Warren County GaArchives Wills.....Wheeler, Isham 1839
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Source: Will Book 97-98
Written: 1839

WILL OF ISHAM WHEELER
 
I Isham Wheeler of the State of Georgia, and county of Warren do make and
publish This my last will and Testament and first I resign my Soul and body to
God who gave them my body to be decently buried in The burying ground on the
premises on which I now live and as such worldly estate as which pleased God to
intrust me with. I dispose of the same, as follows, First I direct that all my
past debts and funeral expenses be paid as soon my decease as possible out of
the first monies that shall come into the hands of my executors from any portion
of my estate real or personal and whereas my son John Wheeler has had one
hundred dollars in worth & one feather bed & furniture & the worth of two cows.
David Evans has had the same amount of my estate and Hugh Evans has also had the
same except ten dollars which Sum of Ten dollars I wish made up to the said Hugh
Evans, my Son in law which will make John Wheeler my son, David & Hugh Evans
both my Son in laws equal in the first portion of the dividend of my estate and
whereas my wife Edy Wheeler David Wheeler, my son Dilly & Mary Wheeler my
daughters has not had the before mentioned hundred dollars bed & furniture & two
cows, I hereby request & command my executor next after paying my debts &
funeral expenses to pay over to Edy Wheeler my wife David Wheeler my son & Dilly
and Mary Wheeler my daughter one hundred dollars, one feather bed & furniture &
two cows or The worth of two cows, this amount to be paid each of them before
named Edy, David, Dilly & Mary before John Wheeler D & H Evans receives any
more. The balance of my personal property I wish Sold & the money equally
divided Share & share amongst my wife & children. And as to the real estate that
I am now possessed of I direct & request my executor to run & survey one hundred
acres of land to John Wheeler the same to include the east end of my land
adjoining land with John Adkins the dividing line to run Straight from Side to
Side so as to include the premises Whereon Said John Wheeler now lives The same
to be John Wheeler’s portion of my land forever.
I also gave David Wheeler my Son one hundred acres of land adjoining lands of
Hugh Montgomery & Samuel Story, big brier creek being The line on the South side
by the Same more or less Known by the name of the David Wheeler place as his
Share of my land forever.
The balance except three acres whereon my Sisters now live namely Sarah &
Elizabeth Wheeler including the house they live in Which Said three acres they
are to use their lifetime and at their death to return to the original tract and
owner or owners of the same.
I give to my wife during her natural life & at the death of Edy Wheeler my wife
my four daughters and their legal representatives namely Sarah Evans, the wife
of David Evans, Elizabeth Evans the wife of Hugh Evans, Dilly Wheeler & Mary
Wheeler to enter into & possess the Same forever.
And I do hereby make and ordain my brother in law Jesse Evans, Executor of this
my last Will and Testament in witness thereof I Isham Wheeler The Testator have
to This my will written on one Sheet of paper Set my hand and Seal this Third
day of December, in The year of our Lord, one Thousand eight hundred and
thirty-nine (1839)
Isham (his mark) Wheeler
Test
Hugh Montgomery
Benjamin Brooks
James Montgomery
____________________________________________
Warren County Georgia
You, Hugh Montgomery, Benjamin Brooks & james Montgomery do Swear that you Saw
Isham Wheeler, Sign, Seal, publish and declare the within instrument of writing
to be and contain his last Will and Testament and that at the time Thereof he
was of Sound and disposing mind and memory and that he did it freely without
compulsion to the best of your knowledge.
So help you God.
(sign’d) Hugh Montgomery
Benjamin Brooks
James Montgomery
 
Sworn to & subscribed in open Court.
January 6, 1840
ATTEST
Patrick N. Maddox, c.c.o.
Recorded January 18, 1840
P.N. Maddox cl"k
 
From Administration of Estates and Wills (1798-1852
Main Author Georgia Court of Ordinary (Warren Co)
FHL US/CAN Film 
219573 
pp. 97-98


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