Contributed by Beverly Giles Loffler <bgloffler@attbi.com>, DEC 2002.

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TALLAPOOSA COUNTY WILL BOOK 1
pages 72 and 73

The State of Alabama
Tallapoosa County

I, SOLOMON LACKS, being of sound and disposing mind and memory, but feeble in body, do make and constitute this my last will and testament hereby revoking all others heretofore made by me.

Item the 1st.
I will that all my just debts be paid by my executors.

Item the 2nd.
I will and bequeath all of my lands in Tallapoosa County and known as the East half of the South West quarter of Section Twenty four in Township Twenty two of Range twenty two, and the South West quarter of the South West quarter of Section thirteen in the same township and Range to my Brothers and the heirs of their bodies, viz. WILLIAM LACKS, BENJAMIN LACKS and JOHN LACKS of Halifax County in the State of Virginia, also my sorrel mare, all of my stock of hogs, my Kitchen furniture, and two chairs and one table.

Item 3rd.
I will and bequeath my claybank mare colt and all of my farming utensils to JAMES RAY.

Item 4th.
I will and bequeath to my beloved wife JANE LACKS two cows and two yearlings, and all of my household furniture not heretofore disposed of to my three Brothers.

Item the 5th.
I hereby constitute and appoint WILLIAM C. GRISHAM and JAMES RAY my executors to carry out the provisions of this my last will and testament, and it is my desire that my said Executors pay whatever debts I may be owing at the time of my death out of the crop that may be growing at the time, or on hand.

Signed, Sealed, Published and Declared in our presence this 11th day of May A. D. 1852.
SIMON GOOLSBY
LUKE DAVENPORT
CHURCHWELL CORPRENS (?)

SOLOMON LACKS
(Seal)

The State of Alabama
Tallapoosa County

Personally came into open court on this the 14th day of February A. D. 1853. LUKE DAVENPORT and CHURCHWELL CORPRENS (?) who being first duly sworn, on oath says that they as subscribing witnesses, attested the signing, sealing and publishing that it bears the date thereof and that the same was signed in their presence by the said SOLOMON LACKS the said testor after the same had been read over to him, and that SIMON GOOLSBY whose name also appears as a subscribing witness thereto, also signed and witnessed the same in the presence of each of us, and that in our opinion the said testor, the said SOLOMON LACKS was of sound and disposing mind and memory at the time of making, signing and publishing the said will, and that the same was done by him of his own free will, without any undue influence.

Sworn to and subscribed in open Court on this the 14th day of Feby 1853.

CHURCHWELL CORPRENS (?)
LUKE DAVENPORT

M. C. LANE, Judge

The foregoing will was propounded for Record January the 31th 1853 and duly proven in open Court February the 14th 1853 and ordered to be file and Recorded, and duly Recorded the 17th day of February 1853.

M. C. LANE, Judge of Probate
By SIMON GOOLSBY, Clerk

SOME GENEALOGY NOTES:

Solomon Lacks can be found below:

Solomon Lacks married Jane Echols Ray Farrow on 30 Nov 1834 in Meriwether Co., GA

Jane Echols married Solomon Ray on 5 Apr 1796 in Wilkes Co., GA. She then married Tinch Farrow on 4 Aug 1818 in Jasper Co., GA

U. S. Census Tallapoosa Co., AL 1840
Page 180
Sol Lacks
Males
10-15=1
50-60=1 (b. between 1780 and 1790)
Females
10-15=1
60-70=1 (b. between 1770 and 1780)
Not in AL in 1850

Georgia Cherokee Land Lottery 1832
Number District Name Residence County Comment
155 EIGHTH DISTRICT, SECOND SECTION, CHEROKEE Solomon Lacks Griffin's Meriwether

LACKS, SOLOMON
Land Office: MONTGOMERY Sequence #:
Document Number: 4113 Total Acres: 40.11
Misc. Doc. Nr.: Signature: Yes
Canceled Document: No Issue Date: April 1, 1837
Mineral Rights Reserved: No Metes and Bounds: No
Survey Date: Statutory Reference: 3 Stat. 566
Multiple Warantee Names: No Act or Treaty: April 24, 1820
Multiple Patentee Names: No Entry Classification: Sale-Cash Entries

Legal Land Description:
# Aliquot Parts Block # Base Line Fractional Section Township Range Section #
1 SESW ST STEPHENS No 22N 22E 24

In Tallapoosa Co., AL

LACKS, SOLOMON
Land Office: MONTGOMERY Sequence #:
Document Number: 6901 Total Acres: 40.11
Misc. Doc. Nr.: Signature: Yes
Canceled Document: No Issue Date: May 01, 1839
Mineral Rights Reserved: No Metes and Bounds: No
Survey Date: Statutory Reference: 3 Stat. 566
Multiple Warantee Names: No Act or Treaty: April 24, 1820
Multiple Patentee Names: No Entry Classification: Sale-Cash Entries

Legal Land Description:
# Aliquot Parts Block # Base Line Fractional Section Township Range Section #
1 NESW ST STEPHENS No 22N 22E 24

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