Pike County GaArchives Wills.....Scott, Mary May 28, 1861
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Source: Will Book C 1866 Pike County Probate Court
Written: May 28, 1861
Recorded: April 2, 1866

Georgia 
Pike County

I Mary Scott of said county and State do make ordain publish and declare this 
my last will and testament.

1st  My will and decree is that upon my death all my just debts in any be paid 
out of my estate and the rest of my estate of what kind so ever be the same 
real personal or mixed be divided share and share alike between my following 
named children viz. Margaret Jane Scott, William S. Scott, Joseph M. Scott, 
Robert M. Scott & Zachariah T. Scott, and it is my will and desire that they 
divide the whole of my estate aforesaid among them by lot or private sale as 
to my Executor hereinafter named shall seem most fit and proper.

2nd   It is my will desire that neither my daughter Mary C. Jackson nor her 
husband Hardy R. Jackson nor my daughter Sarah A. Coggin wife of Mathew P. 
Coggin nor Mary E. Holsey wife of Robert Holsey nor neither of them receive 
any portion of my estate but that the whole of my estate as aforesaid go to 
and be equally divided among my children named in the first item of this will 
share and share alike for ever [ _ ].

3rd   I hereby appoint my son William S. Scott executor of this my last will 
and testament, In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 
28th day of May 1861

Mary Scott her mark

We whose names are hereto signed done so at the request of Mary Scott, she 
declaring the same to be her last will and testament, she signing the same in 
our presence and we each in the presence of each other.
Hartford Green
John J. Caldwell
John H. Mitchell
Georgia
Pike County

Before me came on the 23rd February 1864 at Chambers for the purpose of 
proving [?] the last will and testament of Mary Scott the witnesses to said 
will J. H. Mitchell & Hartford Green and the will having been brought before 
me for probate by the Executor who has filed a petition for probate of the 
same they the said witnesses depose of the same that they saw said Mary Scott 
sign and publish the same as her last will on the day and year then stated as 
executor by him that they witnessed the same at his request in the presence 
and in presence of each other that the same was voluntarily executed by her 
while she was of sound and deposing mind & memory.

Hartford Green
John H. Mitchell

Sworn and subscribed
Feby the 23rd 1864
Z. Sims Ordy.

Georgia 
Pike County

I William S. Scott do solemnly swear that this writing contains the true last 
will and testament of the within named Mary Scott deceased so far as I know or 
believe, and that I will well and truly execute the same by paying first the 
just debts and then the Legacies contained in said will as far as her goods 
and chattels will whereunto 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.
W. S. Scott 

Sworn to and Subscribed in open Court before me this 2nd day of April 1866
J. J. Harper Ordy


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