Wills: Jeremiah Lumsden, 1826 Jasper Co, Ga

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LWT: Jeremiah Lumsden 
Jasper Co, Ga        Record: page 300-301
Date: 27 April 1826

In the name of God Amen.  I, Jeremiah Lumsden, Sen of
the State of and County aforesaid (Jasper, Ga) being
low in health but of sound mind and memory and
knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die
and as touching worldly affairs, I do hereby make and
ordain this to be my Last Will and Testament. Item
first - I will my soul to God who gave it and that my
body be buried in a Christian like manner and all my
debts be paid.

Item 2nd.  I will to my beloved wife Elizabeth
Lumsden for her natural life time seventy acres of
land whereon I now live with all my plantation with
the house I now live in with all my other houses on
said plantation or premises with all my household
kitchen furniture and all of my stock that is not
otherwise appropriated, to wit, all my hogs, cattle,
sheep, and horses with all my farming tools, with all
of the present crop now on said premises.

Item 3rd.  I will that my son Jesse M. Lumsden have
seventy acres of land that he now has possession of -
and at the death of my wife Elizabeth that he have
the land willed to her also.  That he have one bed
and one cow and calf our of my present stock of
cattle also that he have fifty acres of land more or
less adjoining the land where I now live, also that
he pay for said land to each of the legatees twenty
dollars within one year after my death making in all
one hundred and eighty dollars, also that my daughter
Elender P. Lumsden do have one cow & calf out of my
said stock of cattle, with one bed with all the
furniture attached thereto with all the furniture
arising from her own labor - now in my possession
with her trunk that she now has, also that she have
one sorrel mare known by the name of Hanah to her own
exclusive use and benefit.

Item 4th - At  the death of my wife, I will that all
the rest of my estate be sold and equally divided
among my children to wit, Elizabeth Thompson, wife of
John Thompson, James Duncan, Joseph Swan, Samuel
Thompson, Oliver Martin, John E. Hodge, Elender P.
Lumsden, Jeremiah C. Lumsden and Jesse M. Lumsden,
with the exception of one dollar to each of the below
named persons, to wit: John Whatley, Obediah B.
Parrot, George W. Parrott, Elizabeth A. J. Phillips,
Nancy S. Newberry, Sally M. Shears and Henry B.
Parrott.

Item 5th.  I will that John Lumsden lawful heirs
receive an equal portion with the rest of the
children to be divided amongst them.

Item 6th.  I will that my son Jeremiah C. Lumsden and
Jesse M. Lumsden be and I appoint them my executor to
carry into effect this my Last Will and Testament.

Signed sealed and acknowledged this 27th day of April 1826. 
In the presence of:
Elijah Dodson
James Willson
Thomas Hester
Pleasant P Coleman
Signed
Signed 
Jeremiah Lumsden 
27 April 1826


Elijah Dodson recorded the will March 21, 1827


Transcribed by Ron Jones of Orlando, Florida in December, 2001
Minor corrections made by Paul A. Tucker, Richardson, Texas, Dec 2001