Muscogee County  Georgia Will   Daniel Cordray

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State of Georgia
Muscogee County
In the name  of God, Amen! I, Daniel Cordray of said
county and State being of advanced age and knowing
that I must shortly depart this life deem it right
and proper both as it  impacts my family and myself
that I should make a  disposition of the property
with which a kind Providence has blessed me, do
therefore make this my last will and testament
thereby revoking all others heretofore made by me.

1 Item. I desire and direct that after my death that
my body be buried in a decent and Christianlike
manner suitable to my circumstances and condition in
life.  My soul I trust will return to rest with God
who gave it.

2 Item. I desire and direct that all my just debts be
paid as soon as circumstances will permit by my
executors hereinafter named.

3 Item. I give, bequeath and devise my beloved wife
Celia with whom I have lived for about forty years
and we have together raised and now are living all of
my land of every kind and nature, my two negroes, to
wit a man named Arnold and a woman named Bella, all
my horses, all my cattle, all my hogs, all my
household and kitchen furniture, all the provisions
of every kind, the present growing crops, all of the
plantation utensils of every kind and nature, all of
which property is to be kept together during the
widowhood of my beloved wife and at the happening or
occurrence of the death or marriage of my said wife
Celia it is my ill and desire that a sale be made of
my (?) may be deemed (by my executors herinafter
named) most advantageous to the interest of all my
children and that an equal division of the proceeds
of the same shall be made with all my children share
and share alike.

4 Item. I hereby constitute and appoint my beloved
sons Jonathan and Daniel Cordray Executors of this my
last will and testament this August 7th, 1857. Daniel
Cordray (his signature)

Signed sealed declared and published by Daniel
Cordray as his last will and testament in the
presence of these subscribers who subscribe their
names hereto in the presence of said testator and of
each other this August 7th, 1857.  

Darius Cox (signature), 
John F. Simmons (signature),
 Mary A. B. Lee (signture), 
J. A. L. Lee (signature).
 
Note: Daniel Cordray's children were Jonathan, Aaron,
Daniel, Harriett (who married William T. Harrell),
L.Jane, Sarah (who married Isaac Columbus Ginn), and
Mary (who married John W. Parsons).




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