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Editha TIMS, Deceased                                         Filed Oct 19th, 1877
Petition for Letters of Administration

The State of Alabama
Choctaw County                 To B. H. WARREN, Judge of Probate, for said county, 
the petition of L. J. MOONEY respectfully represents that he is an inhabitant of 
said state & county, and is upwards of twenty-one years of age, that Editha TIMS 
departed this life intestate, on or about the 27th day of April 1877, more than 
forty days since, leaving property in this state and county, to the best of 
petitioner's information, knowledge, and belief, of about the value of nine hundred 
dollars, and not probably more, that said Editha TIMS was an inhabitant of 
this county at the time of her death, that the heirs and distributees of the estate 
of said decedent, as your petitioner is advised and believes, are as follows, viz:  
John TIMS, Nancy TIMS, Editha SMITH, a widowed daughter, 
Sarah A. TIMS and Martha K. TIMS, all of full age & reside in this 
county, Susan R. BYERS, of full age and resides in the State of Mississippi, 
Sarah A. COKER and Rebecca FELTS, of full age and reside in the State 
of Mississippi, Thos. TIMS, Virginia TIMS, Beauregard TIMS, 
minors & reside in this county, Benjamin TIMS, Newton TIMS, Joseph 
TIMS, and Charlotte TIMS, minors and reside in Clarke County, Mississippi, 
that the heirs and distributees are desirous that your petitioner be appointed 
Administrator upon said estate, in consideration of the premises, your petitioner 
prays Your Honor, that such steps may be taken, and such orders and decrees made 
as may be deemed necessary and proper to secure the appointment of your petitioner 
to that trust, according to law, and upon his giving the requisite bond and security

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and as in duty bound, & c                                   
Sworn to & subscribed before me                              
this the 19th day of October 1877                                L. J. MOONEY
                    B. H. WARREN, Judge of Probate                           
        Recorded November 29th, 1877
                     B. H. WARREN, Judge of Probate

Editha TIMS, Deceased, Estate of         
Letters of Administration                                  Filed October 19th, 1877

The State of Alabama
Choctaw County                         Court of Probate 
                      Letters of Administration, on the estate of Editha TIMS, 
dec'd, are hereby granted to Lemuel J. MOONEY, who has duly qualified and 
given bond as such Administrator, and is authorized to administer such estate, 
dated this 19th day of October, A. D. 1877                     B. H. WARREN
                                                    Judge of Probate of said county
                  Recorded November 29th 1877
                       B. H. WARREN, Judge of Probate