Petition #20185810

• Lauderdale County, Alabama. filing started November 3, 1858.
• Court: Probate
• Salutation: To the Honorable Wiley T Hawkins Judge of the Probate Court of Lauderdale County

Abstract

Ellen M. Weakley and other executors of the estate of James H. Weakley, deceased, request permission to sell thirty slaves to pay off debts. Most of the other property in the estate consists of stocks, which could not be sold for a profit. The slaves, primarily young children and teenagers, on the other hand, will bring returns "fully up to their market value."

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Related documents: Affidavit, James H. Donigan, 3 November 1858.
• Pages of related documents: 0

35 people are documented within petition 20185810

• 30 Enslaved
• 4 Petitioners
• 1 Other

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Citation information

Repository: Lauderdale County Courthouse, Florence, Alabama

• Records of the Probate Court, Estates, Inventory Book C
• Page: 544-45

Subjects

• Inventory (enslaved)