Wilkinson-Laurens-Dodge County GaArchives Wills.....Stuckey, Starling September 10 1833
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Source: Wilkinson County Georgia, Book Estate Account 1838-1850, Pages 49, 50.
Written: September 10 1833
Recorded: November 8 1838

"Georgia, Wilkinson County"
I Starling Stuckey of the State and County aforesaid and of sound mind and
memory but being in a low state of health and convinced of the uncertainty of
the tenure of human existence do make this my last will and testament in the
words following to wit:

1st I give and bequeath to my loving and loved wife Mary Stuckey during her
natural life or widowhood except that part hereinafter bequested all of estate
both real and personal to be applied to the support and maintenance of my
children Alexander Stuckey, John Stuckey, Starling Stuckey, Simon Stuckey, Mary
Stuckey, Daniel Stuckey, Allison Stuckey and Howel Stuckey and I hereby appoint
my said wife the guardian of my said children.

2nd It is my will and desire that my gin and such part of my and other
perishable property as my executor shall think proper to dispose of be sold and
the procedes applied to the use and benefit of my said wife and children and to
the payment of my just debts.

3rd If in the excercese of sound discretion my Executor should discover that any
time that any part of my said estate is likely to go to waste through the
mismanagement of my said wife Mary Stuckey it is my will and desire that he take
the said estate into his own management and apply the profits thereof to the
support of said wife and children.

4th If the death of my wife should occur before my youngest son Howel Stuckey
attain to the age of twenty one years, I desire that my executor manage the said
estate to the best advantage until the said Howel Stuckey come of age and in the
event of his death until the next youngest of my said children become of age and
then that the said estate be equally divided between all of my aforesaid
children and Nelson Stuckey my son and Wiley Wammack my son-in-law.

I hereby ___ consitute and appoint my friend Julius N. Porter Executor to this
my last will and testament and revoke any will that I may have heretofore made.
 In testimony whereof I have hereinto set my hand and seal this tenth day of
September in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty-three.
                                     Test his  /S/ Starling Stuckey
Witnesses:
William (x) Norwood
William Fisher   
Thomas M. Tarpley

In Chambers--8th November 1838
Georgia, Wilkinson Couny
Personally came and appear before us William Norwood William Fisher and Thomas 
M. Tarpley and after being sworn and deposeth and sayeth on oath that they and
each of them saw Starling Stuckey sign seal publish the within to be his last
will and testament that he did it freely volentary and without any compulsion
whatever and that he was of sound disposing mind and memory.

Sworn to and subscribed to fore us day and year aforsaid
Merrit Ethredge JJC                    William (x) Norwood
Soloman Arnold JJC                     William Fisher
William Fisher JJC                     Thomas M. Tarpley

Julius N. Porter duly qualified as executor to the said will this the 8th day of
Nov. 1838.
Recorded: by Wm. H. Wright, D.C.C.Oy'"




 



Additional Comments:
Starling Stuckey was born in North Carolina and was the son of Simon Stuckey who
was 100 years of age in the 1850 census.  We cannot verify Mary Stuckey's maiden
name.
Children and their spouses:
1.  Unknown daughter--md. Wiley Wommack  (residence: North Georgia?)
2.  Nelson Stuckey--md. Sabrina (Porter)some researchers used "Chambers." 
         (residence:  Wilkinson County)
3.  Alexander Stuckey--md. Eliza Ann Porter (residence: Wilkinson County)
4.  John Stuckey--md. Amanda Butler (residence: Wilkinson County)
         (John died in Dodge County)
5.  Starling Stuckey (Jr.)--md. Lucy Ann Norwood (residence: Wilkinson County)
6.  Mary Stuckey--md. Sandy Eubanks (could be Tandy Eubanks) and moved to Texas)
7.  Simon Stuckey - no further information - (War Between the States?)
8.  Daniel S(imon)Stuckey--md. Caroline Rogers (residence: Wilkinson County)
9.  Alison Stuckey--md. Mary Ann Thomas (Alison died War Between the States)
10. Howel Stuckey--md. Louisa ____? (finally settled and died in Laurens County)


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