W.W. Walker letter, 1858 Nov. 15.

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W.W. Walker letter, 1858 Nov. 15.

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W.W. Walker of Mound Bayou, La., writes to Septimus Douglass Cabaniss, prominent Huntsville attorney and executor of the estate of Samuel Townsend, regarding the impending sale of 130 slaves. Walker had been making arrangements to go to Virginia to buy slaves for plantation use and for himself when he saw an announcement of the sale in the Huntsville newspaper. Samuel Townsend, a wealthy Madison County, Ala., planter, left a will leaving the bulk of his fortune to a selection of his slaves (many of whom were his children) and providing for their eventual manumission. The Townsend estate was sizeable and complicated in nature; overseeing the activities of these heirs, as well as the litigation involved in probating the estate, became a time-consuming endeavor.

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Walker, W. W. (William Wesley), 1858-1950

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Townsend, Samuel, d. 1856

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Cabaniss, Septimus Douglass, 1815-1889

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Septimus Douglass Cabaniss, the prominent Huntsville attorney perhaps best remembered for his role as executor for the estate of Samuel Townsend, was born December 18, 1815, in what would later become Madison County, Alabama. His parents, Charles and Lucy Ingram Cabaniss, moved from Lunenburg County, Virginia, to the Huntsville area in 1810. Cabaniss was their 12th child, born a year after his brother Charles Pines Cabaniss, who would later become a successful agent for the Bell Fac...