HARALSON COUNTY, GA - WILLS -Smith Strickler Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: lrober@plantationcable.net E. Robertson Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/haralson.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm WILL BOOK A, PAGE 250 WILL OF SMITH STRICKLER STATE OF GEORGIA HARALSON COUNTY I, Smith Strickler, of said State and County being of sound and disposing mind and memory do make this last will and testament hereby revoking all other wills heretofore made by me. Item 1. I wish my executors as soon as possible after my death, to pay my debts. Item 2. I give to JESSIE SHANE of Carlton, Penn. $1.00 one dollars. Item 3. I give HENRIETTA SHANE of Wautauga, Tenn, $1.00 one dollar Item 4. I give GERTIE STANTON STRICKLER, ETHEL MAY STRICKLER, EARL ALMONT STRICKLER, and FLORENCE MAY STRICKLER one dollar each. Item 5. I give to my wife MARY R. STRICKLER, all of my property both real and personal of which I die possessed after paying my debts and funeral expenses and the erection of a suitable monument on my burial lot in the cemetery at Tallapoosa, GA. Upon the condition that my said present wife MARY R. STRICKLER shall give to me proper care and nursing in my declining days. Should the said MARY R. STRICKLER fail to give me proper care and nursing, then I direct my executors to sell my propertyu, and use all of the same not disposed of by Items 2, 3, and 4, of this in erecting a monument on my said burial lot, and for beautifying said lot and keeping it in good condition. Item 6. I appoint M. J. HEAD executor of this my last will to act without bond or appraisement or return. In testimony whereof, I have hereto set my hand this12th day of August 1911. SMITH STRICKLER Witnesses: J. E. HUGHIE H. W. GILL M. J. HEAD Probated in common form September 12, 1913 and proceedings recorded on First Monday minutes of the Court of Ordinary, Book 3, Pages158 Will filed in Office for Probate September 12th, 1913 W. T. EAVES, ORDINARY