Affidavit of Samuel & Rachel Thames 1851 Coffee Co AL.

State of Alabama )
County of Coffee )

On this the 26th day of May AD 1851 Personally appeared before me 
Moses W Helms a Justice of the peace within and for the county of 
Coffee and State of Alabama, Samuel Thames and Rachiel Thames who 
being each first duly sworn according to law depose and say on their 
oaths aforesaid that they were intimately acquainted with James 
Sutley deceased and also with Mary Sutley that their acquaintence 
commenced with them about forty years ago in the State of South 
Carolina when for many years they knew them as man and wife and 
they also knew them (the deceased & the said Mary) as man & wife 
as aforesaid in the State of Georgia up to his death which they 
believe was on the day mentioned in her within affidavit, that 
affiant the deceased & the said Mary moved together from South 
Carolina to Georgia and after the death of the said James Sutley 
that his said widow moved with them to the state of Alabama, that 
they are now residents of the county of Coffee in the State of Alabama 
that they often saw the original pension certificate of the deceased 
in his possession before his death and frequently in the possession of 
his said widow since his decease that they fully corroborate her 
affidavit herein set forth - that they know her to be the widow of said 
deceased & still to be a widow.

Gaffa T Yelverton                                   Rachiel Thames
Stephen Thames                                      Sam Thames

Sworn to and subwcribed before me the day and year above written.

                                                   Moses W Helms J.P.