SCREVEN COUNTY, GA - WILLS Mrs. Cynthia A. Henderson

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Transcribed by Carole Farr Drexel, great great granddaughter of
W. M. Henderson, 2/6/2003.  No part of this will or foregoing
information may be used for commercial gain or without my
permission.

Georgia, Screven
County.


Last Will and Testament of Cynthia Anne Gray Brown Henderson


I, Mrs. Cynthia A. Henderson, being of sound and disposing mind
and memory, do make this my Last Will and Testament.


Item First:  I will and direct that all my just debts be paid by
my Executrix, herein after named, without unnecessary delay. Item
2nd:  I hereby give and bequeath to my husband William M.
Henderson, all of my property both real and personal, wherever
located for and during his natural life and upon his death it is
my desire and I so will and direct that said property shall
descend to and be divided among my following children:  Mrs.
Elizabeth Evans, Mrs. Annie L. Farr, Mrs. Mary A. Overstreet,
Mrs. Emma G. Hollingsworth, and Miss Lottie L. Henderson in the
following manner: I desire and so will and direct, that my
daughter, Lottie L. Henderson, shall receive upon the death of my
said husband, all that tract or parcel of land, lying and being
in the 35th G. M. District of Screven County, Georgia, containing
Twenty (20) acres, more or less, and bounded on the North by
lands of E. L. Oliver, on the East by lands of J. C.
Hollingsworth, Sr., on the South by the Louisville Public Road,
and on the West by lands of H. W. Williams, the same being and
including my home in which I now reside. I desire and so will and
direct that upon the death of my said husband that all my
remaining property, both real and personal shall be divided among
my children above named, share and share alike, it being my
intention that my daughter, Lottie L. Henderson shall have the
home as a special bequest and shall share with my other children
above named in the division of the remainder of my estate. Item
3rd:  It has been my intention to dispose of all my property of
every nature, but should there be any omitted, it is my will and
I direct that such residue of my estate shall go to my husband if
he is living at the time of my death and if not to my above named
children, share and share alike. Item 4th:  I hereby constitute
and appoint my daughter Lottie L. Henderson the sole Executrix of
this my last will and testament, hereby relieving her of giving
any bond or making any returns or accountings to any Court.


Cynthia A. Henderson.


Signed, declared and published s 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 the Testator, signing the same in her presence and in
the presence of each other, and after the Testator had signed the
same. This the 4th day of August, 1917. Mrs. R. H. Norman John C.
Hollingsworth C. D. Hollingsworth


Recorded this the 14th day of June, 1921.


C. A. Strickland, Ordinary


Recorded in Record of Wills, Book 1, Screven County, Georgia


This Last Will and Testament of Mrs. Cynthia A. Henderson (nee
Cynthia Anne Gray Brown, or Mrs. Wm. M. Henderson), was found in
the Wills folder at the Probate Court, Screven County, Georgia,
and transcribed by Carole Farr Drexel, her great great
granddaughter, 2/14/2003.  She is buried next to her husband, Wm.
Michael Henderson, CSA, in Oak Grove United Methodist Church
Cemetery, Cooperville, Screven County, Georgia, in the Henderson
Family plot.


Transcribed by Carole Farr Drexel, 2/14/2003.  No part of this
will or foregoing information may be used for commercial gain or
without my permission.

NOTES:

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, 10 October, 1865, said
Marriage Certificate found in (Cynthia) Anne (Gray Brown)
Henderson's family Bible, as married by Bro. W. M. Merritt, and
as witnessed by Cynthia Anne' s brother, Dr. James F. Brown, and
his wife, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Henderson Brown.  Lizzie Brown, nee
Henderson, was the sister of Wm. M. Henderson, CSA, the groom
herein named.

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