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The State of Alabama Northern
Chancery Division, 27th District
Court holden at Moulton
To any Sheriff of the State of Alabama
Greeting
Whereas Owen O. Nelson guardian
for John B. Sherrod, Frederick
Sherrod, Felix Sherrod and Benjamin
Sherrod, minor children of Frederick
O. A. Sherrod, dec^d and William P.
McMahan guardian for Henry C
Sherrod and Walter Sherrod, minor
children of Samuel W. Sherrod, dec^d
and guardian for Benjamin
Sherrod, Francis E. Sherrod and Alice
C. Sherrod, de minor children of
Felix A.M. Sherrod, dec^d defendants
in the cause pending in the
Chancery Court for said District in
which Samuel W. Shackelford and
Charles F. Sherrod, administrators
de bonis non with the will
annexed of Benjamin Sherrod, dec^d
are complainants, and the heirs,
legatees and devisees of said
Benjamin Sherrod, dec^d et al., are
defendants, did on the 24th
day of March, 1857, take an
appeal from the final decree