SCREVEN COUNTY, GA - WILLS - W.M. Henderson

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Last Will and Testament of W. M. Henderson
Georgia, Screven County.

I, W. M. Henderson, being of sound and disposing mind and
memory do make this my Last Will and Testament.

Item 1st:  I will and direct that all my just debt be paid
by my Executrix hereinafter named without unnecessary
delay.

Item 2nd:  I hereby give and bequeath to my wife, Cynthia
Ann Henderson, all of my property, both real and personal
wherever located for and during her natural life and upon
her death it is my desire and I so will and direct that
said property shall descend to and be divided among my
following children, share and share alike, to wit:  Mrs.
Elizabeth Evans, Mrs. Annie L. Farr, Mrs. Mary A.
Overstreet, Mrs. Emmie G. Hollingsworth, and Miss Lottie
Henderson.

Item 3rd:  I hereby constitute and appoint my daughter,
Lottie L. Henderson, the sole Executrix of this my Last
Will and Testament; hereby relieving her from giving any
bond or making any returns to any Court.

W. M. Henderson (seal)

Signed, declared and published as the Last Will and
Testament of the Testator in the presence of us, who have
subscribed our names hereto as witnesses to said Will, at
the special instance and request of said Testator, signing
the same in his presence and in the presence of each other
and after the said Testator had signed the same.

This 4th day of August, 1917
Mrs. R. Norman
John C. Hollingsworth
C. D. Hollingsworth

Georgia, Screven County.

I, Lottie L. Henderson, do solemnly swear that the within
writing is the tru last will and testament of W. M.
Henderson, so far as I know and believe, and that I will
well and truly execute the same according to law.  So help
me GOD.

December 5, 1932.

Lottie Henderson

Sworn to and subscribed before me, 
December 5, 1932.

G. A. Strickland, Ordinary,
Screven County, Georgia.

Recorded in Will Book 42, page 19.

William Michael Henderson, CSA, was born 28 February, 1843,
to William Michael Henderson and his wife, Mary Ann Young,
daughter of James Young and Lavinia Jones Young.  He served
in the 5th Georgia Calvary, and was promoted to 1st
Lieutenant after his bravery was exhibited on the
battlefield during the Battle of Buck Creek Church, Burke
County, Georgia, wherein he rescued the fallen regiment
flag.  That flag was later, posthumorously, delivered to
the Bulloch Troops in Statesboro, Georgia, in May of 1832,
after his death at 6:00 a.m. at his home in Cooperville,
Georgia, on 17th of April, 1932.

He married Cynthia Anne Gray Brown at her father’s home,
Col W. M. Brown, CSA, in Marion County, Georgia, 

Transcribed by Carole Farr Drexel, great great granddaughter of W. M. Henderson
2/6/2003