Pike County GaArchives Wills.....Thomas Holsey June 23 1877 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: D Hill dawnlfdp@yahoo.com November 24, 2003, 3:28 pm Source: Georgia, Pike County, Will Book D, Page 24 Written: June 23 1877 Recorded: August 7 1877 Georgia, Pike County Will Book D, Page 24 State of Georgia, Pike County} Last Will and of Thomas Holsey resident of said State & County. Item 1st Intending this will to be a final disposition of my estate I hereby revoke all wills heretofore made by me. Item 2nd I give to my daughter Frances C. Holsey now married to William D. Dindler the west half of lot number one hundred and one (101) being the same on which I now live including my residence also I give her two acres off of lot number one hundred and twenty four (124) lying immediately south of my dwelling and so laid off as to include the orchard, and horse lot, cribs and stables. Item 3rd I give to my daughter Nancy R Drewry one hundred acres of land being the west half of lot number, one hundred and twenty four (124) known as the Bob Rivers tract, except two acres square around the Ingram settlement, in lieu of which I give her ten acres off the Ben Huckaby lot or half lot number one hundred and twenty three (123) to be laid off in the south east corner of said lot. Item 4th I give to my daughter Mary Jane Hancock the north half of lot number one hundred and twenty three, except ten acres previously given off in the south-east corner also I give her the ten acres around the Ingram settlement excepted on the Bob Rivers half lot. Item 5th I give my son James W, Holsey fifty eight acres of land being on the east side the whole length of lot number one hundred and two (102). Item 6th It is my wish and desire that my executor hereafter to be named shall have the several portions of land above given off to my children valued by judicious appraisers and when one has a portion of more value than another, I want each of my children to share equally in my property after my debts are paid taking into account such advancements as have been made from time to time as will appear from receipts in my possession. Item 7th I hereby appoint my son James W Holsey as my executor of this my last Will and Testament On testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand this 23d June 1877 Thomas Holsey Signed and published by Thomas Holsey as his last Will and Testament in our presence as witnesses thereto by his request this 23d June 1877 Wm. M Blanton James W Ingram William A Enlow Will Book D, Page 25 Pike Court of Ordinary August Term 1877 The Will of Thomas Holsey being produced in open court for Probate, by the executor, who has filed his petition to prove the same, and two of the witnesses to said will to wit Jas. W Ingram and Wm A Enlow having subscribed the following affidavit indorsed on said Will August term 1877 of Pike Court of Ordinary. Came into open court at this regular term of the court James W Ingram and Wm N Enlow and being duly sworn, dispose and say that they saw Thomas Holsey sign and seal & heard him publish and declare the within and foregoing instrument of writing to be and contains his last Will and Testament while of sound and disposing mind and memory. That Wm M Blanton Jas W Ingram & William A Enlow the three subscribing witnesses to said will witnesses the same from him at his special instance and request and in his presence and in presence of each other and that the same was executed voluntarily by him on the day it purports to have been executed sworn to & subscribed before me in open court this August 6th 1877} James W Ingram T J Blasingame Ordinary } William A Enlow Georgia Pike County} I James W Holsey do solemnly swear that the foregoing instrument of writing contains the last Will and Testament of Thomas Holsey 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 was and that I will make a true and perfect inventory of all such goods and chattels So help me God Sworn to & subscribed before me in open court August 6th 1877} James W Holsey T J Blasingame Ordinary } Recorded August 7th 1877 Thos J Blasingame Ordinary This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 5.1 Kb