Meriwether County GaArchives Wills.....Bell, Sarah January 12, 1863
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Source: Family Lineage
Written: January 12, 1863

Georgia Meriwether County, I Sarah Bell of the County and State of aforesaid 
living, weak and feeble of body but of sound mind and memory do make this my 
last will and testament. 

Item 1
I consign my body to the dust from whence it came, and my spirit to God who 
gave it.

Item 2
I give and bequeath to my son James Bell my Negro woman Jane and her child 
William Henderson after my death at the appraisement value.

Item 3
I give and bequeath after my death my Negro boy Allen to my daughter Lucinda 
Jourdan during her natural life and afterwards to her bodily heirs.

Item 4
I give and bequeath after my death my Negro girl (could be Nancy) Ann to my 
daughter Nancy kempson during her natural life then to her bodily heirs.

Item 5
I give and begueath to my two daughters Lucinda Jourdan and Nancy Kempson my 
lot and two quilts and one counterpane a piece.  I desire, give and bequeath to 
my granddaughter Nancy Elizabeth Bell, daughter of George A. Hall one hundred 
dollars, and if she should die without an heir, the said hundred dollars to 
revert back to my children.

Item 6
I request an upon my death that my land and all of my stock and farming tools, 
wagons, and buggy together with my household funiture except the articles named 
in the fifth item to be sold.

Item 7
I desire after my death that all of my property both real and personal shall be 
appraised and equal distribution between all of my children made.  If the 
Negroes should be appraised to more than the distribution share of those to 
whom I have willed them-for them to pay sufficient to make them equal.

Item 8
I make and appoint and my son James Bell executor to this my last will and 
testament.

Test
J.P. Taylor
George Caldwell
Walter Pope

                               In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand 
and affixed my seal this 12th January 1863.
           Her
           Sarah X Bell
                       Mark

Court of ordinary February Term 1863

       The last will an testament of Sarah Bell dec'd having been____ ____ in 
_____ upon the oaths of George Caldwell an Walter R. Pope two of the 
subscribing witnesses to said will and no objection being offered at this 
quarter term of the court.  It is ordered that the same be admitted to record 
as the true last will of said dec'd.

F, Kendall, Ordinary



 


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