Glynn County GaArchives Wills.....Scarlett, Francis M. 1859 ************************************************ 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 June 4, 2005, 4:56 pm Source: Will Book Written: 1859 State of Georgia Glynn County In the name of God Amen. I Francis M. Scarlett of the state and county aforesaid being of sound and disposing mind and memory thanks be to God for the same but well knowing the uncertainty of life. Do make and publish this my last will and testament hereby revoking and making null and void all and every other will or wills by me at any time heretofore made. First I commit my body to the earth to be decently interred by my executer hereinafter named and my soul I command to the God who gave it. Second It is my will and desire that my funeral expenses and just debts be paid by my executor hereinafter named as once as I do not desire to delay my creditors in securing what may be due them. Third I will and desire that all my my Estate real and personal of whatever nature or kind that I may die sign? of to be kept together by my Executor herein after named for and during the life of my beloved wife Ann Scarlett and that she is to have the use and control of the process of the same, and to have the careful possession of the same for and during her life. Fourth I will and bequeath to my younger son George Stanton Scarlett as a special bequest and in no wise to impair or affect his receiving an equal part of my Estate hereinafter to be divided. A negro boy named Robert and five hundred acres of land including the homestead on which I now reside and my family graveyard and planting land. And the house and kitchen furniture and stock that may be on it as his mothers death. This divide is not to to take effect until after the death of his mother Ann Scarlett. and the property herein divided in this the fourth item is to be controlled by his mother as in the third item of this my will. Fifth Subject to the foregoing bequests and divide I give devise and bequeath onto Francis D. Scarlett in trust for Meta T. Long daughter of my deceased daughter Theodosia Long one sixth part of the remainder of my Estate both real and personal. To have and to hold the same in trust for the sole and separate use benefits belong and maintained of my granddaughter Meta T. Long but in case that my said granddaughter should depart this life before attaining the age of twenty one years unmarried and without having any lawful issue living at the time of her death. Thus and in that case the property him? bequeathed and divided to the said Francis D. Scarlett in trust for my said granddaughter is to return to my estate and be awarded equally divided amongst my children or their representatives. Sixth All the rest residue and remainder of my estate real personal and mixed of whatever nature and kind whatsoever situate subject to the forgoing devises bequests and trusts I give devise and bequeath in manner following to my beloved son Francis D. Scarlett one undivided sixth part to his heirs un assigns forever. To my beloved son David C. Scarlett one undivided sixth part thereof to him and his heirs and assigns forever. To my grandaughters Jean A. King and Frances Ann Parland daughters of my daughter Mary Ann McKay one sixth part of my estate undivided. The said Jean A. King and Frances A. Parland only to receive together one sixth part to them and their heirs forever. To my beloved son John P. Scarlett one undivided sixth part thereof to him and his heirs forever. To my beloved son George S. Scarlett one undivided sixth part thereof to him and his heirs forever. And it is my will that no part of my property be divided until after the death of my beloved wife. She to have the income and control arising from it during her life. And it is my intention to give to her a life estate in all my property left by me at my death. Seventh This my will desire and bequest that all the negro property now loand to my sons David C. Scarlett and John P. Scarlett be returned into my my estate and farm a portion of the same and be subject to a general division. Also the negroes given to my daughter Theodosia and now represented in her daughter Meta T. Long under a trust and to Frances D. Scarlett be deducted from her share at the time of the division of my estate. So that my said granddaughter Meta T. Long is only o have one sixth of my estate left subject to a division. As it is my intention that all of my children are to share equal in that portion of my estate not specially willed and bequeathed. Lastly I do hereby nominate and appoint my beloved son Francis D. Scarlett executor and my beloved wife Ann Scarlett Executrix of this my last will and testament. And my said son Francis D. Scarlett trustee of the trusts contained in said will. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my name and seal this 7 day of December Eighteen hundred and fifty nine. Frances M. Scarlett In presence of B.M. Cargyle Henry D. Holland Henry W. Piles Additional Comments: Amy Hedrick OR Glynn County Genealogy & History Website OR File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/glynn/wills/scarlett297gwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 5.7 Kb