I do nominate and appoint my beloved wife Clarie Armintie Stanford to be the sole executrix of this my last will and testament without bond. In testimony whereof and hereunto set my hand and seal and publish and decree this to be my last will and testament in presence of the witnesses named below. This the 12^th day of March in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Six.

W.C. Stanford (Seal)

Signed, sealed and declared and published by the said W. C. Stanford as and for his last will and testament in presence of use who, at his request and in his presence, and in the presence of each other, have subscribed our names as witnesses hereto. S. H. Griffith and Alex Dunavin

Virginia, in the Clerk’s Office of the Circuit of Grayson County before J. B. Bryant Clerk of said Circuit Court, April 1^st 1906. The last will and testament of W. C. Stanford deceased [page cut off]

Estate Settlement:

Mrs. C. R. Stanford executrix of Wiley Stanford dec’d in account of his estate. April 1906

To legacy of Mrs. Rosa Pugh under will of deed $1.00

To legacy of Mrs. Irena Davis another sister of decedent under will $1.00

To legacy of Mrs. Nancy Halsey under will of decedent $1.00

To the heirs of Polly Rutherford legacy under will $1.00

To the heirs of Adline Phipps legacy under will of decedent $1.00

To legacy of J. M. Stanford under will $1.00

February 1907 Disbursements

Creed Rutherford, son of Polly Rutherford deceased 14 cents

Phina Sells, d/o Polly Rutherford 14 cents

N. C. Halsey, d/o Polly Rutherford 14 cents

Emily Ward, d/o Polly Rutherford 14 cents

T. R. Rutherford, s/o Polly Rutherford 14 cents

Wintie (?) Pugh, d/o Polly Rutherford 15 cents

D. W. Rutherford, d/o Polly Rutherford 15 cents

J. T. Phipps s/o Adline Phipps 25 cents

E. H. Phipps, s/o Adline Phipps 25 cents

P. A. Bishop, s/o Adline Phipps 25 cents

Dora Gans (?), d/o Adline Phipps  25 cents

Rosa Pugh $1.00

Irena Davis $1.00

Nancy Halsey $1.00

J. M. Stanford $1.00

By cash paid J. B. Bryant in full for recording this settlement $2.07

By cash paid J. S. Bourne in full for making this settlement, posting notices thereof noting same in fiduciary records, etc. $2.00

To the Hon. R. O. Jackson, Judge of the Circuit Court of Grayson:

The above named Mrs. C. R. Stanford, Executrix of Wiley Stanford, deceased, exhibited before your undersigned Commissioner of Accounts on the 16^th of March 1907, a statement of all funds which she received or become chargeable or disbursed within the year commencing April 1^st 190[6] and ending March 16^th 1907: together with his vouchers for such disbursements; and your Commissioner has stated and now reports the foregoing account of transactions of the said fiduciary, showing that she has fully executed the will of her decedent, except that she has not paid the legatee, J. M. Stanford, his legacy of one dollar under the will. Your Commissioner never completed this account until ten days & more after it had been mentioned in a list of the fiduciaries whose accounts were before him for settlement & whose names were posted at the front door of the Court house of the said Court on the first Monday in April 1907.