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\nProven: November, 1859<\/p>\n
I, David Shanks<\/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 First. I direct that my funeral expenses and all my 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 Executor.<\/p>\n Second. I give my land to my wife Nancy Shanks<\/span> during her life and if she should die before my youngest child comes of age, I want the land to remain together until it comes of age, and then I want the land sold and the proceeds equally divided between all my children.<\/p>\n Thirdly. I give to my wife Nancy Shanks<\/span> one horse and two cows and all my sheep and all my stock (of) hogs, all my household and kitchen furniture.<\/p>\n After leaving my wife one year’s provision, I want the balance of the grain and the remainder of stock of horses and cattle sold and the money after paying my debts &c to go the use of my family.<\/p>\n Lastly. I nominate and appoint William Sullivan<\/span> my Executor.<\/p>\n In witness whereof I do to this will set my hand and seal. This the 27th day of October, 1859.<\/p>\n David<\/span> [X<\/span>] Shanks<\/span> (his mark)<\/p>\n Signed, sealed and published in our presence, and we have subscribed our names hereto in the presence of the Testator. This the 27th day of October, 1859.<\/p>\n John Vaughn<\/span> Transcribed by Betty Mize<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Book ___, Page 462 Proven: November, 1859 I, David Shanks 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. I direct that my …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/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-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcribed-wills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","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=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1106,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions\/1106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWilliam Wyatt <\/span><\/p>\n
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