Pike County GaArchives Wills.....Hale, Joseph December 3, 1849
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Source: Will Book C  Pike County Probate Court
Written: December 3, 1849
Recorded: January 14, 1850

Georgia
Pike County

In the name of God Amen

I Joseph Hale of the State and County aforesaid being of advancing age and 
infirm in body and knowing that I must sooner or later depart from this world, 
deem it right and proper both as respects myself and my family that I should 
make some arrangement with what little property a kind providence has blessed 
me with - I therefore make this my last will and testament

Item 1st      I desire and direct that my body be buried in a decent and 
Christian like manner suitable to my circumstances and condition  my soul I 
trust will return to God who gave it as I hope for eternal salvation in and 
through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ

Item 2nd     I desire and direct that all my just debts be paid as soon as it 
can be practicably done without injury to my property or family

Item 3rd     It is my will and desire that all my lands, notes, bonds , 
household and kitchen furniture, horses, hogs and cattle and in fact all my 
Estate both real and personal be left in the hands of my beloved wife Lincey 
Hale during her widowhood or lifetime  that she have full power and control of 
the same to manage for the good of the family to sell such things as they may 
have to sell and to buy such things as the family may want or their 
circumstance actually require - and it is further my desire that if it should 
appear best for the benefit of my wife and children that the present lands I 
own to be sold that my beloved wife Lincey should sell them and I do hereby 
give her full power to do so and make titles to the same.

Item 4th     It is further my desire that if any of my daughters now single 
should marry that my wife Lincey Hale give them their Bed and bed clothing so 
as to make it equal  to the amount my daughter Nancy Smith had given her when 
she Married

Item 5th     It is my will and desire should my wife Marry or not at her death 
that all the property she is then possessed of be legally sold and equally 
divided amongst my beloved children Margaret A. Hale, Mary Jane Hale, Joseph 
T. Hale, Nancy O. Hale now the wife of John Smith, Lucy M. Hale Lincey T. 
Hale, Martha E. Hale and David M. Hale., with the exception of David M. Hale 
who is now small about five years old it is my will and desire that he shall 
receive three hundred Dollars extra to the amount the rest of my children 
received for the purpose of raising him and giving him some education

Item 6th     I constitute and appoint my beloved wife Lincey Hale Executrix to 
this my last will and Testament this December 3rd 1849

Joseph Hale   his mark

Signed sealed declared and published by Joseph Hale as his last will and 
Testament in the presence of the subscribers who subscribed our names hereto 
in the presence of said Testator and of each other this 3rd December 1849

John Smith
William Perkins
David M. Bloodworth


Georgia
Pike County

We David M. Bloodworth and William Perkins do solemnly swear that we saw 
Joseph Hale (by making his mark) sign Seal publish and declare this writing to 
be and contain his will and 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 Smith sign the same as witness.

David M. Bloodworth
William Perkins

Attest in open court this 14th January 1850
W. G. Maugham  CCO



Georgia
Pike County

I Lincey Hale do solemnly swear that this writing contains the true last will 
and Testament of Joseph Hale deceased so far as I know or believe and 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.

Lincey Hale

Sworn to and subscribed in open court this 14th January 1850

Wiley G. Mangham CCO





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