=  James S. Gibbes  =

State of South Carolina }
  County of Charleston  }

                        Present:  Honorable William E. 
Vincent Probate Judge for the County of Charleston

Personally appeared [before me] G.M. Trenholm, subscribing 
witness to the annexed instrument of writing, purporting 
to be the fifth and last Codocil to the Last Will and 
Testament of James S. Gibbes, late of Charleston, deceased
who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith that he the said
was present and did see the said instrument of writing 
duly executed by the said James S. Gibbes. And deponent 
further saith that the said James S. Gibbes, at the time of 
executing the said instrument of writing, was, to the 
best of deponents Knowledge and belief of sound and dis-
posing mind, memory and understanding, and that 
G.M. Trenholm (the deponent) and R.A. Kinloch and J.S.
Buist, in the presence of each other and of the said James 
S. Gibbes, and at his request, signed their names as
witnesses to the due execution of the same.   
    Sworn and subscribed to before me this   }
First day of May in the year of our Lord     } 
One thousand eight hundred and eighty eight  }

State of South Carolina }
Charleston County       }
                         I William E. Vincent, Judge 
of Probate in and for the County and State aforesaid do 
hereby Certify that the within fifth Codocil to the Last Will 
and Testament of James S. Gibbes, deceased, was this day 
admitted to Probate in common form upon the Oath of G.M.
Trenholm, one of the subscribing witnesses to the same, and
that R.B. Ferris H.S. Holmes John Haile & E.H. Sparkman 
obtained Letters Testamentary
                         (signed)  W.E. Vincent, P.J.