Ballard County KyArchives Wills.....Reeves, Sidney Preston November 30, 1881
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Source: Original Probate Records Online At Family Search
Written: November 30, 1881
Recorded: October 1882

Ballard County, Kentucky
Will Book A, Pgs 60 & 61

I, Sidney Preston Reeves of Ballard County, Kentucky do make and ordain this my 
last will & Testament hereby revoking all others made by me.  1st I desire that 
after my death my body be buried in a Christian like manner.  2nd I desire that 
all my just debts be paid.  3rd I give to my beloved wife Pollina Ann Reeves my 
farm & homestead on which we now reside containing one hundred & twenty five 
acres of land to be laid off the North end of my tract of land including the 
improvements during her natural life.  4th provided my youngest son David Walter 
Reeves lives with me during my natural life then at my death I give to him all of 
my personal property after my just debts all paid provided further that if I 
should die before my wife Pollina Ann Reeves if my son David Walter Reeves lives 
with and takes care of his mother Pollina Ann Reeves during her natural life then 
at her death in addition to the personal property heretofore given him I give him 
the said David Walter Reeves the homestead containing one hundred & twenty five 
acres of land heretofore devised to my wife Pollina Ann Reeves during her natural 
life.  5th I give to my son Sidney Preston Reeves one hundred & twenty five acres 
of land to be laid off on the South end of the tract of land on which I now 
reside.  6th I give to Daughter Elizabeth Cherry formerly Reeves one horse in 
addition to the cow & calf heretofore given her.  7th I give to my son Charles 
Curtice Reeves Seventy five acres of land lying West of my homestead it being the 
same that I have heretofore conveyed to him by Deed.  8th I give to my Daughter 
Lurania Hawes formerly Reeves One Sorrel mare one cow & calf the Same I delivered 
her the possession was shortly after her intermarriage with John Hawes her 
husband.  9th I give to my Daughter Louisa Cull formerly Reeves in addition to 
the forty acres of land on which she now resides ten acres of land joining her 
land on the South making it all fifty acres.  10th I give to my son William 
Jerome Reeves one hundred acres of land it being the same that I have heretofore 
conveyed to him by Deed.  11th I give to my son George Adam Reeves one hundred 
acres of land it being the same that I have heretofore conveyed to him by Deed.  
Written in my presents, read to me in the presence of the Subscribing witnesses 
and signed by me this November 30th 1881.

						S. P. Reeves
Attest:
Wm. J. Puckett
A.  Jones

State of Kentucky )
Ballard County )

I, Jas Fisher, Clerk of the County Court of County and State aforesaid do certify 
the foregoing will of Sidney P. Reeves was on the 16th day of Oct. 1882 Probated 
filed & ordered Recorded and the same with this certificate has been duly 
Recorded in my office.  Witness my hand this the 8th day of Dec. 1882.
						Jas Fisher CBCC


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