Glynn County GaArchives Wills.....MERRITT, Madge Burns December 24, 1929 ************************************************ 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, 3:13 am Source: Will Book H Pg. 272; Glynn Co., Georgia Probate Court Written: December 24, 1929 Georgia, Glynn County: I, Madge Burns Merritt, being of sound and disposing mind and memory, do make and declare this instrument to be my last will and testament. I wish and direct that my Executors hereinafter named shall pay all my just debts as soon as possible after my death. I wish and direct that all my books be given to the Brunswick Public Library. I wish and direct that my body be placed in Frederica Cemetery at Christ Church on St. Simons Island, Georgia, and that a simple but substantial marker be placed over my grave with the following inscription: “Madge Burns Merritt (date of birth and date of death) For God and Home and Native Land”. I wish and direct that my dear sister, Helen Burns Hanford, of Leesburg, Florida, shall receive in full all my property, both real and personal, of which I may die possessed, except the bequest named in the following paragraph. If at the time of my death my estate is of sufficient value that in the opinion of my Executors it will bring to my sister a reasonable amount, then and in that event, I wish and direct that my Executors establish a loan scholarship of five hundred dollars ($500.00), to be known as the Madge Burns Merritt Scholarship, and to be administered by the Board of Education of Glynn County; this scholarship to be available to the country girls of Glynn County who have completed satisfactorily the high school training in Glynn Academy, and have graduated therefrom, and who are desirous of pursuing a higher education and wish to specialize in Home Economics. I wish, however, to leave the matter of establishing this scholarship or not establishing it entirely in the hands of my Executors hereinafter named. They are also to work out the details of the agreement by which the fund is to be administered. I wish and direct that my two friends, Margaret Davis Cate and Alfred O. Townsend, shall be and act as the Executors of this my last will and testament and shall be relieved of giving bond or making any returns. I wish to leave the matter entirely in their hands as to whether they shall sell some part or my property to satisfy my debts or to establish the loan scholarship above referred to, or they may sell it all and deliver to my sister the cash money instead of the property as she and they may wish. Any property that is to be sold may be sold at public or private sale as my Executors may deem best. Witness my hand and seal on this the 24th day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine. Madge B. Merritt Signed, sealed, and delivered in the presence of: Margaret Davis Cate Butler Yopp A.O. Townsend Additional Comments: More Glynn County Genealogy & History can be found at File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/glynn/wills/merritt761gwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.4 Kb