Twiggs  County  Georgia Wills  Elam Hinson
 
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WILL OF ELAM HINSON,  Book A., p. 2:
Gives to Wife, ELIZABETH HINSON, in lieu of a dower .
. . one hundred one and a quarter acres of land . . .
south half of lot No. 67 . . . one hundred and three-
quarters acres of land in the south west corner of
lot No. 54.  At wife's death the land is to belong to
daughter, EMMA B. HINSON, or her heirs.  If she has
no heirs at her death the land is to belong to
daughters FRANCES M. HINSON and ANNA READ . . . 

It is my will that as long as my daus. EMMA B. and
FRANCES M. remain single they shall have a home where
I now live and be supported & maintained off of the
land bequeathed in this item as they always have.  

All personal property is bequeathed to wife.  

To daus. FRANCES M. HINSON and ANNA READ one hundred
eighty-six acres of lot No. 202.  

To dau. MARTHA A. WALL and her children seventy acres
of land being the N.E. Cor. of land lot No. 79 . . .
land to son, TILMON. To dau. JULIA MANNING and her
children . . . seventy acres of land lot No. 78. . .
To dau. ELIZABETH BARRS and her children . . . the
remainder of lots no. 78 and 79.  to the remainder of
my children I give nothing having already given them
what I consider an equal share.   

Exr. brother, WILLIAM HINSON. (signed)  Elam Hinson
22 November 1871

Wit:  J. R. Nelson; Jas M. Dupree; John N. Jones
(probated) Oct. term 1875

This is the will of Martha Hinson Wall's father,
abstracted by Eleanor D. McSwain in her book,
"Abstracts of Some Documents of Twiggs, County,
Georgia", 1972, page 147: