Will of Mahlon B. Potts, Monroe Co. GA

From: Meredith Clapper <meredithclapper@earthlink.net>


Will of Mahlon B. Potts
State of Georgia, County of Monroe
Last Will and Testament of Mahlon B. Potts

I, Mahlon B. Potts, of said state and county being of sound and
disposing mind and memory, do make this my last will and
testament, hereby revoking all wills heretofore made by me.

Item 1st:  I wish my executors herein after named, as soon as
possible after my death, to pay all my debts.  If a sale of
property shall be necessary, I wish them to select for sale that
which can be most _____erously used for that purpose; and I
authorize them to sell the same at public or private sale, as
they may see fit.

Item 2:  I give to my beloved wife Julina Potts all my property
both real and personal for and during the term of her natural
life, she to have the rents and profits as her own and at her
death to be equally divided among my children.

Item 3rd:  I do hereby appoint my sons, Bartow and John B. Potts,
executors of this my will and relieve them of making inventory
and returns to the Court of Ordinary.

In testimony whereof, I have hereto set my hand and seal, this
30th day of November 1904.
                                         his 
                                 Mahlon B.   Potts
                                         mark
Signed and published by Mahlon B. Potts, as his last will and
testament in presence of the undersigned, who subscribed our
names hereto as witnesses at the instance and request of said
testator, and in his presence, and in the presence of each other.

This 30th day of November 1904                 B. H. Manry
                                               J. F. Wise
                                               J. E. Poe

Georgia, Monroe County

I, B. H. Manry, do swear that I as well as J. F. Wise and J. E.
Poe saw the within named Mahlon B. Potts sign and publish the
within attached paper as his last will and testament; that we
subscribed the same as witnesses thereto at the special instance
and request of the said Mahlon B. Potts and in his presence, as
did also J. F. Wise and J. E. Poe, in the presence of testator
and of each other; that the said Mahlon B. Potts signed the same
freely and voluntarily, and was, at the time of such signing, of
sound and disposing mind and memory.             
                                               B. H. Manry

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 7th day of March 1905
                                               G. E. Fletcher
                                               Ordinary        


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