{"id":534,"date":"2012-07-22T18:30:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T23:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/maury\/?p=534"},"modified":"2019-01-03T16:15:29","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T22:15:29","slug":"ragan-nancy-1905","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/maury\/ragan-nancy-1905\/","title":{"rendered":"RAGAN, Nancy (1905)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nancy Ragan’s Will , admitted to Probate Oct 9, 1905<\/span><\/p>\n

I Nancy Ragan<\/strong> being of mature years, of sound mind , and considering the\u00a0frailty of life and the certainty of death, do make and publish this as my\u00a0last will and testament which is as follows to wit.<\/span><\/p>\n

That my burial expenses shall be paid and my doctors bill if there be any.<\/span><\/p>\n

That my personal property shall be distributed as follows ;<\/span>
\n To my son John<\/strong> one dollar, to my daughter Martha Robason<\/strong> one dollar, to my\u00a0son James<\/strong> one dollar, to the children of my daughter Lemiza Brown<\/strong> one dollar\u00a0equally devided between them, to my son Andrew<\/strong> one dollar, to my daughter\u00a0Mary Robason<\/strong> one dollar, to the children of my daughter Elizabeth Brown<\/strong> one\u00a0dollar equally devided between them, to my daughter Susan Robason<\/strong> one dollar,\u00a0and to my youngest son Neely Ragan<\/strong> I give and bequeath all the remainder of\u00a0the property that I possess both personal and real, of every character and\u00a0description to have, hold and control as he may see cause to do with , any\u00a0and all such property as I may be possessed of at my death.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have let my son Andrew Ragan<\/strong> have fifty dollars in cash which I relinquish\u00a0in consideration of his having built two chimneys , one to my dwelling house\u00a0, the other to my kitchen. I would further state there is a judgement on W.\u00a0A. Glenn’s<\/strong> docket in my favor and against Allen Adcock<\/strong>, which with the above\u00a0mentioned property shall also go into the hands of my son Neely in order to\u00a0assist in the payment of my burial expenses , and further compensate him for\u00a0the support he has given me , and the care he has taken of me for the last\u00a0twenty five years. I also desire that my grandson John T. Robason<\/strong> shall not\u00a0be allowed a house on the\u00a0above mentioned realty. I hereby appoint my son Neely Ragan as my executor\u00a0and that he shall not be required to give hand as such.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I declare this to be my last will and testimony whereunto I set my hand\u00a0calling on W. M. Andrew<\/strong> and D. A. Johnson<\/strong> for witnesses and signing in their\u00a0presence, this the eighth day of August , Eighteen Hundred and Ninety Nine.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nancy (her x mark) Ragan<\/span>
\n Witnesses,<\/span>
\n W. M. Andrew , Juror?<\/span>
\n D. A. Johnson , Juror?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nancy Ragan’s Will , admitted to Probate Oct 9, 1905 I Nancy Ragan being of mature years, of sound mind , and considering the\u00a0frailty of life and the certainty of death, do make and publish this as my\u00a0last will and …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[270],"tags":[287,288,82,178,205,286],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wills","tag-adcock","tag-andrew","tag-brown","tag-johnson","tag-ragan","tag-robaon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/maury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/maury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/maury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/maury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/maury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/maury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/maury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/maury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/maury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/maury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}