Glynn County GaArchives Wills.....DAVIDSON, David February 14, 1883 ************************************************ 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: Amy Hedrick http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00013.html#0003209 March 13, 2009, 2:55 am Source: Will Book G Pgs. 465-467; Glynn Co., Georgia Probate Court Written: February 14, 1883 Recorded: August 6, 1884 State of Georgia} County of Glynn} In the name of God Amen: I David Davidson of the county and state aforesaid knowing the uncertainty of life and being of sound mind and disposing memory do make and publish this my last will and testament as to the disposition of my property after my death. Item 1st: I desire that my body should be decently buried and the expenses of said burial to be first paid out of my estate. Item 2nd: I will and bequeath to my friend Mrs. Harriet Turner of the county and state aforesaid who now resides in the city of Brunswick all my household and kitchen furniture that I now posses or that I may be possessed of at the time of my death and in ??? thereto the sum of five hundred dollars in cash to be realized by the sale of such real property as I may be seized and possessed of at the time of my death and direct said real property to be sold for the purpose of paying to her said five hundred dollars unless my two sons hereinafter named will pay to the said Mrs. Harriet Turner the sum of five hundred dollars in cash in which last event said property may be sold or not as they may desire. Item 3rd: While I intend to give the aforesaid household and kitchen furniture and the aforesaid five hundred dollars in cash (bequeathed in the second item of this will) absolutely and not as a life estate to the said Mrs. Harriet Turner, yet in the event she should die before myself I then desire that my two sons shall take said property share and share alike. Item 4th: All other property that I own or may own at the time of my death I give and bequeath to my two sons David Marion Davidson and Joseph Warren Davidson forever in fee simple share and share alike. Item 5th: I further will and bequeath my love and best wishes to my aforesaid two sons above named David Warren Davidson and Joseph Warren Davidson for their success and prosperity in this life. Item 6th: I hereby constitute and appoint as the sole Executor of this my last will and testament my friend Americus V. Putnam of the city of Brunswick to carry out the items of this my last will and testament dated this the 14th day of February anno domini one thousand eight hundred and eighty three and signed at Brunswick in the county and state aforesaid in the presence of the undersigned witnesses. David Davidson {LS} Signed declared and published by D. Davidson as his last will and testament in the presence of us the subscribed, who subscribed our names hereto as witnesses at the instance and request of said testator in his presence and in the presence of each other, he signing in our presence and we signing in his presence and in the presence of each witness whose name appears hereto. F.H. Harris {LS} Ira E. Smith {LS} W.W. Watkins {LS} State of Georgia} County of Glynn} In person appeared before the undersigned W.W. Watkins who on being duly sworn deposeth and says that he as well as F.H. Harris and Ira E. Smith saw the D. Davidson named in the will hereto attached sign and publish said will as his last will and testament that he the said W.W. Watkins subsicrbed the same as a witness thereto at the special instance and request of the said D. Davidson and in his presence as did also F.H. Harris and Ira E. Smith, that the said D. Davidson signed the same freely and voluntarily and was at the time of such signing of sound and disposing mind and memory. W.W. Watkins Sworn to and subscribed before me this July 10th 1884, Edgar C.P. Dart Ordinary G.C. Ga. State of Georgia} Glynn County} I Americus V. Putnam do solemnly swear that the attached writing contains the last will and testament of D. Davidson late of said county now deceased, so far as I know or believe and that I shall well and truly execute the same in accordance with the laws of said state so help me God. Americus V. Putnam Sworn to and subscribed before me this July 10th 1884, Edgar C.P. Dart Ordinary G.C. Ga. Recorded Aug. 6th 1884, Edgar C.P. Dart Ordinary. Additional Comments: More Glynn County Genealogy & History can be found at File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/glynn/wills/davidson749gwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.8 Kb