Barela v. Roberts

Juan Barela made application in the District Court of Matagorda county for letters of guardianship of the person of Milly Barela.

The petitioner- avers that the said Milly is the illegitimate child of himself and one Mary Jamison, now deceased, and that she is about six years af age ; that he supported the said mother and child from its birth until the death of its mother, who departed this life some time during the year 1869 ; that the mother, on her deathbed, entrusted the child to his care and custody; and that the mother died without property of any kind, and left her child entirely…