Pike County GA Wills George W. Head - 1887 File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Doris Irons Greer caldor@neto.com http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/pike.htm Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm Georgia Table of Contents: WILLS: Bk D 280-282 George W. Head July 8, 1887 Pike County, Georgia ********************************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net ***************************************************************************************************************************** This file submitted November 20, 2001 by Doris Irons Greer caldor@neto.com George W. Head: Will dated July 8, 1887 Pike Co.,Georgia Bk D 280-282 State of Georgia ) Merriwether County) In the name of God Amen. I George W. Head, being of a sound mind and knowing that it is appointed unto man to die, feel that it is due myself & family that I make a distribution of the things entrusted to me by a kind providence. Item 1st I will and direct that my body after my death be buried in a decent, and Christian like manner. My should I trust shall rest with God through the merits of Jesus Blood. Item 2nd I will and direct that all my just debts be paid as soon as practicable by my executor herein named and appointed. Item 3rd I will and bequeath to my beloved wife Lavina C. Head all my lands whereon I now reside in the middle ninth district of Meriwether County, near Flat Shoals to have and to hold for her special benefit during her natural life (except seventy Acres that I herein after will and bequeath to my daughter, Elizabeth Henrietta Dupree.) together with all my household and Kitchen furniture and including all perishable property on said place to be managed and disposed of as my executor herein after named deems best for the interest of my wife and estate. Item 4th I have give to my children heretofore as follows: to my daughter mariann Eliza De Laperson the amount of eleven hundred and thirty three dollars and sixty six cents. To my daughter Elizabeth Henretta Dupree the amount of thirteen hundred and fifty five dollars and eighty seven cents. To my daughter Lavina Celicia Hutchinson the amount of one thousand and thirty eight Dollars and thirty three cents. To my son William J. Head the amount of Thirteen hundred and eighty eight Dollars and Sixty nine cents. To my daughter Margaret Ann Lawson, the amount of one thousand and eighty three dollars and twenty five cents. To my daughter Nancy Jackson Zelner, the amount of eight hundred and two dollars and fifty cents. To my daughter Georgian Ann Copeland, the amount of nine hundred and seventy seven dollars and fifty cents. To my son James M. Head the amount of six hundred and fifty dollars. This being all I intended giving until the last division of my estate except to my daughter Elizabeth Hennretta Dupree. I will and bequeath unto her and the heirs of her body seventy acres of land described as follows beginning at the north West corner of my lands next to the lands of H. H. Banghan and James McKnight and running on the line between mine and McKnight's lands south to the road near the said McKnight's house. Thence down the said road, towards the branch to the corner of the said McKnight's lands. Thence due south five rods, thence due east to such a point as will give seventy acres by a line running from from said point due north to the original line. Thence west to the aforesaid corner between mine and the said Banghan and McKnight lands. I desire and direct that my executors have the said seventy acres of land appraised by three or five disinterested persons and that he hold the same in trust for my daughter Elizabeth Hennretta Dupree and her bodily heirs the value of the same to be counted in with what I have already given her and to be accounted for in the last division of my estate. Item 5th I will that my executor after selling or disposing of the perishable property of my estate to take charge of the same together with the right to rent or lease the aforesaid farm as he might think best for the interest of my wife and estate holding and noing any supplies that may accrue from the estate for benefit of the legatees of said estate. My wife not to be restricted in what she may desire for her comfort and convenience while she may live. Item 6th I will at the death of my wife that my executor shall make a disposition of said lands wither by division or sale and to divide out the proceeds of said estate in his hands among the aforesaid legatees each one accounting for the amount they have allready received so that each one may share and share alike. Item 7 I hereby appoint my son James M. Head my executor to carry into effect this my last Will & Testament. Signed sealed and acknowledged by George W. Head, as his last will and testament in presence of the subscribers who subscribe our names hereto in the presence of said testator and of each other. This July the 8th 1887 Witnesses W. F. Gay, JP J. W. Estes ) G. W. Head E. C. Thrash J. T. Mathews ) Georgia ) Pike County) Before me personally appeared J. W. Estes named as a witness to the within writing purporting to be the last will of G. W. Head who being duly sworn deposed and says he with W. F. Gay, E. C. Thrash, and J. T. Mathews did on the 8th day of July 1887 attest as witnesses the within writing in the presence of G. W. Head, who in their presence voluntarily signed and published the same as his last will and that said G. W. Head was at the time of said attestation and signing of sound and disposing mind and Memory. Sworn to and Subscribed before me) J. W. Estes This the 5th day of Feby 1900 ) J. W. Means, Ordinary. I do solemnly swear that this writing contains the true last will of the within named G. W. Head so far as I know or believe and that I will well and truly execute the same in accordance with the laws of the state so help me God. Sworn to and subscribed before me) this 5th day of February 1900 ) J. M Head J. W. 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