Affidavit of Samuel Duggins

Affidavit: Coleman County, Texas Deed Book 106, pg. 72. 16 Feb. 1918: Filed 6 March 1918.

"The State of Texas, County of Brown: Before me, R. L. McGaugh, a Notary Public, in and for Brown County, Texas, who being by me duly sworn on oath says: That he is the only surviving child of the marriage of James B. Duggins and Mrs. E. J. Duggins, all the other children of said marriage having died before reaching their maturity and without issue that the said James B. Duggins abandoned Mrs. E. J. Duggins in the year 1876, and she was divorced from him three or four years thereafter: that about 1890 or 1891 Mrs. E. J. Duggins married J. W. Kile; That between the time of the desertion of her by her first husband and her marriage to J. W. Kile there was born to Mrs. E. J. Duggins out of wedlock, children, all of whom assumed their mother's married name, to-wit: Docia Duggins, who married George C. Starr; Robert L. Duggins, commonly known as Lee Duggins, and L. C. Duggins commonly known as Clinton Duggins; That Mrs. E. J. Kile died about 1900; that only one child born of the marriage of said Mrs. E. J. Duggins to J. W. Kile reached the age of maturity, to-wit: L. A. Kile, all the rest of the children born of said marriage having died in infancy or early youth, and without issue, that this affidavit made as supplementary to and for the purpose of explaining an affidavit made by this affiant J. W. Kile and L. A. Kile on March 12, 1915, and recorded in Book 91, page 402, of the Records of Deeds of Coleman County, Texas.

Witness my hand this 16th day of February, A. D., 1918. S. H. Duggins

Subscribed and sworn to before me by S. H. Duggins this February 16th, A. D., 1918. R. L. McGaugh, Notary Public, Brown County, Texas."