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Will of Margaret Tate

In the name of God, Amen.

I, Margaret Tate, of the county of Baldwin and State of
Alabama
being sound in mind but not in body and feeling the uncertainty of life do hereby revoking all others make this my last will and
testament.
. . .

6th

To my beloved daughter JOSEPHINE B. DREISBACK and her
heirs. I give and bequeath one negro man named Dick, one negro woman Bella, and her four children named Pheobe, Hardy, Dick
and Mary, one negro girl named Rose, one negro woman
named Amy and her three children named Tina, Milly, and Fanny, one negro woman named Flora, one old negro man named
Jonah, it is my wish the old man named Jonah shall do no hard work. I wish my daughter Josephine to have my watch and all
of my household furniture, my Carriage and old Horse to her
and her heirs forever.

. . .

Amy Webster first appeared on the same census page as my second great grandmother, Delia Bailey Grant. This was the paramount piece of the puzzle. So, let’s begin.

Samuel Grant m. Delia Webster [Bailey] after the Civil War in Baldwin County, Alabama, on 31 Jul 1869.¹

TO BE CONTINUED

1“Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTWT-LTT : 19 February 2021), Sam Grant and Delia Webster, 31 Jul 1869; citing Baldwin, Alabama, United States, County Probate Courts, Alabama; FHL microfilm 1,839,621.