Will of Reuben Glaze, Oglethorpe Co. GA

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State of Georgia, Oglethorpe County: In the name of God Amen.  I Reuben
Glaze of the County and State aforesaid being of sound and disposing mind
and memory yet far advanced in age and desirous that death should not remove
me without having________disposed of my property.  To that the(?) portion I
would to my daughter Matilda Edmondson had it been her good fortune to have
married a man to whose prudence and economy I could have entrusted its
management, may not fall into the hands of her husband Richard Edmondson, do
make and ordain this to be my last will and testament.  For this purpose
mainly-Item 1st: Let all funeral and other expenses be first promptly paid
by my executors-Item 2nd: As it is my desire that my whole estate may be
divided into as many equal shares as I have children of their
representatives at the time of my death in order that each one of my said
children or their representatives may receive one and an equal share thereof
my daughter Matilda Edmondson's share to be received and managed as I shall
herein after direct.  I next will and direct that to accomplish this object
my executors set up to publickly(sic) auction to the highest bidder the
whole of my property when each legatee can bid or not buy any part of the
whole of what may constitute his equal share or not as he may deem but for
his interest and that according to the aggregate amount of this sale and my
executors settle with my several children or their representatives so as to
give and to allow each one equal share thereof and the share which under
such
circumstances as I have intimated in the preamble of this my last will I
would have given to my son-in-law Richard Edmondson and which further will
and direct shall consist wholly of money either left by me on hand at the
time of my death or raised by me from the sale aforesaid.,  I hereby give
and bequeath to my son-in-law Elam Willbanks in trust and for and upon the
following conditions viz., should he at any time during the life time of my
said daughter Matilda Edmondson adjudge and deem her in distress and
professing need of the whole or any part of the interest
which he may annually realize from the loan of said share to the support and
comfort of herself and her children.  It is my will and desire and I hereby
direct and request him to appropriate on such contingency such amount of
said interest as he may deem requisite to her necessities and I further will
and direct that should my said daughter Matilda Edmondson survive her said
husband that upon that the whole said share to be given over paid to her to
be by her enjoyed and disposed of at her pleasure, but should her said
husband survive her then upon the happening of her death I give and bequeath
the whole of said share in equal portions to the children she may leave
living.  Item 3rd: Last, I constitute and appoint my son Joseph C. Glaze and
my son-in-law Elam Willbanks the
executors of this my last will and testament thereby revoking and annulling
all others heretofore by me make this 2nd day of October 1832.
Signed, sealed, and acknowledged by the testator in the presence of the
following witnesses and________by then in my presence.

Reuben Glaze

 George Young
 Isaac Collier
 Nathan Hunter
 The day and date above written

 Georgia, Oglethorpe Co.: Personally appeared in open court Isaac Collier
and Nathan Hunter witnesses to the within will and after being duly sworn
deposeth and saith that they saw Reuben Glaze deceased sign, seal, and
publish and declare this writing to be his last will and testament that at
the time thereof he was of sound disposing mind and memory and that he did
freely without compulsion and that they saw George H. Young also sign the
same as witness to the best of their knowledge so help you God.
        Isaac Collier
        Nathan Hunter
 Recorded 11-10-1834
        Henry Britian, C.C.