Harriett Graves is entitled to a share of her grandmother's estate, including $528.78 that came from the sale of slaves. After her grandmother's death, the heirs "proceeded to sell her estate & divide it among themselves without any regular administration being obtained." In this process, Tennent Lomax, Harriett's brother acting as her agent, received more than five hundred dollars. Harriett's husband, Thomas Graves, is insolvent and Harriett desires to protect her inheritance; she therefore asks the court to appoint Lomax as trustee of her property and to permit her (through him) to invest three hundred dollars in a female slave named Katherine "now in her possession" and whom Lomax is willing to sell to her. She claims to be "greatly attached" to Katherine who is of great value.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Barbour County Clerk's Office, Clayton, Alabama
