Will Book __, Page 369
\nProven: Oct. 4, 1848<\/p>\n
In the Name of God, Amen.<\/p>\n
I Joseph Middlecoff<\/b> being feeble in health but of disposing mind and memory do make & publish this my last Will and Testament.<\/p>\n
I give my body to be buried in a Christian-like manner at the discretion of my friends and my soul to return to God who gave it.<\/p>\n
Next, all my just debts to be paid.<\/p>\n
I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Patsy<\/b> all my property of every description, both real and personal for her comfortable support and the raising of my children so long as she shall remain my widow.<\/p>\n
It is my will that my son George<\/b> have the tract of land which I purchased from Pleasant N<\/b>. Lee<\/b> and on which there is a saw mill. One-third of the saw mill is mine and the other George<\/b>‘s. I wish the land and my interest in the mill to be valued and the final division of my property for my son George<\/b> to pay to my other heirs the valuation of said land, together with my interest in said mill. I wish the line of the said tract of land to commence on a hornbeam corner to my old tract of land and corner to the said tract I purchased from Lee<\/b>, running thence in a north direction straight with the fence to the corner and for this line to be the dividing line between the two tracts of land.<\/p>\n
If my said wife should ever marry, which I do not expect she will, I wish my Estate to be divided between her and my children according to law.<\/p>\n
It is my will that my beloved wife Patsy<\/b> should remain in the quiet and unmolested possession of all my property as before mentioned during her widowhood or her natural life and at her death I wish my property of every description both real and personal to be equally divided between my lawful heirs.<\/p>\n
It is my will that it be left to the choice of my son George<\/b> whether he take the land and the mill as above mentioned. If he does not, I wish it to be disposed of as my other lands and for George<\/b>‘s interest in the mill being two-thirds to be valued and for George<\/b> to be paid the valuation by the other heirs when a final division shall take place.<\/p>\n
I wish my son George<\/b> to have entire control of the saw mill and to pay his mother one-third of the proceeds thereof until the final division takes place<\/p>\n
and I do hereby nominate and appoint my sons John Thomas<\/b> and George<\/b> Executors to this my last Will and Testament.<\/p>\n
This 20th day of September in the year of our Lord, one Thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.<\/p>\n
Joseph<\/b> [X<\/span>] Middlecoff<\/b> (seal)<\/p>\n Witnesses:<\/p>\n Thomas J. Lee This Hawkins County Will was transcribed by one of the following volunteers:\u00a0 Audrae Mathis; Gary Fletcher; Betty Mize; Diana Arney; Karen Negron, Kathey Welder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Will Book __, Page 369 Proven: Oct. 4, 1848 In the Name of God, Amen. I Joseph Middlecoff being feeble in health but of disposing mind and memory do make & publish this my last Will and Testament. I give …<\/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-1603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcribed-wills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603","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=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1605,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions\/1605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nA. W. Farris<\/b><\/p>\n
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