Last Will of Mrs. India Brown;  Tensas Parish, Louisiana
   Copied from Book A, Records of Wills and Donations, Tensas Parish Courthouse
   Copied and Submitted by Edith Ziegler, AUG 2000


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I hereby make, publish and declare this to be my last will and testament
   in olographic form-
     I give to Phillie D. Stampley, my nephew, of Jefferson County, 
   Mississippi;Two thousand dollars- 
     I give to my friend Cleora Trimble-Two thousand dollars-
     I give to my friend Elizabeth Clinton, Two thousand dollars-
     I give to my friend Joseph Curry, Two thousand dollars-
     I give to the Union Church in St. Joseph, Tensas Parish, Louisiana 
  One thousand dollars-
     I give to the Episcopal Church in St. Joseph, Tensas Parish, Louisiana 
  One thousand dollars-
     I give to my friend and companion, Sarah Etta Harper, my house and lot 
  that I live in with its entire contents and Ten thousand dollars and my 
  diamonds; she to dispose of the balance of my jewelry and give to charity 
  as she sees fit-
     I instruct my executor to just pay off the special legacies in my will, 
  and then to sell the property I may die possessed of-invest Five hundred 
  dollars in some safe interest bearing securities, to be deposited in some 
  bank in  Natchez, Mississippi; the interest from which is to be turned 
  over to the Natchez City Preservation and Improvement Association, in 
  Natchez, Mississippi- to be used by said association for the purpose of 
  keeping the grave of my late husband, Atlas F. Brown and my own grave and 
  lot in the cemetery in said Natchez, Mississippi in good order, the balance 
  of said interest if any to be used by said "Association" for charitable 
  purposes-
     I give to India Brown Waugh (now in Denver, Colorado), my name sake, 
  my handsome black lace shawl, the India work, framed and hung on the wall, 
  and the brass cup from India in my cabinet-
     I give desire and bequeath all the balance of my property- both real and 
  personal to the Charity Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana, the Charity 
  Hospital in Natchez, Mississippi and the "Protestant" Orphans home in Natchez, 
  Mississippi to be divided equally among them-
     I appoint Joseph Curry of St. Joseph, Tensas Parish, State of Louisiana 
  Executor of this my last will and testament, without bond, with seizure of 
  my Estate-
     In testimony whereof I have written, dated and signed this instrument in 
  my own proper hand writing on this the twenty day of May, nineteen hundred 
  and ten in the town of St. Joseph, Parish of Tensas, and State of Louisiana-
     This article revokes all other wills or codicils made by me.

   (Signed)India Brown


   written and signed:
   ne "Varietur"
   March 19, 1923
   N. M. Calhoun, District Judge