HARALSON COUNTY, GA - WILLS -G. R. Hamilton

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WILL BOOK A, PAGE 192-193  WILL OF G. R. HAMILTON
STATE OF GEORGIA
HARALSON COUNTY   

I, G. R. Hamilton, of said State and County, being
of disposing mind and memory make this will and
testament and hereby revoking any or all other will
or wills heretofore made by me

First Item....I direct that all my just debts be
paid if there be any outstanding at the time of my
death.

Second Item....I direc that I have a decent burial
and that my last resting place be marked with
substantial monument, suitable to my circumstances
in life.

Third item....I give and bequeath to the trustees of
Hamilton College, an Institution of learning,
located in Bremen, Ga. In said county, and their
successors in office my stock or interest in the
Georgia Trust company, which amounts to five hundred
dollars ($500.00) and I hereby direc that said
trustees do not use any part of the principal of
said $500.00 till the interest thereon shall amount
to a sum equal to said principal, but said Trustees
are hereby authorized to appropriate the interest as
shall become due from time to time as they may deem
necessary to the best interest of said College and
when the interest shall amount to said sum of
$500.00 then Trustees shall be at liberty to use the
principal and expend the same in the advancement and
betterment of said college.

Fourth item...I give bequeath and devise to the
deacons , or local managers of the Presbyterian
Church at Bremen, Ga. And their successors in office
my town lot on the corner of Gordon and Bryan
Streets, in the town of Bremen, in said count, said
lot being bounded on the east by Gordon St., on the
North by Bryan St., on the west by S. S. Copelands
property and on the south by property of W. W.
Edwards; the above de? Property is hereby given for
church purposes and none other. Fifth item....After
the above and foregoing four items have been fully
complied with and carried out as therein specified,
I give, bequeath and devise the remainder of my
property, both real and personally, choses in
action, money or whatever else I may be seized of at
the time of my death to the following named persons:

To the lawful heirs of JANE JORDAN, DECEASED, one
undivided one sixth interest in said property: to
Nancy Hall and her lawful heirs one undivided one
sixth interest in said property; To JOHN L. HAMILTON
and his lawful heirs (except ZELLARS B.  HAMILTON) ,
one undivided one sixth interest in said property.
To WILLIAM HAMILTON and his lawful heirs one
undivided one sixth interest in said property.  To
MARGERET KNIGHT and her lawful heirs one undivided
one sixth interest in said property.  To LUCINDA O.
MCPHERSON and her lawful heirs, one undivided one
sixth interest in said property.  It is my purpose
that the above named parties who are my brothers and
sisters and their lawful heirs, shall share equally
in the distribution of my estate without special
favors to either, after first the four items have
been carried out as therein specified.

Sixth Item.  I hereby constitute and appoiNT JAMES
BEALL Esq. Executor of this my last will and
testament.

Seventy Item.  It is my purpose to entirely leave Z.
B. HAMILTON out of this my last will and that he be
not allowed to participate in the distribution of my
estate for the reason that said Z. B. HAMILTON
failed and refused to occupy, maintain and protect
my interest as I feel that it was his duty to do.

This 4th day of Aug. 1903   G. R. HAMILTON
Witnesses: John H. Shelnutt
  H. D. Reid
  J. G. Copeland