to call before you and examine H Lockwood and William H Stanton
as witnesses in behalf of Plaintiff in a case pending in our Probate
Court of Macon County wherein J D & T H Phillips are Plaintiffs,
and William R Phillips Et al are Defendants, on oath to be by
you administered, upon Interrogatories annexed to this Commis-
sion; to Take and Certify the deposition of the witnesses, and return
the Same to our Said Court, to be held on the 2nd Monday in 
November next, under your hand and seal, witness C A Stanton
Judge of the Said Court at office, this 20th day of October AD one
thousand Eight hundred and 63.
                                                          C A Stanton Judge of Probate
Issued the 20th day of Oct 1863


Paging through the Probate Court records, I saw that naming a Commission to gather depositions from witnesses was a common practice. Next time we'll look at the questions to be asked of the witnesses and the Interrogatories themselves as filed in the Probate Court by W. F. Hodnett.**

And there's still the matter of the suit filed in 1866 which we'll get to in time.

*Note that no mention is made of her oldest son, my great great grandfather J.T.S. Warren, who had already received his inheritance from his father's estate and had moved to Texas in 1852.
**He's been described as a near neighbor of Timney's and we know from bill presented to the court for payment, that he was a doctor who treated her entire household for several years before her death.


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Monday Is for Mothers: Timney P. Watts (1805 - 1863) - Probate Records, Part 3, Doctor Bills

In the probate file for my third great grandmother Timney P. (Watts) Phillips there are bills from two different physicians, Dr. Wesley Forbush Hodnett (1812-1900) whose services date to at least August 18, 1858, and continue through to Timney's death and Dr. William D. Hall whose earliest (unpaid) item was an small amount brought forward from 1862 and who attended Timney from May through September of 1863.

Timney's account with Dr. Hodnett details the medical treatment received by the inhabitants of a cotton plantation over a six year span.

Looking at the transcription, we can see that Dr. Hodnett treated both free and enslaved patients.

A.D. 1858. Mrs. Timney P. Phillips Dr. To W.F Hodnett          1.
August 18th   To Prescription & Medicine for Self*   1.50
Sept 30th   To Visit Prescrip & Meds for Frank M.**   2.
                                                                        $3.50
A.D.1859.
Feb'y. 11th    To Visit Prescrip & Meds for Self    2.
"       12th     "        "       "        "      "       "    2.
"       13th     "        "       "        " Lancing Abscess   2.50
"       14th     "  Call Visit Prescrip & Meds for Self   2. 
"       19th     "  Prescrip. & Powders Comp for N.W.***   1.50
March 21st   " Bleeding, Meds. Cath. Pills & Prescrips N.W.H****    2.
"           "      "       Alt. Ton. & Lax. Bitter, for n.w. Hariet    1.
June 17th     " Prescrip.Powders & Drops for N.W.     2.
July 1st        " Visit Prescrip & Meds for n.w. Luckey*****    2.
"      3rd         "        "       "        "      "       "    2.
"      7th         "        "       "        "      "       "    2.
Aug. 3rd      "  Presc. Lance Abscess & Liniment Comp. N.W.   2.
"     29th       " Visit Prescrip & Meds. lit. neg. girl     2.
Nov. 18th     "  Visit & Extracting Tooth for Miss Mollie M.   1.50
Dec. 12th      " Visit Prescrip & Meds. for n.g. Martha Ann   2.
"       15th       "      "       "        "      "       "    2.
"       20th       "      "       "        "      "       "    2.
"       22nd       "      "       "        "      "       "    2.
"         "           "      Cupping Temples Etc. for n.g. Martha A.   1.
                                                                        $40.50
A.D. 1860.
Jan'y 23rd    To Visit Prescrip. Meds. Blisters. n.g. M.A.   2.
Feb'y. 1st       " Vial Collyrium for n g Martha Ann   .50   
"       10th     "  Prescrip. and Meds N.W. Hariet at office   1.50
"       16th     "  Visit Prescrip & Meds. Martha Ann's Eyes   2.
May  28th     "      "       "        "      "    for Self  &c.   2.
"       21st     "  2 Visits Prescrips & Meds. Etc Self   4.
June 19th    "  Bot. Cane. water & Sal Amoniac    "   .50
"       21st     "  Cauterizing Ulcer on cornea (Eye) n.g. M.A.   1.50
July 4th        "      "          "      "      "       "       "       "    1.50
"     10th        "      "          "      "      "       "       "       "    1.50
                     (Carried over)                                               $57.50

A.D. 1860. Mrs. Timney P. Phillips Dr. To W.F Hodnett        2.
July  10th  To Amount Brot from page 1st -- $57.50
July  20th  To Cauterizing Ulcer on cornea M.A.'s Eye   1.50
"       20th    "        "               "     "       "       "       "    1.50
Oct.   2nd    " Visit Prescrip & Meds. for n.m. Doctor   2.
"       5th     "  8 Doses Sulph. Quinine for Do.    Do.******   1.
"       6th     "  Visit Prescrip & Meds. for n.m. Enoch   2.
Nov. 12th   " Extracting Tooth for N.M. Enoch   1.
Dec. 1st     "  Cauterizing Ulcer on Cornea M.A.'s Eye   1.50
"       10th    "        "               "     "       "       "       "    1.50
"       20th    "        "               "     "       "       "       "    1.50
                                                                        $71.00
A.D.1861. Mrs. Timney P. Phillips Dr. To Hodnett & Lofton*******
Feb'y. 18th  "  Cauterizing Opasity Cornea Martha Ann's E.   1.50
"       21st    "        "               "             "       "       "    1.50
March 16th " Extracting Tooth for Self ---  1.
Aug. 9th.    "Visit Presc & Meds. for Self ---  2.
"      10th    " 2 Visit Prescrips & Meds. "   "  ---    4.
"      11th    "   "     "          "             "      "   "  ---    4.    
Sept. 20th  " Visit Prescrips. & Meds. for 3 Negroes   3.50
"        21st  "    "        "           "     "       "    "     "           3.50
Oct.  3rd    "    "        "           "     "      for 2 N. Girls   2.50  
"       4th    "    "        "           "     "      for Anarka[?] & M.A.   2.50
"       5th    "    "        "           "     "       "       "                  "  ---   2.50
"       6th    " 2 Visit Prescrips & Meds. "     "                  "   ---  4.50
"      7th    " Call Visits Prescrips & Meds.  "       "        "   ---    2.50
"       8th   "    "        "           "     "       "       "                  "  ---   2.50
"       9th   "    "        "           "     "       "       "                  "  ---   2.50
"        "     " 1 Bot. Terebinth Mist. Comp for Do. "       "    1.
"     10th     "   Visit Prescrips. & Meds. 2 Girls & Old Doct.  3.50
"     11th    "        "         "           "     "          "               "    3.50 
"     12th    "        "         "           "     "          "               "    3.50 
"     13th    " Call Visits Prescrips. Etc. for  "               "    2.
"     14th    "    "       "    Box Mustard & Vial Drops &c "   2.
                                                                       $56.00

A.D. 1862. Mrs. Timney P. Phillips Dr. To W.F Hodnett        3.
June 8th   To Prescrip. Bleeding & Meds. n.s. Hariet   2.50
Sept. 30th  " Visit Prescrip & Meds for n.g. Martha Ann   1.50
                                                                       $4.00
A.D.1863.
April 2nd  To Extracting Tooth for n.w. Hariet   1.
June 30th   " Prescrip & Sund. Meds. for old Doct.    1.50
July 2nd     " Dose Salts and vial Vit.[?] Sol "   "   .75
"      4th      " Visit Prescrip. & Meds. for "   "   1.50
Aug. 5th    " Prescrip. and Vial Med. Etc. n.w. Hariet   1.25
"      23rd   " Visit & Consultation with Dr. Hall         11.
"      25th    " 2 Visits, Prescrips. Att. Etc. Self at night   5.
"      26th   " Sundry Visits  "       "       "      "  &c. in day   5.
"      27th   "    "            "      "       "       "      "  &c. in day   5.
"      28th   "    "            "     "       "       "      "  &c. in day   5.
"        "       "   1 Bot. Terebinth Mist. Comp for Self --- 1.
"       29th   " Visit, Prescrip. Etc. for Self --- 1.50
"      30th    "   "          "          "       "    "    --- 1.50
"       31st   " 2 Visits Prescrips. Etc. for Self --- 3.
"        "        "  Visit Prescrip. & Sun Meds. n.w. Hariet   2.
Sept. 1st    " 2 Visits Prescrips Etc. for Self --- 3.
"        2nd  "  "     "          "         "      "     "    --- 3.
                                                                       $56.00
To Acct. for the year 1861                              56.00
"      "       "    "     "    1860 & Previously -      71.00
                                                                       $183.00

Received of J.D. Phillips Administrator
on the estate Timney P. Phillips, One hundred
and eighty-three dollars in full payment of
the foregoing Account This Jan'y 8th 1867
W.F. Hotnett, M.D.

The State of Alabama
Macon County
Personally came before me
R.T. Davis, an acting
Justice of the Peace in and for the county and state
aforsd, W.F. Hotnett, who on oath says that the
foregoing Accts are just and correct. and that they
This January, 8th 1867.

Sworn to &&
R.T. Davis. J.P.

And here's the sworn statement of neighbor (and creditor as seen here) J.W. Webb that he believed Dr. Hodnett's bill is credible because he had witnessed the doctor's visits during the that time.

Here's my transcript of Mr. Webb's testimony:

State of Alabama
Macon County

Personally came before
me an acting Justice of the
Peace for the county and State aforesaid
J.W. Webb who being duly sworn says that he
was a frequent visitor and near neighbor of
Mrs. Timney P. Phillips during the time that the 
within account was made, and he frequently
saw Dr. W.F. Hodnett attending there as the family
physician that he knows the fact of his being the 
regular attending Physician during the time em-
braced in the within acct. and that he has exam-
ined this Acct. and believes it to be correct.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 12 day
of April 1867.

J.W. Webb

Sworn to &&
R.T. Davis. J.P.

What we can surmise from the above account is that my third great grandmother final illness had reached a point where Dr. Hodnett was called to consult with Dr. Hall who had been treating Timney since May, 1863. Since this post is already very long, I'll deal with his much shorter bill next time.

Note: All the images in this post are to be found at: Source: Ancestry.com. Alabama, Wills and Probate Records, 1753-1999 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: Alabama County, District and Probate Courts.

*"Self" in this context refers to Timney herself.
**Frank Morgan, one of the children living with her in the 1860 U.S. Census, his sister Mollie was also treated by Dr. Hodnett.
***"N.W." is the abbreviation for "negro woman" and usually the name of the indivvidual is given. "N.M." and "n.g." designate the patient as a "negro man" and "negro girl" respectively.
****This entry refers to Harriet, one of Timney's slaves. Here are the names of the four enslaved persons listed in the inventory of her estate:

*****Lucky, one of the enslaved persons Timney acquired from her second husband, was in her mid-60s by this time. (This partial list below of slaves in John P. Phillips' estate in 1852 also includes Harriet.)

******"Do." is the abbreviation for ditto used here instead of the more usual ".
*******I don't know who "Lofton" is.


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