Following the death of Sarah M. Gerrald, a minor, her guardian, Balinda Mosser, formerly Balinda Gerrald, made a final settlement of her accounts. Sarah's sister Eliza Tompkins claims that many of the charges against the estate should not have been allowed. Moreover, she contends that she and her three minor brothers should be included as heirs. Eliza Tompkins asks that guardians be appointed for the three minors and that they all be granted a "distributive share." In a related petition, filed ten years earlier before the death of Sarah Gerrald, Balinda Mosser was then identified as Malinda Gerrald and Sarah's mother. In the same related petition, the slave Minerva, who is mentioned in this petition as having four children under the age of ten, was shown as the mother of three now grown slaves, Zeno, Holland, and Maranza (the latter identified in the related petition as Maranda).
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Repository: Pike County Courthouse, Troy, Alabama
