Usually, when one views the contents of a probate package, they expect to find papers and loose slips revealing information about the family and relatives of the deceased. Added notes appear in brackets.
Parentheses are present in the original text.
The State of Louisiana - Parish of Rapides On the 9th day of June 1860, George Mason Graham, surviving husband of Mary Eliza, eldest child of Capt. Judge Boyce executed a similar one in favor of Wm. L. Sanford, as Tutor of the minor children of Doctr. T. Sanford and his sister, Georgie B., wife of Saml. M. Robertson, Esqr., all of the surviving Heirs of their mother, the late Mrs. John T. Sanford of Brazoria in Texas, and who are all now residents of Baton Rouge in Loua., and represented herein by the above named, G. Mason Graham, acting under their special Power of Attorney of date 29th of April 1882, which is herewith filed and made a part of this Act - and the three surviving children of the said G. Mason Graham from his marriage with Mary Eliza Wilkinson, and who are Duncan John Graham, Amy b., wife of David T. Stafford, all three residents of the Parish of Rapides, and Fergus Richd.