DAWSON - FULTON COUNTY, GA - WILLS Rodophus Berry McGehee
 
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           State of Georgia Fulton County 
                                     In the name of God  Amen 
I, Rodophus Berry McGehee of the County of Dawson and State of
Georgia , being of sound and disposing mind and memory, and
bearing in mind the uncertainly of life and the certainty of
death, do make and publish this my last Will and Testament,
hereby revoking any and all testaments that my heretofore have
been made by me. 

Item 1st     I direct that my just debts if I leave any at my
death, be first paid out of the proceeds of my estate. 

Item 2nd    After the payment of my debts as aforesaid I devise
and bequeath to my wife, Luella F. McGehee, should she survives
me, all of the property that I may leave at my  death, both
real, personal and mixed, to have and to hold said property to
my said wife for and during the term of her natural life, and
after her death to be disposed of as directed in the next item
of this will. 

Item 3rd    After the death of my said wife, I direct that all
of my said property be equally divided among all the then
living children of the five following persons to wit 

T.W. Bates, late of Muscogee County, State of Georgia, now
deceased; Mrs. Alice Denton late of Fulton County, State of
Georgia, now deceased, C. D. Martin, of Dekalb County, Georgia;
George C. Bates of the State of Texas and Mrs. Eugie Tate,born
Eugie Bates of Muscogee County, Georgia. By the children of
Alice Denton is meant the children of her body, and not the
children of her husband by any other wife. It is my will  that
my said property be divided among the living children of the
aforesaid 5 persons upon a per capita and not upon a per
stripes bases and that the distribution is to be made among
those of the said children who are in life at the time of the
death of my said wife. The term "Children" is not hence to be
constrained as embracing the descendants of children. In the
event that I should outlive my said wife, I direct that, at my
death,  all of my said property be distributed in the same
manner and upon the same basis as already forein provided for
said distribution after the death of my said wife, in the event
of her surviving me; that is to say, in the I survive my wife,
said property at my death is to be divided equally among  the
then surviving immediate children of the 5 persons herein above
named.

Item 4th     I nominate, constitute and appoint, C.D. Martin as
execution of this will, and direct that he be relieved from the
necessity of filing any inventory or appraisement of making any
returns in any court. 

Witness my hand and seal this 21st day of May 1913. 

                                          Rodolphus Burian McGehee     {Seal} 
Signed, Sealed, declared and published by Rodolphus Berryman
McGehee, as his last Will and Testament in the presence of us
the subscribers hereto, who sign our names hereto as witnesses
in his presence at at his instance and request, he signing in
our presence and we signing in his presence and in the presence
of one another. 
                                                          A. L. Blanton 
                                                          I. S. Boinest 
                                                          Ben J Conyers 

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Source 
Dawson County- State of Georgia 
  Georgia Court of Ordinary 
     Wills  1876-1959 
FHL US/CAN  Film  288158 

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