JONES  COUNTY  GA  WILL OF PITTS, Mary B. - 1887

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF MARY B. PITTS

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JONES COUNTY, GEORGIA, WILL RECORD E, PAGES 332-334

Georgia Jones County
     In the name of God Amen.

     I Mary B. Pitts of Jones County & Said State being of Sound mind and 
disposing memory & mind do make this my last will and testament hereby 
revoking any & all wills & testaments heretofore made and Executed by me 
whatsoever wherever the same may be found.

Item 1st. It is my will & desire that my body be decently & properly buried 
in the grave yard at Clinton Jones Co. Ga.

Item 2d. It is my wish that any & all the usual expenses incurred by reason 
of my death & the proper probate & record of this my last will & testament be 
first paid.

Item 3rd. Whereas I have as Executrix of my deceased Husband Peyton T. Pitts 
Sr. in carrying out the several items of his last Will & testament paid out 
of the money left to me by his Said Will & received on his policy of 
insurance the following debts and specific legacies to wit - Fourteen hundred 
dollars due and owing to the First Nat. Bank of Macon Ga. - two hundred & 
fifty dollars to the Methodist Church at Pitts Chapel & twenty five hundred 
dollars to Peyton H. Griswold & other smaller sums making the sum of forty 
three hundred dollars being the amount received by me under the policy of 
insurance before referred & which amount is now due me from the Estate of my 
deceased husband it is therefore my wish and desire after the payment of the 
burial expenses &c. as expressed in item the second of this my will then the 
balance of Said sum of forty three hundred dollars left remaining be equally 
divided share & share alike among the Grand Children of the said Peyton T. 
Pitts deceased to wit: Annie M. Griswold wife of Chls. T. Griswold Carrie E. 
Kingman wife of Robt. H. Kingman - Abbie M. Yarborough - Harry A. Gibson - 
Lizzie R. Moore Peyton T. Pitts Jr. & Mattie T. Pitts.

Item 4th. It is my further wish & desire & I hereby direct that my Executors 
hereinafter named will see to it in express terms that if any of the above 
named Legatees Either individually or by or through any other relative or 
friend or persons whatsoever Shall contest or caveat this my last will & 
testament then I direct in that event such part coming to that legatee or 
legatees be disallowed and any part or interest in said money as so given 
them by item the third & that there share or interest in that event be 
equally divided among those who offer no contest share & share alike.

Item 5th. I hereby nominate & appoint Robt. H. Kingman & Chls. T. Griswold my 
true & lawful executors to carry out this my last will & testament this Apl. 
9th 1887.

                              Mary B. Pitts

Signed declared & published by Mary B. Pitts as her lsat will & testament in 
presence of us the subscribers - who Subscribe our names hereto in the 
presence of said testator at her instance & request & of each other - She 
signing in our presence & we signing in her presence - 

                              O. B. Gibson
                              T. W. Duffy
                              R. V. Hardeman

Order of Probate. See Minutes May 12th 1902.
Recorded May 13th 1902.
R. H. Bonner Ordinary
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