HARALSON COUNTY, GA - WILLS - S.L.S. McDaniel

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WILL BOOK A, PAGE 1 & W WILL OF S. L. S. MCDANIEL
STATE OF GEORGIA
HARALSON COUNTY

In the Name of God, amen! Knowing that I must
shortly depart this life, deem it right and proper
both as respects my family and myself that I should
make a disposition of the property with which a kind
providence blessed me. I therefore make this my last
will and testament.  

I direct that my body be buried in a decent
Christian like manner suitable to my circumstance
and condition in life.  I desire that all my just
debts be paid without delay by my Executor hereafter
named and appointed .


I give & bequeath & devise to my beloved friends a
bound boy William Jones half of lot of land East
half of (....) Box fifty-three (53)in the eighth
dist of originally Carroll County now Haralson also
lot of land fifty four being and lying in the same
dist. With all the rights members & apperatances to
said lot and a half of land I also give & bequeath
to my beloved friend William Jones the farming
utensils now on & belonging to the farm on said lot
& half of land and one cow & calf, two goats & all
of my household & kitchen furniture all without
limitation or reseived hereby constitute & appoint
ISUM L. SMITH, Executor of this my last will &
testament this 7th day of January 1865.
                                                                   (His mark) S. L. McDaniel
Signed, sealed, declared & published by S L S
McDaniel as his last will & testament in the of us
the undersgned who subsentice our names hereto in
the presents of said Testor at his special instance
& request & in the presents of each other this 7th
day of January 1865    
                                                                    W. J. Walton, JP
                                                                    J J Williams, JP                 
                                                                    Robert Crockett
                                                                    
State of Georgia, Haralson County
Before me James H. Williams, Ordinary in and for
said county personally came Ishan J. Smith, Executor
of the last will and testament of S L S McDaniel
deceased and the witnesses of said will towit J J
Williams, Joseph F. Clay, and Robert Crockett, which
witnesses being duly sworn upon and say that they
saw S L S  McDaniel the testator sign seal  declare
and publish the instrument now presented as his last
will and testament freely voluntarily and of his own
accord and without any  compulsion or influence
whatever that at the time of the Execution of said
will said testor was of sound and disposing mind and
memory that depondants signed said will as witnesses
in the presence of the testator and at his special
instance and request and in the presence of each
other Sworn to and Subscribed before me February
6th,  1865.       
                                                                 
J. J. Williams
James H. Williams, Ordinary                                        Joseph F. Clay
                                                                  Robert Crockett
Recorded this 23rd of November 1865 in Will Book Page 1 & 2     James U. Williams, Ordinary 
Haralson County Court of Ordinary February 1865

Personally appeared in open court Isham J. Smith who
being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was
appointed Executor by the last will and Testament of
S L S McDaniel late of Said County, deceased that
deponat has and does hereby renounce and refuse the
Executorship under said Will fully and intensly,
that he has not intermedled there in with any view
of defrauding the creditors legatees or others
concerned in said estate.
James H. Williams, Ordinary                                     Isham J. Smith
Recorded November 23, 1865
                                             James H. Williams, Ordinary
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