MARY ELLA FAULKNER
Petition Ex Partee

Be it remembered that this cause was this day heard upon the sworn petition of MARY ELLA FAULKNER and Exibit A thereto and proof when it appeared to the court that the petitioner is now a resident and citizen of Crockett County Tenn and has been for two years, that she was formally a citizen of Lauderdale County Tennessee and while a citizen of said county by inquisition of lunicy regularly had in the County Court of said county of Lauderdale she was at the July term 1878 of said county adjudged a lunatic or person of unsound mind and incapable of managing her own estate and the petitioner now claiming that she has become restored in mind and it appearing that Doctors J. W. POSTON and B. MOORE respectable physitions of Crockett County have certified in writing that she is of sound mind. It is therefore ordered adjudged and decreed that the sherriff of Crockett County fourth with summons a Jury of twelve freeholders or householders to assertain by inquisition the condition of said MARY ELLA FAULKNER's mind which shall be and is hereby ordered returnable to the present term of the court.