F. M. Jackson and Abner S. Lathrop asks to be appointed executors of the estate of William Ward of Brazoria County, whom they presume died fighting for the Confederacy in Tennessee in the regiment known as Terry's Texas Rangers. They explain that Ward regularly wrote to his agent in Texas until a certain point in 1862. They further offer that it is the "universal belief of his comrades in arms, his kindred in Alabama, and Texas and of the community" that he died on the battlefield. Ward drew up a will before he left Texas, and the petitioners ask the court to approve its submission to probate. An inventory of Ward's estate reveals that the decedent owned 82 slaves and more than 2300 acres of land. The inventory breaks the said slaves into 20 separate family units.
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Repository: Brazoria County Courthouse, Angleton, Texas
