Petition #20185330

Abstract

Informed that the guardian for his children is about to resign, G. W. Gayle requests that James L. Evans be appointed to manage his children's property. The children, Margaret and Thomas Gayle, are slaveholding minors. Gayle recognizes that as their father "he is entitled to their guardianship, high over any one else," but he states that "your petitioner does not wish to take it, if it can be avoided." The petitioner believes that Tabitha Kornegay, his children's grandmother, also wishes to be their guardian and "he enters his protest, and most solemn objection," against her appointment. It is Gayle's opinion that sixty-six-year-old Kornegay is "wholly unfit, from her sex, & extreme old age, to manage the estate of any ward to its advantage," and he concludes, "she has no more legal right to the guardianship of his children than Mr. Evans or any one else."

Result: Granted.

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Citation information

Repository: Dallas County Courthouse, Selma, Alabama

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