{"id":1060,"date":"2014-01-31T16:06:18","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T21:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2014-01-31T16:06:18","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T21:06:18","slug":"lee-clinton-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/lee-clinton-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Will of Clinton Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book 2, Pages 155-156<br \/>\nFiled and Proven: November 1, 1875<\/p>\n<p>I <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Clinton Lee<\/span> do make and publish this as my last will and testament, hereby revoking and making void all other wills by me at any time made.<\/p>\n<p>First &#8212; I direct that my funeral expenses and all just debts be paid as soon after my death as possible out of any moneys that I may die possessed of or may first come into the hands of my executors.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly &#8212; I give and bequeath to <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">David Lee<\/span>, my son, and one dollar of my real estate and also I bequeath unto <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Martha Wright<\/span>, my daughter, one dollar of my real estate.<\/p>\n<p>I bequeath unto <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Sarah Ann Mefford<\/span>, my daughter, one dollar of my real estate.<\/p>\n<p>I bequeath unto <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">William Lee<\/span>, my son, and the youngest daughter will and unto each of them one dollar of my real estate.<\/p>\n<p>I will and bequeath unto <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Gr__ F. Lee<\/span>, all of my real estate and two hundred and eighty acres of land more or less.<\/p>\n<p>Also I will and bequeath unto <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Gr__ F. Lee<\/span>, and his heirs and assignees forever.<\/p>\n<p>I do hereby nominate and appoint <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Thomas C. Miller<\/span> my executors.<\/p>\n<p>In witness whereof I do to this my will set my hand and seal this the 18th day of February 1870.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Clinton<\/span> [<span style=\"font-style: italic\">X<\/span>] <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Lee<\/span> (his mark) (seal)<\/p>\n<p>Signed, sealed and published in our presence and we have subscribed our names hereto in the presence of the testator this day of 18 February 1870.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">F. C. Lee<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold\"> William H. Lee <\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Transcribed by Betty Mize<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book 2, Pages 155-156 Filed and Proven: November 1, 1875 I Clinton Lee do make and publish this as my last will and testament, hereby revoking and making void all other wills by me at any time made. First &#8212; <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/lee-clinton-will\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcribed-wills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1063,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}