Boone County, KY - Wills: Grubbs, James, 1841, Codicil, 1851 Friday, 8 October 1999 Submitted by: lharbing@worldnet.att.net (Buddy & Linda Harbin-Grubbs) ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************ LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF JAMES GRUBBS I James Grubbs of Boone County Kentucky becoming of old age but being of sound mind and health and knowing that death is certain and life uncertain and wishing to dispose of my worldly, property of my own wish and desire, make the following disposition of the same. Item. 1st: It is my will and desire that my wife Patience Grubbs have and enjoy all my personal and real estate after my death so long as she may live, after first paying off all my debts due at the time of my death, which I think will be but few. Item. 2: It is my will and desire that my daughter Elizabeth Houston have and I hereby will unto her and her heirs the farm on which she now resides containing about 73 acres to be used occupied and enjoyed by her and her heirs during her natural life and at her death to be equally divided among her heirs. Item. 3: At the death of my said wife, Patience, It is my will and desire that all the balance of my estate consisting of land, negroes and personal estate be divided among the balance of my children, reserving to the said Elizabeth Houston her equal proportionable pairs of the negroes and personal estate, and the balance of my landed estate among the balance, having given her, her portion of land already. Lastly: I do hereby nominate and appoint Wickliff Grubbs and Jonathan Carpenter Executors of this my last will & testament. In Testimony whereof I have hereinto sat my name and affixed my seal this 4th day of August in this year of Our Lord 1841.John RiddellI. G. Hamilton James Grubbs (seal) Codicil to the above will. I James Grubbs do hereby desire & request that after the distribution of my negroes and personal estate among my heirs as before named that the portion or amount which will fall to my daughter Elizabeth Houston shall be retained and reserved in the hands of my Executor or Executors and paid ???? to my said daughter Elizabeth as her needs and necessities may require they having regard to her need and necessities for the ???? of the same.WitnessJohn Riddell I. G. Hamilton James Grubbs (seal) Further Codicil to the foregoing will, Know all men that I James Grubbs the identical person named in the foregoing will made published and declared on 4th day of August 1841 do hereby will and ???? that in the division of my landed estate the first on Lot Number One be laid off in the mannerfollowing to wit- Beginning at a large elm tree corner to Jeremiah Carpenter thence with his line to a large dead Beech tree another of said Carpenters corners thence a straight line to the Culvert on the Covington & Lexington Turnpike road, thence to the line of William Carpenter and with it to the beginning; such a course as will include in the foregoing boundary thirty acres of land, And I further will order and direct that Lot Number two be laid off in the following manner, Beginning at said Culvert on said road thence with the line of Lot Number One to William Carpenters line thence with his line to Solomon Huffmans Corner thence which said Huffman lives such a distance that a line drawn at right angles or nearly so to said Turnpike road and with it to the beginning will include the quantity of fifty acres, and also to be laid off in such a manner as will included the improvements of my son Wm. Grubbs, and I will and bequeath the said fifty acres of land to my said son William and his heirs and assignees forever as his full portion of my landed estate.In witness whereof I do hereunto set my hand and seal done at Burlington this 16th day of August 1851. Signed sealed published and declared by said James Grubbs as a Codicil to his last will & testament in presence of us:J. Grubbs (seal)E. G. Vawter M. HamiltonBoone County CourtSeptember Term 1855 This writing perporting to be the last will and testament of James Grubbs deceased together with two Codicils thereunto written was produced in Court and approved according to laws by the Oaths of Jo. Riddell, I. G. Hamilton, E. G. Vawter and M. Hamilton subscribed, witnesses thereto, wherefore same are ordered to be recorded as last will and testament and Codicils of said deceased wherefore the same is duly recorded,I. G. Hamilton, Clk. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------