<petition><petition_analysis_number>21085309</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/21085309</petition_url><state>Mississippi</state><county>Lauderdale</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_day>13</file_day><file_month>6</file_month><file_year>1853</file_year><filing_court>Probate</filing_court><end_date_circa>y</end_date_circa><end_year>1854</end_year><ending_court>Probate</ending_court><result>granted</result><enslaved_count>0</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>1</total_people_count><repository>Lauderdale County Archives, Meridian, Mississippi</repository><abstract>Thomas Wells seeks to be appointed the administrator of the estate of Mary Wells.  The petitioner states that his mother died "leaving a small personal estate consisting of one old negro woman, 1 negro girl some few cattle &amp; hogs, one horse &amp; some little house hold furniture supposed to be worth about twelve hundred dollars."  Wells reports that his mother died in late May 1853.</abstract><subjects><subject>Crops (Cotton)</subject></subjects></petition>