Elbert County GaArchives Wills
William Teasley, 16 Jun 1824

************************************************
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:
Chandler Eavenson
http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00030.html#0007294

Wills
William Teasley, 16 Jun 1824

The following Will appears in Elbert Co., GA Will Book M, page 296:

"Georgia, Elbert Co.) In the name of God Amen. I, William Teasley
of the State and County aforesaid being very sick and weak, but, of a
perfect mind and memory thanks be given to God calling unto mine the
mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men
once to die, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament that
is to say Principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul
unto the hands of the almight God that gave it and my body I
recommend to the earth to be buried in a clean and Christian burial
at the discretion of my executors nothing doubting, but, at the
general resurrection I receive the same again by the mighty power of
God. And as touching such worldly estate herewith it has pleased God
to bless in this life I give and bequeath to Sarah, my dearly
beloved wife all the tract or tracts of land that adjoins where on
I now live(except apart that I give to John Horton, my son-in-law),
estimated at seven hundred and fifty acres be the same more or less during
her natural life and at his death to be equally divided
between my daughters Anna and Amelia. I further give unto Sarah my
wife my negroes, together with my stock of all kinds, household and
kitchen furniture and every article belonging to my plantation freely
to be enjoyed by her during her natural life and at her death to be
divided amongst my children equal.

"I give to John Horton in his wife Winney's right part of the tract
of land mentioned above Inclosed in the following boundaries (viz)
Beginning at the south east corner of the old field eastward of said
Horton's plantation running parrallel with the branch to the south
to the line of said hence west along said line to the branch then go
down siad branch to the old field fence, thence along said fence to
the ____ ___ corner lot. The quantity of land be great or small, I
further give unto the said Horton a lot of land in Wilkinson County
State aforesaid, I give to Thomas Horton in the right of his wife
Elizabeth, one lot or tract of land on the county of Houston State
aforesaid.

"I give unto the heirs of Levi Teasley, dec., one lot of land granted
to Julian Nail in the sixth district originally Baldwin County now
the county of Jones. I give to Thomas Jefferson Teasley, three
hundred dollars of the money I have on hand. The remainder of my
property both real and personally that has not been mentioned, I wish
to be equally divided amongst my children and I do hereby appoint
Thomas Horton and Will Lunsford, executors of my estate of this my
Last Will and Testament and I do hereby utterly disalow, revoke and
disanule all and every other former testaments Wills, legacees,
bequests and executors by me in any wise before named willed and bequeathed
radifying and confirming this and no other to be my last
Will and Testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and seal this sixteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and twenty four. Signed Sealed and Declared
by the said William Teasley as his Last Will and Testament in the
presence of us who in the presence of each other have hereunto
subscribed our names.
                                     William M. Teasley
James O. Landers
William Landers
Lauchlen McCurry"

The above Will was proved on 3 Jul 1824.

[Submitter's notes: Thomas Jefferson Teasley was the son of his
daughter Anna Teasley (1791-1857). Anna later married 28 Oct 1824
to Wesley C. Crisler and the family, except Thomas Jefferson
Teasley, moved to Alabama before settling in Hinds Co., Mississippi
where both died and are buried in Spring Ridge Cemetery.(Ref:
Teasley Magazine, May 1987, by Kyle D. Williams.) William's
daughter Amelia married on 28 Aug 1823 in Elbert Co. to William
Lunsford.]

Submitted by: Chandler Eavenson