WILL: Samuel Evans, 1849, Bullitt County, KY

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Transcribed by: Anne  Livingston - Livings1@aol.com
Date:  18 Dec 1999 
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Bullitt County Will Book D p. 214
I Samuel EVANS of the County of Bullitt and State of Kentucky being of sound 
mind and disposing memory make this my last will and Testament in manner 
following.

Viz: After my Just Debts and Burial expenses are paid I give and bequeath to 
my wife Elpha EVANS the farm on which I now live with the appurtenances, live 
stock, farming utinsels, household and kitchen furniture during her natural 
life, also a negro man named Alfred and a negro woman named Mary with the 
expectation and desire on my part that my son William EVANS take charge of my 
wife and the farm stock and negroes and as a compensation for taking care of 
his mother he is to have the benefit resulting from this bequest whatever may 
be that benefit over and above that which may be necessary for her my said 
wife's support and comfort and convenience.

2nd I give and bequeath to my daughter Catherine SAUNDERS a lot of Land 
adjoining the town of Mount Washington in the County aforesaid and lying 
between the Louisville and Bardstown Turnpike road and mans lick road and on 
which  my son-in-law Nathaniel P. SAUNDERS now lives supposed to be twenty 
five acres more or less.  The said Lot is not included in the bequest to my 
wife.

3rd After the decease of my wife my will is that the balance of the tract of 
land excluding the Lot bequeathed to my Daughter Catharine SAUNDERS be 
divided according to quantity and quality between my son William EVANS and my 
daughter Mary Alcinda MARSHALL and it is my will that my Executors hereafter 
named select three disinterested men who shall value the lands allotted to 
each of my children and should the portions allotted to Catharine SAUNDERS be 
valued to more than the portion allotted to my son William or to more than 
the portion allotted to my daughter Mary Alcinda MARSHALL my said daughter 
SAUNDERS is to pay as much over to them as to make all their portions of land 
Equal value and should Catharine SAUNDERS lot be valued to a less value than 
each of the other two portions the same rules it to be adopted so as to make 
them equal.

My will further is having some one hundred and thirty dollars cash on hand 
and cash notes to the amount of about three hundred dollars that the money be 
put on interest until the decease of my wife and then said money to be 
equally divided among my three children hereafter named.  My Lots in Mount 
Washington one of which has a tenement on it I desire shall not be sold until 
after the decease of my wife, and the tenement rented out for the best price 
it will command and the amount thereof equally divided among my children.  
After the estate of my wife my will is that all my estate of whatsoever it 
may be not herein specially bequeathed be sold and the proceeds equally 
divided among my children heretofore named except an old negro woman which I 
leave in charge to be take care of by my children she is to live ...  ( 
sentence that follow that I could not make out). Mentions Grand Son Samuel E. 
EVANS, son of William EVANS who shall have one hundred dollars at the decease 
of my wife and thereby appoints William THURMAN and Walter SPARKS Executors 
of this my last will and testament.  In Witness whereof I have set my name 
and affix my seal this 22 day of September 1849.

(signed)
Saml. EVANS

Witnessed by Robert GAILBREATH and Thompson BELL

Recorded 19 November 1849 Bullitt County KY Court