Butts-Henry County GaArchives Wills.....Maddox, David May 23, 1896 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Rhonda Flynn rhondaflynn3@gmail.com November 1, 2013, 8:41 am Source: Butts County, Ga, Wills Volume A; Pages 324 & 325 Written: May 23, 1896 Recorded: May 23, 1896 Will of David Maddox 1896 Butts County, GA Wills Volume A (1850-1896) Pages 324 & 325 Georgia, Butts County: Last Will of David Maddox of said County. Item 1st: Intending this to be my last will. I hereby revoke all will s heretofore made by me. Item 2nd: I wish my executors as soon as possible after my death to pay my debts. Item 3rd: I give to my beloved wife Christiana Maddox the plantation whereon I now live containing two hundred acres more or less for and during her natural life with one cow and provisions for one year and such household and kitchen furniture as she may select the property herein willed to be in lieu of dower. Item 4th: After the death of my said wife the land mentioned in Item 3rd of this my will to be equally divided share and share alike amongst my three daughters to wit: Indiana Maddox, Adda Nolen and her bodily heirs and Emily V. Pope one share only to said Adda Nolen. Item 5. I give to my sons Charles Maddox, Francis M. Maddox and David A. Maddox my _______ (illegible) lot of land containing two hundred acres more or less share and share alike with all rights and appurtenance of thereto belonging. Item 6th: I give and to my granddaughter N.V. Maddox the daughter of my deceased son William N. Maddox the sum of twenty five dollars to my daughter Fannie Holloway twenty five dollars. Item 7th: I do hereby appoint Charles Maddox and Francis M. Maddox executors to this my will having full confidence in them that they will carry my will out. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand this 23 day of May 1896. His David x Maddox Mark Signed and published by David Maddox as his last will and testament in our presence as witnesses thereto by his request this the 23 day of May 1896 we signing as witnesses in his presence. O.S. Maddox J.M. L. Mayo B.L. Deason File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/butts/wills/maddox927wl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb