Clarke County  Georgia Walter B. Hill Will

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Last Will and Testament of Walter B. Hill, Clarke County,
GA Court of Ordinary Will Book E (1885-1911), Pg. 368.


Georgia-Clarke County.}


I Walter B. Hill do execute this my last will. Item 1st  
It is my desire that all my just debts be paid as soon as
practicable after my death.


Item 2nd        I desire and bequeath all the property
real and personal that I may own at the time of my death
to my wife Sallie B. Hill for and during her life, that
at her death to the children of our present marriage: the
children of any deceased child to take that share of the
parent per _____: and I hereby appoint my wife as trustee
of the children and ________of children, giving her the
power to sell and dispose of any of said property for
purposes of reinvestment at public or private sale in her
discretion and without any order of Court.


Item 3rd        I now have the following Life Insurances:
(a) Policy in the Aetna Life Insurance Company No: 95376:
This policy I assigned October 20, 1893, to my wife and
children:  Amt. $5,000.00 (b) Paid up policy in Equitable
Life Assurance Company No. 137962 payable to my wife and
surviving children.  Amt. $9118.00 (c) Policy in the
Royal Arcanum. No. 6980 payable to my wife and children.
Amt. $3,000.00.


I hereby appoint my wife guardian of my children who may
be minors, to receive any portion of the proceeds of said
policies coming to such children.  And, she is hereby
relieved from giving bond.  I also appoint my wife
Executrix of this will with power of sale at public or
private sale in her discretion.  In testimony whereof I
have hereto set my hand and seal to this my will and
publish the same as my last will and testament, in the
presence of the witnesses whose names are undersigned.
This  the 3rd day of October 1904. 
Walter B. Hill


Signed, Sealed, Published and Declared by the above named
Walter B. Hill as his last will and testament in the
presence of us, this Third day of October 1904-who at his
request and in his presence hereby signed our names as
subscribing witnesses; he first signing in our presence
and we then signing in his presence and in the presence
of each other. 
E. R. Hodgson (sig) 
A. E. Griffith (sig)
B. T. L. Mitchell (sig)


--State of Georgia, County of Clarke-Before me came T. L.
Mitchell named as a witness to the within writing
purporting to be Walter B. Hill's last will and being
duly sworn, saith that he with E. R. Hodgson and A. E.
Griffith sat the request of said Walter B. Hill and in
his presence, and in presence of each other, did attest
as witnesses the within writing as Walter B. Hill's will:
that the same was signed and published by said Walter B.
Hill in their presence as his last will: that he was at
the time of said attestation and signing by him of sound
and disposing mind and memory: that he executed the
within paper voluntarily. 

T. L. Mitchell (sig) 

Sworn to &
subscribed before me This 24 day of January 1906}
 S. B.
Wingfield, Ordinary Clarke Court of Ordinary.  

January
Term 1906-The above Petition of Mrs. Sallie B. Hill
nominated Executrix of this last alleged will of Walter
B. Hill duly filed having been supported by proper proof
of T. L. Mitchell, a witness to said will, that witnesses
E. R. Hodgson and A. E. Griffith saw him sign and heard
him publish the alleged will as his own last will, that
he attested the same as a witness at his request and in
his presence with E. R. Hodgson and A. E. Griffith so
attesting also at his request: that said Walter B. Hill
was at the time of said signing and attestation of sound
and disposing mind and memory, and did in the execution
of said will act freely and voluntarily, it is Ordered
that the same be duly recorded; having been duly proved
in Common Form; and that Letters Testamentary issue to
her upon her taking the usual Oath of Office-S. B.
Wingfield, Ordinary. (sig)


-Oath-Georgia, Clarke County}  

I do solemnly swear that
the writing contains the last will of the within named
Walter B. Hill, deceased, so far as I know or believe,
and that I will well and truly execute the same in
accordance with the laws of this State.  So help me God.

Sallie B. Hill (sig) 

Sworn to & subscribed before me.
This 24 day of January 1906. T. L. Mitchell, Notary
Public Clarke Co., GA



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