Pike County GaArchives Wills.....Levi Martin September 2 1851
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Source: Will Book C  Pike County Probate Court
Written: September 2 1851
Recorded: September 12 1858

In the name of God Amen. I Levi Martin of Pike County and State of Georgia, 
being in common health and I believe of sound mind, but considering the 
uncertainty of life, do with my own hand write this my last will and testament 
in form following towit

First
I will that my just debts be paid.

2nd 
I will that my beloved wife Jemima Martin by name if she should out live me 
remain in possession of my present home or the one that I may possess at the 
time of my decease and also my personal property or as much as may be 
necessary for her comfort during her natural lifetime or widowhood. But in the 
distribution of the property, I will that she take a childs part or one third 
in the terms of the law as she may think best. I further will that the heirs 
of my beloved son Jacob Martin have only five dollars not that I loved them 
less than my other children but because they are well provided for, and the 
little I could give them would be hardly noticed in his great estate, but 
would be much needed by the younger children. I further will that my beloved 
son William Martin have only five dollars as the above, for the same reason 
that he is well off. I further will that my beloved daughter Elizabeth Thomson 
as a gift to her for my love towards her have twenty five dollars although her 
husband has good property. The other children towit Mary Blankinship, Elijah 
F. Martin, Newton Martin and David N. Martin all have one hundred dollars less 
each of them than those children that are younger towit Isaac Martin, Joshua C. 
Martin and Jemima Ann Martin in consequence of what the first named 
children have already received. I further will that what I give and bequeath 
to my daughter Mary Blankinship be not subject to the control of her husband 
but entirely left to her to dispose of as she may choose.
I also appoint my son Elijah F. Martin to be my Executor to carry into effect 
this my last will and testament with power to sell any land on which the 
family does not reside, at private or public sale as he may think best for the 
benefit of the heirs or creditors or any personal property that he may think 
best by the consent of his mother _?_ before assigned.

Levi Martin


Signed sealed acknowledged and published in our presence and witnessed by us 
in presence of Testator this second day of September eighteen hundred and 
fifty one.

Wiley Thornton
William Thomson
Fredrick A. Gardner(?)





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