Wilkes County GaArchives Wills.....Colley, Dempsey C. (Carroll) October 21, 1861
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Marshall Styles marshallstyles@yahoo.com December 19, 2006, 10:04 am

Source: Wilkes County Georgia Will Book Ii, Page 343
Written: October 21, 1861

Georgia, Wilkes County}}
In the name of God Amen. I Demsey C. Colley make this my Last Will & Testament 
revoking all other heretofore made, feeling that I am of sound & disposing 
mind & memory & it being necessary to make some disposition of the property 
with which a Kind Providence has blest me, Knowing the uncertainty of life.

First, I desire that my body shall be buried in a decent & Christian like 
manner suited to my Condition & Circumstances.

Secondly, I desire & direct that all my just debts be paid by my Executor 
hereafter named.

Thirdly I desire that (& direct to be so) all my Estate after the payment of 
my just debts be thrown into my Father’s Estate & become part & parcel of the 
same & subject to his will & in case of his (my Father Francis Colley’s) death 
before my death then to go to my Mother Frances Colley according to my 
Father’s Will.

Fourthly, I hereby constitute & appoint Zebulon D. Colley my Executor. October 
21st 1861
{Signed} D.C. Colley
Signed & Delivered in the presence of Testator & of each other this Oct 21st 
1861
{Signed] M.G. Robert, ?.?. Colley, H.F. Colley
[The second set of initials is so unreadable that a determination of it is not 
possible]


Additional Comments:
Anticipating that he might not return home alive from fighting the Yankees, 
Dempsey Carroll Colley wrote his Last Will and Testament in Wilkes County, 
Georgia, on 21 October 1861.
Dempsey Carroll Colley is son of Francis Colley & Frances Owens. He was killed 
on 13 December 1862 at Fredericksburg Virginia.
Will copied at Wilkes County Courthouse in Washington, September 2006, and 
transcribed, and [annotated] by Marshall Styles.

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/wilkes/wills/colley692wl.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/

File size: 2.3 Kb