Pike County GaArchives Wills.....Banks, John H. April 20, 1846 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: William Russell dragonraj@comcast.net September 6, 2006, 3:30 pm Source: Will Book C 1846 Pike County Probate Court Written: April 20, 1846 Recorded: August 18, 1846 Georgia Pike County I John H. Banks of the County of Pike and State of Georgia being of sound mind and memory feeling the uncertainty of life and wishing to settle my worldly affairs while my life is spared. I hereby constitute this my last will and testament hereby revoking and making void all former wills made by me Item 1st I commit my soul and my body to my God who gave it Item 2nd I hereby constitute and appoint David C. Richardson of the County of Monroe and State of Georgia my sole executor to carry out this my last will and testament Item 3rd I wish to transmit all my property both real and personal into the care of my beloved wife Sarah B. Banks during her life or widowhood, to raise our minor children, and to keep all and everything together as at present, during the course of the fiscal year or at any subsequent time; if my wife should wish to remove I hereby authorize my said Executor to sale my present residence, at private or public sale as he may think best in conjunction with my wife, and if they sale to act in concert in the purchase of [ _ ] land which shall be recognized as a portion of my Estate for the benefit of my wife and minor children after the disposition of my crop and the collection of all moneys and assets due me to pay all my just debts in case the latter will not discharge all my debts, then I Hereby authorize my Executor as aforesaid and in consideration with my wife to sell any portion of my property that they think needed to discharge the same. Item 4th That equal justice may be done to all my children and as I have given to each of my children that have married a Negro woman worth say six hundred dollars, a horse saddle & bridle worth say eighty dollars, a good feather bed & furniture one cow & calf the two latter articles worth say sixty dollars. I wish and desire that my Executor out of my Estate shall give the balance of my legal heirs at their marriage or of becoming of legal age the above described property of the equivalent in money. Item 5th In case my beloved wife should marry I hereby authorize my Executor to give her out of my estate an equal portion with my children as above described and to dispose of the residue of my Estate and that an equal distribution shall take place between all my legal heirs my wife considered amongst the children as a legal heir. J. H. Banks Signed & sealed in the presence of us this 20th day of April 1846 J. G. Westmoreland Wm. C. Miles Thos. C. Taylor Georgia Pike County We William C. Miles and Thomas C. Taylor do solemnly swear that we saw John H. Banks sign, seal, publish and declare this writing to be and contain his will that at the time thereof he was of sound disposing mind and memory and that he did it freely without compulsion to the best of our knowledge and that we saw John G. Westmoreland sign the same as witness this 18th August 1846 Wm. C. Miles Thos. C. Taylor Abst Wiley E. Mangham CCO Georgia Pike County I David C. Richardson do solemnly swear that this writing contains the last will and testament of John H. Banks deceased so far as I know or believe & that I will well and truly execute the same by paying first the debts and then the legacies contained in said will as far as his goods and chattels will thereunto extend and the Law charges me and that I will make a true and perfect inventory of all such goods and chattels so help me God David C. Richardson Sworn to and subscribed in open Court this 18th August 1846 Wiley E. Mangham File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/pike/wills/banks640wl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.2 Kb