Glynn County GaArchives Wills.....WILSON, John Aldham November 17, 1886 ************************************************ 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 January 3, 2008, 7:27 pm Source: Glynn Co., Georgia Probate Court; Will Book G Pgs. 488-491 Written: November 17, 1886 Recorded: September 7, 1887 State of Georgia County of Glynn In the Name of God Amen I, John Aldham Wilson formerly of Toronto, Canada but at present of said county of Glynn and State of Georgia where I expect to spend the remainder of my days on earth being of sound mind and disposing memory my physical force being unabated in the enjoyment of good health and the possessions of are the powers of my mind and body yet knowing it at this tenement of day is weak and is likely at any time dissolved do hereby make publish and declare this my last will and testament revoking all wills heretofore made by me. I desire to be buried according to the ritual of the Church of England and that my remains be laid away in the cemetery appertaining to the City of Brunswick, Georgia. I care not for an expensive funeral but leave the same entirely with my Executor to do as he shall please in this matter. I would however ask that my grave be marked by a plain marble slab and enclosed by a neat and durable iron railing. This will is intended to have effect on my property lying and being in the said County of Glynn only whatever other property I have elsewhere has been by me already satisfactorily arranged and disposed of and my Executor shall have nothing to do with any property under this will except the same shall be within the limits of said County of Glynn unless it is to collect a debt due me by a party residing out of said county, in which event my Executor has full power and authority to proceed to enforce the collection of the same. My watch and jewelry and any little personal articles which are valuable only for the memories associated with them, I desire packed up and sent to my Sister hereinafter named to hold upon the trusts hereinafter stated. All the rest of my property I wish sold as soon as possible and all my notes, accounts, rights, credits and choses in action collected in short. I desire my whole estate with the above mentioned exceptions converted into ready cash as soon as it can be done and to this end I authorize my Executor to compromise any claim or release the same or any part thereof to make sale of my property by private treaty or at public outcry to sell for cash or on time just as he shall in the exercise of a sound discretion deem for the best interests of my estate. It is my will that my executor shall as fast as he can pay off all my honest and just debts and when this is done I direct that he shall send whatever remains in his hands to my sister Mistress Martha Permen Miles of 45 Beverly Street, Toronto, Canada to whom I give and bequeath the same together with my watch and jewelry and other personal articles before mentioned as trustee and in trust nevertheless for my two sons Frederick William Wilson and John McNab Wilson and I hereby empower her the said Martha Permen Miles to hold and use said fund for such time and in such manner as she shall deem best for my said two sons. I simply request that it be applied to their good the manner and the time of the disposition thereof I leave entirely with her, she may expend it on them immediately or keep it until their majority and then give it to them if she thinks best may retain it still longer and until a later period and then give them control of it if she appears so do. If she retains control of said fund any considerable length of time she may put out the same or invest the same or make any other disposition hereof which she may deem for the advantage of said fund. It is my will that my Executor shall not as required by law make annual returns to the Court of Ordinary but shall unless he shall think or devise otherwise make only one return which shall be as follows to say, after all my effects, which are to be sold have been sold and all my notes, accounts, rights, credits and choses in action have been collected or [illegible] as worthless. All my debts paid off my estate wound up and the money ready to be sent to my said Sister as aforesaid, then my Executor shall make a full statement in writing of all of his actings and doings in the premises and the value of the estate when it came into his hands and shall submit the same to the ordinary of said county of Glynn who shall pass upon the same and make an estimate of his services rendered by my Executor and say what he shall receive as compensation for such services and the said ordinary shall endorse his said decision in writing upon the back of said statement and shall send a copy of said statement and decision to my said Sister for which he shall be paid out of my estate. And whatever sum said ordinary shall name as being proper compensation for my Executor that same shall my Executor retain for himself out of my estate. I do hereby appoint and constitute Stewart Johnson attorney at law of said County of Glynn and State of Georgia Executor of and to this my last will and testament and give him full power to execute all my desires herein set out and beg him to be faithful to the trust. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this seventeenth day of November 1886. John Aldham Wilson Signed and published by the said John Aldham Wilson as his last will and testament in our presence as witnesses [illegible] by his request this seventeenth day of November 1886 we signing as witnesses in his presence and in the presence of each other. Wm. F. Doerflinger E.T. Horman J.W. Collins Ed F. Herzog Stewart Johnson Georgia Glynn County, I Stewart Johnson do solemnly swear that the within writing contains the true last will of the within named deceased John Aldham Wilson as far as I know or believe and that I will well and truly execute the same in accordance with the laws of said State. So help me God. Stewart Johnson Sworn to and subscribed before me this September 6th 1887, Edgar C.P. Dart, Ordinary of said County. Recorded this September 7th 1887, E.C.P. Dart, Ordinary. Additional Comments: More Glynn County Genealogy & History can be found at www.glynngen.com or the sister site at www.rootsweb.com/~gaglynn/ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/glynn/wills/wilson667gwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 6.8 Kb