Pike County GaArchives Wills.....Marshall, John February 15 1839
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Source: Will Book B P.72-74 Pike County Probate Court
Written: February 15 1839
Recorded: May 4 1839

Will of John Marshall

Georgia 
Pike County

Know all men by these present that I John Marshall of the State and County 
aforesaid, with a view that my earthly estate after my death may be managed 
directed & disposed of according to my own will & desire: Being feeble in body 
though through the mercies of a Kind Providence possessed of a sound disposing 
mind & memory, make this my last will & testament thereby revoking all other 
wills made by me. For the natural love & affection I have to my beloved wife 
Elizabeth Marshall as well as to provide for the temporal comfort of her & my 
beloved children; It is my will & desire that all my estate real personal & 
mixed should be kept together, unsold and undivided solely under the care 
direction & superintendence of my beloved wife & Son Stephen Wright Marshall, 
To be by them conducted in such manner as they may deem best for the interest 
of my estate & children, until the death of my beloved wife Elizabeth, Subject 
however to the following directives, (to wit) So soon as my debts are paid & 
the necessary wants of  my other family are provided for , It is my will & 
desire that my beloved daughter Martha Caroline Allen shall receive the sum of 
five hundred dollars, It being the sum I wish & desire all my other children 
(Pendleton Jones Marshall) excepted to have soon as they respectively reach 
the age of twenty one years or shall marry, For the natural love & affection I 
bear to my beloved son Pendleton Jones Marshall I will and bequeath unto him 
the following tracts of land to wit- Lot No. one hundred & forty in the 
sixteenth district of Irwin County when surveyed containing five hundred & 
ninety acres, Also lot No. eight hundred & sixty three in the fourth district 
of the first section of  Cherokee when surveyed which lots with what I have 
already given him is all I intend or devise he shall have or receive of my 
estate now or hereafter
  It is my further will & desire [?devise] that should my beloved wife live to 
see my youngest child if lawful age & and should think proper that she may 
then cause my remaining estate to be equally divided among my beloved children 
of her body, should she not think proper to do so then it is my wifes desire 
the same should be done at her death by sale division or [-----] as will best 
comport with equal justice to each of beloved children of her body- For the 
love affection & confidence I bear towards & have in my beloved wife Elizabeth 
MArshall and son Stephen Wright Marshall I hereby nominate them my executrix & 
executor to execute this my last will & testament. In testimony whereof I have 
hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal this 15 of Feb 1839
                                                                               
                                                                John Marshall
In presence of
Charles McDowell
Robert Allen
Henry Stokes


Georgia
Pike County

Court of Ordinary May Term 1839
The last will & testament of John Marshall having been duly proven at this 
regular term in open court, upon the oaths of Charles McDowell Robert Allen & 
Henry Stokes ordered that the same be admitted to record

Georgia 
Pike County

I Elizabeth Marshall do solemnly swear that this writing contains the true 
last will & testament of the within named John Marshall deceased so far as I 
know or believe & that I will well & truly execute the same by paying first 
the the debts & then the legacies contained in said will as far as his goods & 
chattels will thereto extend & the law charge me & that I will make a true & 
perfect inventory of all such goods and chattels, so help me God.
                                               Elizabeth (her mark) Marshall
 
Sworn to & subscribed in open Court this 4th May 1839
H. G. Johnson C.C.O.



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