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Ellic Milsted being duly sworn testifies as follows. I left the Ranche Zacatel about the last of December 1865, in Company with my mother Annie Milsted and Abram Milsted my father to go to Sabine Pass, Texas. I drove the Buggy from the Ranche to Brownsville, containing Abram Milsted and Annie Milsted and Family. They remained there about a month and I returned to the Ranche to get some cattle and drive them to Brownsville and sell them for Abram Milsted. After that I, in company with my father and mother and their family proceeded to White’s Ranche, where Abram Milsted (my father) was taken sick and died at the time of his death I saw Abram Milsted give the key of his trunk containing his money to George Milsted and he said that he (George Milsted) must give to me (Ellie Milsted) two hundred dollars and the remainder to be divided equally between Annie Milsted and himself (George Milsted) and that he (George Milsted) must be Guardian over my mother and her children and do what was right with her, subsequently Abram Milsted died, and George Milsted and his family went to Brazos Santiago and myself and mother and the rest of the children came back to Brownsville. I brought back from White's Ranche one trunk and three mules and one wagon. The trunks belonged to my mother. My mother brought back one trunk and her bed clothing, all of which belonged to her personally. I gave my mother that morning sixty dollars of my own money to keep for me. She had some

Transcription Notes:
Ranche Zacatel still searchable (the cemetary there) online This writer puts an "e' at the end of Ranch. Perhaps it's a regional spelling?