Book 2, Page 168
\nProven: April 2, 1877<\/p>\n
In the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy one. November 28th day 1871.<\/p>\n
I Elizabeth Grigsby<\/span> have this day made and do make this my last will and testament and publish this as the same hereby revoking and making void all other will by me at any time made.<\/p>\n 2nd — My will and desire is that as soon after my death as practicable, I wish my just debts including my funeral expenses be paid out of any money that may come to my representatives hands out of my personal estate.<\/p>\n 3rd — I give to my daughter Elizabeth Jane Beck<\/span> one bed and my daughter Serena White<\/span> one bed, no cover with neither, my son James<\/span> my clock and wagon.<\/p>\n I give to my granddaughter, Winney Ernestine Grigsby<\/span> my c______.<\/p>\n The remainder of all my personal property including my mare to be sold at ___ to the highest bidder and all the money after my debts are paid be divided among my children as follows:<\/p>\n My son John S. Grigsby<\/span> and my daughter Winney Self<\/span> one dollar each, and the balance to be equally divided between the rest of my children to wit: Henry Grigsby<\/span>, Polly A. Couch<\/span>, John Grigsby<\/span>, Samuel Grigsby<\/span>, James Grigsby<\/span>, Elizabeth Jane Beck<\/span>, Serena White<\/span>, Martha Long<\/span> and Polly Ann Arnott<\/span> to have Polly A. Couch<\/span>‘s part<\/p>\n and if my clothing can be divided equally and agreeable with my heirs made equal in this will. I would rather, otherwise to be sold and the proceeds divided as aforesaid.<\/p>\n I now give to my youngest son, James D. Grigsby<\/span>, a certain piece of land being fifty acres more of less said tract of land was give to me by my father Henry Loudeback<\/span>, including my homestead and buildings.<\/p>\n I do nominate and appoint my son James D. Grigsby<\/span> my Executor to my last will and testament,<\/p>\n in witness whereof I do to this my last will set my hand and seal this the 28th day of November 1871.<\/p>\n Signed this day and date above mentioned<\/p>\n Elizabeth<\/span> [X<\/span>] Grigsby<\/span> (her mark)<\/p>\n Signed sealed and published in our presents —<\/p>\n Witnesses:<\/p>\n David Everhart<\/span> Transcribed by Betty Mize<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Book 2, Page 168 Proven: April 2, 1877 In the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy one. November 28th day 1871. I Elizabeth Grigsby have this day made and do make this my last will and …<\/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-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcribed-wills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","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=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1142,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions\/1142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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