Elbert County GaArchives Wills.....Crawford, John November 12, 1814
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Source: Will Book  A  1835-1860 Pages 186 & 187
Written: November 12, 1814
Recorded: May 1, 1815

Will of John Crawford
Will Book A 1835-1860 
Pages 186 & 187
Elbert County, Georgia


Page 186

Will of John Crawford  Dec’d

In the name of god Amen  I John Crawford being in common health
& of Sound and Disposing Mind & Memory Calling to Mind the mortality of all
Flesh & Whenever it may Please God to call me home I yield My Soul to him that
gave it and my Body to the Earth to buried at the discretion of my Executors.
Item 1st   I lend to my beloved Wife Henrietta all my Estate both Real and
Personal during her Natural life that I now have in possession for the Support
and the Raising & Schooling My Children on.
Item 2nd   I Will tha all My that part of Property that may fall to Me from My
Mother Lucy Crawford Estate at her death Shall also be lent to my wife aforesaid
during the time she remains My widdow  but if in case she should marry again, My
will is that all P. Property from my Mother afforesaid, shall Immediately be
taken out of her possession by My Executor and applied to the only use of My
Children (to wit) Burton Earle, Leroy, & William Haley--sons of mine, and that
When ever they, or either of them Shall come of age they Shall then Receive an
Equal part of Such Estate, and at the death of My Wife, I devise all My Estate
both Real and Personal to be equally Divided between My said Children as above---
Lastly I constitute, appoint and Ordain John Craft, My True and lawfull Executor
to this My last Will and Testament Revoking  all wills heretofore by me Made
declaring this and Only This to be My last Will & testament, in Evidence whereof
I have hereunto Set My hand and affixed My Seal this twelfth day of November in
the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight hundred & Fourteen----
						John Crawford       (seal)

In present of
J. Johnston
Moses Haynes Sen

Georgia      ]   Personally appeared in open Court John Johnston & 
Elbert County]   Moses Haynes Sen and after being duly sworn saith

Page 187

That they Saw the Testator John Crawford Sigh Seal and
Acknowledged the above to be his Last Will and Testament and
That the Said Testator Was of Sound and disposing Mind and 
Memory at the time of Executing the Same and that they and 
Each of them Subscribed their Names as Witnesses To the Same in 
the presence of the Testator and at his Request

Sworn in Open               ]				J. Johnston 
Court the 1st May 1815  ]				Moses Haynes  Sen.

Test. Job Weston  C.C.O.  Where upon it was ordered to be Recorded
John Craft qualified as Ex’r Letters  Testamentary & granted 
		Recorded the 6th June 1815     Job Weston    C.C.O.



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