Boone County, KY - Wills:  Sandford, Benjamin, 1867

Wednesday, April 26, 2000



Submitted by:  lharbing@worldnet.att.net  (Buddy & Linda Harbin-Grubbs)

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Boone County, Kentucky, Will Book I, pg. 438-439:



I Benjamin Sandford a citizen of Burlington, Kentucky of feeble bodily health but of disposing 

mind and memory make and publish this my only last will.

After the payment of all my just debts I give devise and bequeath all my real and personal

property of every description to my beloved wife Elizabeth Sandford for and during her natural 

life and after her death all my estate to be equally divided among all my children.  If my said 

wife should at any time desire to sell any or all the property hereby and herein devised to her 

in aforesaid with the view of moving elsewhere my Executor herein after named is hereby 

authorized and empowered at her request to sell and convey any or all of my said property and 

invest these proceeds in an other house & lot or a farm for my said wife who will take the same 

during her natural life and after her death to be divided among all my children.

I hereby appoint my son John Sandford Executor of this my last will who I trust will see it 

faithfully executed.

In witness I have hereto subscribed my name this 19th day of Oct. 1867.

    Benjamin Sandford

Attest,   J. W. Calvert  Arthur Blythe

 

State of Kentucky

 Boone County Court Nov. 2nd 1867

An instrument of writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Benjamin Sandford decd 

was this day produced in Court and fully proven by oath of Arthur Blythe a subscribing witness 

thereto as was also the attestation of J. W. Calver the other subscribing witness, that the same 

was signed by the testator and said witnesses in the presence of each other----whereupon said 

instrument of writing was  ordered to be recorded as and for the last will and testament of 

Benjamin Sandford decd. The same is with the foregoing transcript and this certificate duly 

recorded in my office.

Att: A. B. Parker, CLK

 

Buddy & Linda Harbin Grubbs

lharbing@worldnet.att.net

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