UPSON COUNTY, GA - John T. McKenney Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Lisa Graham Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm Will of John T. McKenney, deceased Clerk Office Court Ordinary Upson County hereby is recorded; Book of 'Will', Page 263, This 7th day March 1864 Wm. A. Cobb Clerk Georgia Upson County In the name of God Amen. I John T. McKenney of said State & County, being in bad health & deeming it right & proper both as respects myself & family that I should make a disposition of the property with which a kind providence has blessed me, I therefore make this my Last Will & Testament, hereby revoking all others heretofore made, Item the 1st, I desire & direct that all my body be buried in a decent & Christian manner suitable to my circumstances & conditions, My Soul I trust to God who gave it. Item 2nd, I desire & Direct that if my Executor sees proper that my Negroes be sold & after paying my debts including that which I am Guardian for my two oldest children, that six hundred dollars each be given to my wife & youngest child William David & the remainder be equally divided between all my Children. Item 3rd I desire & direct that one bed & mattress, four quills & three apiece be given each to my 2 oldest Children. Item 4th I desire & Direct that the remainder of my property including household & kitchen furniture be kept together for the use of my family. Petition of John M. Starling to prove Will of John T. McKenney, Deceased Entered on Minutes Court of Ordinary March Term 1864 Georgia, Upson Co. To the Court of Ordinary of Said County. The petition of John W. Sterling respectfully sheweth that John T. McKenney, late of said County, deceased, while in life, to wit, about the 2nd day of February 1864 signed, sealed & declared an instrument in writing in the presence of Edwin G. Hutchinson, John C. Zorn & John W. Starling who subscribed the same as witnesses as his last will & testament, in which your petitioner is nominated sole executor, wherefore your petitioner comes now to Court & propounds for probate & record said instrument and pray leave of this Court to prove the same in common form of law as the true last will & testament of said deceased and that he may be qualified as executor aforesaid & that letters testamentary may be granted to him in the premises. March 1864 John W. Starling