Pike County GaArchives Wills.....Uel E. Taylor May 12 1862
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Source: Pike County Probate Court Pike Co., Ga
Written: May 12 1862
Recorded: July 6 1863

Georgia 
Pike County

In the name of God Amen
I Uel E. Taylor being of sound and disposing memory and mind do make this my 
last will and testament hereby revoking all others by me made.

Item 1st 
I desire and direct that my body be buried in a decent Christian like manner 
My soul I trust will return to God who gave it.

Item 2nd 
I desire and direct that all my just debts be paid without delay by my 
executor herein after named and appointed.

Item 3rd 
I will bequeath and devise that all my estate both real and personal of any 
kind what ever to go to and be the property of my affectionate wife Martha A. 
Taylor during her lifetime or widowhood or until my children marries or become 
of age and in that event it is my will and desire that the Executor herein 
named to appoint a committee to set apart a Negro boy or girl as the case may 
be to be given to each child as he or she becomes of age or marries to have as 
their property, the Negroes thus given is to be valued at a reasonable price 
and charge to each child when they receive it to be kept until a final 
distribution and charge to them as a part of their proportional share of my 
estate both real and personal but upon my said wife intermarries with another 
husband then and in that event my desire is that my estate be equally divided 
between my wife and children.

Item 4th 
It is further my will desire and request that my much esteemed and worthy 
friend John A. Cochran be and he is hereby appointed executor to this my last 
will and testament.
Uel E. Taylor


Signed sealed delivered and published by Uel E. Taylor as his last will and 
testament in the presence of us the subscribers who subscribed our names 
hereto in the presence of said Testator at his special instance and request 
and of each other. May 12th 1862

Wm. W. _?_
Jas R. Black
Thompson Graham



Georgia
Pike County

The will of Uel E. Taylor being produced in open court  for probate by the 
executor who has filed his petition to prove the same and one of the witnesses 
to said will Jas R. Black having subscribed to the following affidavit the 
other witnesses being absent on the said will came into open court at this 
regular term of the court Jas R. Black the other two being absent being duly 
sworn depose that he saw Uel E. Taylor sign and publish the within as his last 
will and testament while of sound and disposing mind that he witnessed the 
same for him at his request and his presence and of each other that the same 
was executed voluntarily by him on the day it purports to have been executed. 
Jas R. Black

Sworn to and subscribed before me in open court July Term 1863
Z. Sims   Ordinary


Ordered that the will be admitted to record as satisfactory proven in common 
form and that the Executor John A. Cochran have leave to qualify and upon so 
doing that letters testamentary issue to him.
Z. Sims   Ordinary  


Georgia
Pike County

I John A. Cochran do solemnly swear this writing contains the true last will 
of the within named Uel E. Taylor 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 the said will as far as his goods and chattels shall 
thereunto extend and the law charge me and that I will make a true and perfect 
inventory of all such goods and chattels so help me God.
John A. Cochran

Sworn to and subscribed July the 6th 1863
Z. Sims Ordinary



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