Will of S. H. Midyett - Dated Nov 1911

IN THE NAME OF GOD--AMEN

I, S.H. MIDYETT, BEING OF SOUND MIND AND MEMORY AND KNOWING THE UNCERTAINTY OF LIFE AND THE CERTAINTY OF DEATH DO HEREBY MAKE AND PUBLISH THIS MY LAST WILL & TESTAMENT, MAKING VOID ANY & ALL OTHER WILLS BY ME AT ANY TIME MADE.

1st: I DIRECT THAT ALL OF MY JUST DEBTS BE PAID.

2nd: I HEREBY GIVE AND BEQUEATH TO MY BELOVED WIFE NANCY J. MIDYETT ALL OF MY PROPERTY, BOTH REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY, INCLUDING NOTES, MANY ACCTS. CHOSEN IN ACTION OR OTHER EVIDENCE OF DEBT, TO HAVE AND HOLD THE SAME DURING HER NATURAL LIFE, AND AT HER DEATH THE SAME SHALL DESCEND TO MY THREE CHILDREN NAMES BEING VIZ--J.R. MIDYETT, F.T. MIDYETT AND MARY JANE CASEY, BUT OF THE PERSONAL PROPERTY MY EXECUTOR SHALL GIVE FIFTY DOLLARS EACH TO MY GRANDCHILDREN, JONA THOMAS, LULA THOMAS AND MOSES COX. THESE THREE LAST NAMED WERE REARED BY ME HENCE & LIMIT THEIR SHARE AS ABOVE NAMED TO FIFTY DOLLARS EACH.

3rd: I NOMINATE AND APPOINT J.R. MIDYETT, F.T. MIDYETT AND R.E. CASEY, EXECUTORS TO CARRY OUT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS WILL. SHOULD EITHER DIE, THE REMAINING ONES SHALL ACT. NO BOND REQUIRED. GIVEN UNDER MY HAND THIS NOV. 1911.

S. H. MIDYETT

WITNESS:
C.A. GOODLOE
A.F. TIPTON