JEFFERSON COUNTY, GA -WILLS Mrs. Mary Whigham Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: "Brian Nichols" Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/jefferson.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm WILL OF MRS. MARY WHIGHAM ***** WILL OF MRS. MARY WHIGHAM (Will Book A, page 374) MADE September 17,1852 PROBATED January 9, 1854 State of Georgia: County of Jefferson} In the name of God Amen. I Mary Whigham widow of William Whigham late of said county & state Deceased being advanced in life and calling to mind the certainty of Death do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following to wit. First, I commend my Soul to God who gave it & I trust has redeemed it & my Body to its Mother Earth to be buried plainly and decently in the family burying Ground and what few Goods chattes and effects with which I am Blessed by a kind Providence I dispose of as follows: Item Second - To my Daughter Margaret G. Fleming I leave one Feather Bed to be delivered to her after my Death by my Executor & Trustee hereafter named - Item Third - To my Son William P. Whigham I leave in special trust for the use and benefit of My Daughter Asenth E.Arrington wife of Abner Arrington and her Children who at present reside with, and take care of me after my Death my negro Woman named Darcus & any issue of said Woman Darcus that may be, for the special use and benefit of my said Daughter Asenith E. and children and also whatever Household and Kitchen furniture, Stock of Cattle and hogs, plantation tools etc. that may be in my possession at my Death with the exception of the feather bed left my Daughter Margaret G. Fleming. Fourthly. For the purpose of carrying this my said last Will and Testament into complete effect I hereby constitute and appoint my son William P. Whigham Executor as well as trustee for said Purposes. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this Seventeenth day of September 1852. Mary Whigham Signed sealed and acknowledged and declared by said Testator before us subscribing witnesses the date above mentioned to be and contain her last Will and Testament. Enoch Farmer William J. Whigham Robert J. Lee his X mark Georgia: Jefferson County} Court of Ordinary, January Term 1854. Before me Nicholas Diehl Ordinary of said in open court personally came William P. Whigham Executor of the last will and testament of Mary Whigham late of said county deceased and produced before me the last will and testament of said Mary Whigham deceased and two of the witnesses of said will to wit: Enoch Farmer and Robert J. Lee who being duly sworn depose and say that they saw Mary Whigham the testatrix sign, seal, declare and publish the instrument now presented and hereto attached as her last will and testament, freely, voluntarily and of her own accord and without any compulsion or influence whatever at the time of the execution of the said will, said testatrix was of sound and disposing mind and memory, that deponent - together with William J. Whigham in presence of each other and of testatrix and at her request signed said Will as witness. Sworn to and subscribed before me this ninth day of January 1854 in open court; Nicholas Diehl, Ordinary.