Pike County GaArchives Wills.....McClendon, Jacob March 18 1870 ************************************************ 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: Bill Russell dragonraj@comcast.net September 30, 2004, 12:56 pm Source: Pike County Probate Court Written: March 18 1870 Recorded: May 3 1875 Will of Jacob McClendon Georgia Pike County In the name of God Amen I Jacob McClendon of said State and County being of advanced age and knowing that I must shortly depart this life deem it right and proper both as respects my family and myself that I should make disposition of the property with which a kind Providence has blessed me, do therefore make this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking all others heretofore made by me 1st Item I desire and direct that my body be buried in a decent and Christian like manner, suitable to my condition and circumstance in life. My soul, I trust shall return to rest with God who gave it and hope for eternal salvation through the merits and atonement of the blessed Lord and Savior Jesus Christ whose religion I have professed and as I humbly trust enjoyed for twenty three years 2nd Item I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Annis for and during her natural life only, the following property: Lot of land number one hundred and forty, whereon I now live; except the Concord Church Lot and that portion of Lot of land number one hundred and seventy four containing seventy eight acres more or less known as the John A. Nunnaly [?] place, all of Lot of land number one hundred and forty seven. All of said lands lying and being in the ninth district of originally Monroe but now Pike County. Also I grant to my beloved wife Annis for and during her natural life, all my household and kitchen furniture, one choice horse or mule, two cows and calves, and five head of dry cattle, and two hesd of hogs, which as she may chose from all my stock. Item 3rd I give and bequeath to my beloved daughter Elizabeth Lee wife of Joshua J. Lee free from the debts liabilities or control of her present or any future husbands for and during her natural life, and then to her children, an equal portion of my Estate not heretofore disposed of and I appoint my son Thomas L. McClendon Trustee of the property herein given and bequeathed to my daughter Elizabeth Lee and all her children. Item 4th I give and bequeath unto my sons William N., Robert P., Freeman, Willard, James H., Thomas L. and Jacob J. D. in fee simple each an equal portion of my estate not heretofore disposed. Item 5th It is my will, wish and desire that the property herein given and bequeathed to my wife in 2nd item, at her death be equally divided between all my children in the same manner, and on the same conditions as the other property given. Item 6th I hereby constitute and appoint my beloved Willard and Thomas L. McClendon Executors of this my last Will and Testament This March 18th 1874 Jacob McClendon Signed, sealed and declared and published by Jacob McClendon as his last Will and Testament in the presence of us the subscribers who subscribe our names hereto in the presence of said Testator at his special instance and request and of each other This March 18th 1870 R. V. Reid W. T. Chapman J. B. Mathers Georgia Pike County Before me T. J. Blasingame Ordinary in and for said County in open court personally came R. V. Reid and John B. Mathers two of the subscribing witnesses to the last Will and Testament of Jacob McClendon deceased, late of said County who being duly sworn depose and say they saw said Jacob McClendon sign, seal, and heard him publish and declare the said instrument hereto attached, as his last Will and Testament voluntarily and freely without any compulsion and they signed said will as witnesses in the presence of said Jacob McClendon at his request and that they saw W. T. Chapman the other witness sign the same as witness in the presence of Testator and in the presence of each other. The Testator was of sound disposing mind and memory at the time of signing the same Sworn to and subscribed before me in open court This the 3rd day of May 1875 T. J. Blasingame Ordinary R. V. Reid J. B. Mathers State of Georgia Pike County Codicil Whereas, I Jacob McClendon did on the eighteenth day of March in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and seventy, sign, seal and declare and publish my last Will and Testament in the presence of R. V. Reid, W. T. Chapman and J. B. Mathers who signed the said Will and Testament as witnesses and whereas I am desirous of altering and changing a bequest and devise in the third Item of said Will and Testament I therefore make and publish this codicil to said Will and Testament First I revoke and annul so much of the said third item of the said Will and Testament as relates to my appointing my son Thomas L. McClendon as Trustee of the property therein given in said third item, and bequeathed to my daughter Elizabeth Lee and all her children. Jacob McClendon Signed, Sealed, declared and published by Jacob McClendon as his Codicil to his Last Will and Testament in the presence of us the subscribers who subscribed our names in the presence of said Testator at his special instance and request and of each other January 10th 1874 John D. Gregg Isaac Strickland John B. Mathers Georgia Pike County We John B. Mathers and Isaac Strickland do solemnly swear that we saw Jacob McClendon sign seal and heard him publish and declare the within and foregoing writing as a supplement to his last Will and at the time Thereof he was of sound disposing mind and memory that he did it freely without any compulsion to the best of our knowledge and belief and that we saw John D. Gregg sign the same as witness in presence of said Jacob McClendon and in presence of each other on the day it purports to have been executed. J. B. Mathers Isaac Strickland Sworn to and subscribed before me in open court this the 3rd day of May 1875 T. J. Blasingame Ordinary Georgia Pike County We Williard McClendon and Thomas L. McClendon do solemnly swear that the within writing contains the true last Will and Testament and supplement of Jacob McClendon deceased as 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 Williard McClendon Tho. L. McClendon Sworn to and subscribed before me in open court this the 3rd day of May 1875 T. J. Blasingame Ordinary Recorded May 3rd 1875 T. J. Blasingame Ordinary File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/pike/wills/wl493mcclendo.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 6.9 Kb