Nuncupative Will of Mrs. Mary Rushing

Mary Rushing wife of Maj. James Paul Rushing died on 22 August 1837 shortly after executing her spoken Will. She is buried in the Old Belmont Cemetery, Sumter County, Alabama.

Nuncupative Will
Mrs. Mary Rushing}
Last Will ????}
Recorded 15^th Feby}
1838}
On 16 August 1837 Mrs. Mary Rushing being ill at my house & as she said could not live requested me if she should die at my house to hand over to her daughter Clary Jackson a certain Negro girl named Charity which was thus waiting on her which property she said she had intended for said daughter. -                                                                               -James Durden"

The State of Alabama} Febry 15^th 1838
Sumter County} James Durden this day came into Court and Swore to the within and that the said Mary Rushing was of Sound and disposing mind when she Spoke the same and the Jury having found the same a good and valid will. It is ordered by the Court that the same be probated & recorded. In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and Subscribe my name this day and date above.
                                                                                     Price Williams, Clk


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[1[ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C957-VSDX-4?cat=197236 >> Records Book 1, Page 74; Sumter County, Alabama