Pike County  GA   Will  Eli Hood

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Wills:   Bk D 48 - 49    
Eli Hood, December 23, 1878    
Pike County, Georgia
 
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ELI HOOD Will dated December 23, 1878
Pike County, Georgia  Bk D  48-49
 
Georgia       )
Pike County) 

I Eli Hood of said State and County make and declare this
writing to contain my last will and Testament hereby
declaring all former wills by me made to be revoked.

Item 1st   I will and bequeath that after my death, all
of my just debts be paid, by my Executors hereinafter
named.

Item 2nd   I will and bequeath that all of my property
both real and personal be sold to the highest bider and
the proceeds be equally divided between all of my
children David J. Hood, William D. Hood, James A. Hood,
Henry T. Hood, Mary F. P. Stearns, Sarah J. M. Nelson and
Martha Hood.

Item 3rd.   My will wish and desire is that the Executors
herein named, give to Fannie Innes formerly the wife of
my son R. F. Hood, Five Dollars.

Item 4th  I will that the portion falling to my daughter
Permela Stearns is hers and her children not subject to
the debts of her present or any future husband.

Item 5th  My will is that my daughter Martha Hood take
care of a certain set of Silver tea spoons as a matter of
respect for the giver.

Item 6th  It is my will that a deed of gift bearing date
the 31st of December 1872 is still of force and that I
want said gift carried out.

Item 7th  My will is that my son Jas A. Hood and my
friend J. A. Williams act as my executors and carry out
this my last will and testament.

In witness whereof I Eli Hood has herein to sit my hand
and declaring this writing to be his will the 23 December
1878.

Eli Hood    (seal)
 
We the undersigned saw Eli Hood sign and seal and heard
him say and publish and declare this writing to contain
his last will & Testament and that we signed the same in
his presence and in the presence of each other, at his
request the 23d December 1878.
 
A. W. Blake
J. L. Banks
B. M. Owen
 
Georgia        ) 
 Pike County)

Before me came on the 21st. day of June 1880 at chambers
for the purpose of proving the last will and testament of
Eli Hood the witness to said will Viz: A. W. Blake and
the will having been before that time brought before me
for probate by the executors J. A. Hood and J. A.
Williams who have billed a petition for probate of the
same, the said witness deposes and of the same that he
saw said Eli Hood sign and publish the same as his last
will and Testament in the day and the year there stated
as Executed by him that he witnessed the same at his
request in his presence that the same was voluntarily
executed by him while he was of sound and disposing mind
and memory.
 
Sworn in & subscribed before me) 
the 12th day of June 1880             )          A. W. Blake
T. J. Blasingame                             )
Ordinary                                           )
 
Georgia       )
Pike County) 

We J. A. Williams and J. A. Hood Executors of Eli Hood
deceased, do solemnly  swear that the within writing
contains the true last will of the within named Eli Hood,
deceased, so far as we know or believe, and that we will
well and truly execute the same in accordance with the
laws of this state, so help us God.
 
Sworn to and subscribed before me)
this July 5th 1880                                )
T. J. Blasingame                                 )
Ordinary                                               )
 
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