TITLE: Will of Benjamin Hudson - Hempstead County, Arkansas *************************************************************** Submitted by: Pattie Causey Date: 26 Feb 2004 Copyright: All rights reserved. USGENWEB ARCHIVES DISCLAIMER: In keeping with our policy of providing free Information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. ****************************************************************** "In the name of god amen I Benjamin Hudson of the county of Hempstead and Territory of Arkansas being very sick and weak in body but in my perfect mind and memory thanks be to god caling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing it is appointed for all men once to die I do ordain this my last will and testament that is to say first of of (repeated) I give and recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty god that givest and my body to the earth to be buried in a decent Christian burial at the discretion of my beloved wife, and as touching such worldly estate it has pleased god to bless me in this life I give devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form first I give and bequeath to my well beloved wife Patsy all my estate to have and enjoy the profit as long as she may live or in During her widowhood, whom I constitute make and ordain the sole executrix of this my last will and testament and singular my lands and tenements my stock goods & chattels of ev! ery kind by her freely to be possessed and enjoyed so long as she may live or in during her widowhood at the end of which time I give and bequeath to my beloved son and daughter Mahala and David my land with every advantage thereunto belonging freely to possess and their heirs forever it being the half of the south east quarter of the twenty seventh section and lying in the province? known by the name of the berdark? province? to be divided by an east and west line two lots fifty acres in the north end and thirty in the south with the thirty in the south end I give to Mahala and the fifty in the north end I give to David the rest of my property to be divided among the rest of my children that may remain to the above stated time and I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannul all and every other former testament wills legacies bequests and executors by me before mentioned willed and bequeathed or ratified and confirmed, this and no other to be my last will and testament,! in witness whereof I have set my hand and seal this twenty first day of December one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven Benjamin (his mark) Hudson (seal) signed in presence of us John Crannover? Diter Crannover " (probate 5 July 1830)