Talbot County  Georgia Will of John Catlett Martin, Jr.

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Talbot County
State of Georgia
Court of Ordinary
Wills
1856 – 1928


Page 39


John C. Martin


Georgia         
Talbot County


I John C. Martin of the County and State aforesaid do
make and publish this to be my last will and
testament in manner [of form] following to wit.

Item 1st        I wish all of my debts paid out of my
Estate.

Item 2nd        It is my will and wish that after the
payment of my debts that the whole of my Estate both
real and personal shall shall be kept together as a
Common Stock fund for the joint use and support of my
wife and all of my children, to be educated and
reared out of same and it is my wish that as my
children arrive at age or marry they auto draw from
the Common Stock their respective share the same to
be taken out of valuation, having agreed to quality
and quantity the remainder to be kept as before,
directed and so on until the Youngest shall arrive at
age or marry, provided however if my wife should
choose at any time to draw from my Estate her share
she is at liberty to do so which is to be an equal
share with the children and it is my will and wish
that my Executor in the management of my Estate are
to have power to sell and buy and reinvest again in
nay kind of property and are hereby clothed with such
powers in the sale of land or negroes or other
property as they in ! their judgement may deem most
conducive to the interest & welfare of my Estate and
it is further my wish that if my Executor at any time
should find it to the interest of my Estate to have
the same divided they are hereby authorized to do so
and so managed same as their judgement.  may seem
best adapted for the joint interest of my wife &
children 

I do hereby nominate and appoint my brother in law
Irbane A. Leonard & my wife Lettitia Martin Executor
& Executrix of this my last will & testament.  In
witness whereof I have  hereunto set my hand & seal
this 15th day of November 1857.  

Signed & acknowledged and [    ] in pressince of us.


                                                                        John C. Martin


        M.J. Mulkey
        W.C. Wimberly
        S.T. V?
        Record 18th December 1857.
                                Marion Bethune Ordinary





Terry A. Harper
tharper1@cox.net

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