HARALSON COUNTY, GA - WILLS - Charles Lewin MCPherson
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Will BOOK A, PAGE 215-218                        

WILL OF CHARLES LEWIN MCPHERSON, DECEASED
STATE OF GEORGIA
HARALSON COUNTY                   

In the name of God, AMEN
I, Charles LEWIN MCPHERSON, of said State and County
being of sound and disposing mind and memory and
knowing that it is appointed unto all men once to
die, and desiring to dispose of all the worldly
goods with which a kind providence has blessed me do
hereby make, declare and publish this as my last
Will and Testament hereby revoking all other wills
at anytime heretofore made by me.

1.            I commend my body to the dust and my
spirit to the God who gave it.  I desire that my
body be given a Christial burial and that my last
resting place in this world be marked with a
suitable monument to be paid for out of my estate,
if solvent.

2.            I will that all my just debts be paid
as soon after my death as is consistent with the
condition of my estate and that all debts due my
estate be collected as speedily as possible.

3.            I will and direct that all my
property, both real and personal be divided equally,
or as prescribed by law, among the heirs at law to
my estate, as soon after my death as is consistent
with the best interest of said estate and the fully
provisions for the support and care of my beloved
wife LUCINDA OREGAN MCPHERSON.

4.            I specially empower my executors
hereinafter named to execute re-conveyance of any
titles held by me at the time of my death as
security, or in any trust capacity upon the payment
of the amount due my estate, and to execute releases
of liens or encumbrances held by my estate against
any person or property without any order from any
court and as fully as I might have done if living

5.            I specially relieve my said executors
from making an inventory or having an appraisement
made of the assets of my estate, specially relieve
my said executors from the necessity of making
annual returns, final returns or any reports on
applications to the courts in the managements of my
estate, leaving it optional with said executors to
have recorded at the expense of said estate final
return of all vouchers for money paid out on account
of said estate for the better protection of said
executors.

6.            I hereby specially empower my said
executors to sell either at public or private sale,
as may be most advantageous to my said estate any
and all property, both real and personal, chooses in
action, or of whatever nature said assets may be,
all without any order from any court, requesting
that the refusal of purchasing at the highest price
offered by others than my said heirs at law, be
afforded to my said executors to my said heirs at
law.

7.            In the event of the death of any of my
said heirs at law before the distribution of the
assets of my said assets such deceased heir at law,
leaving descendant who are minor or otherwise in
capable of receiving for themselves distribution
from my said estate, there shall be no delay in
marshaling the assets of my estate and the
distribution to the others of my heirs at law of
their share in my said estate, the share for which
there is no person authorized to receive to be held
in the hands of my executors as required by law
until proper representatives are provided to give
valid receipts to my said executors for such shares.

8.            I hereby constitute and appoint my
sons A. P. MCPHERSON and L. D. MCPHERSON THE
executors of this my last will and testament

Witness my hand and seal this the 13th day of
November 1907.               C. L. MCPHERSON

The foregoing pages 1 & 2 each identified by the signature of the testator, CHARLES LEWIN MCPHERSON 
(C. L. MCPHERSON) declared by said testator to contain his true last will and testament was signed, sealed , declared and published, etc., etc.
Witnesses:    WALTER MATTHEWS
                        C. B. WEATHERLY
                        E. S. GRIFFITH

                                                 Codicil
              “To be buried in the Family Burial ground also known as the ‘HA MILTON GROVE YARD” on the west side of a plantation road in Land Lot No.163 in the seventh district to contain one fourth acre square , the center of which is to be the grave of MRS. MARGARET REID HAMILTON, deceased

              The object of this Codicil only is to preserve to the testator and his descendants the right as against all subsequent Owners of the fee simple or any other rights in said land to a burying ground and the preservation and maintenance of a cemetery as now or hereafter laid out in the same forever together with a right of way across said lot of land No. 163 to public road in said county 

Whitnessed whereof - C. L. MCPHERSON , June 8, 1908
Witnesses:    J. T. Shelnutt
              C. F. Cobb
              J. J. Mangham