WILL: Sarah Johnson , 1884, Bullitt Co., KY

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Transcribed by: bobndonnaky@alltel.net
Date:  17 Sept 2000
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Will Book J pp 74-75.

I, Sarah JOHNSON of the County of Bullitt and State of Kentucky, do make and publish my 
last will and testament as follows

The lot of ground on which I now live and lying in or near the town of Shepherdsville, 
Kentucky and the same purchased by me of Wesley PHELPS and Wife, I will and devise as 
follows, to wit: 

To Lucinda BRISCOE my sister, I devise the eastern end of said lot running west 125 feet 
including the house. The remainder of said lot I will and devise in equal parts to my sister 
Evaline SIMMONS, to my brother Charles SWEARANGEN, to my sister Bettie JONES, and to my 
sister Jane VOWELS.

Bettie JONES is to have the lot lying next to and adjoining the lot herein before devised to 
Lucinda BRISCOE, and Charles SWEARANGEN is to have the lot next to Bettie JONES and Emaline 
SIMMONS is to have the lot next to Chas. SWEARANGEN and Jane VOWELS is the lot next to 
Emaline SIMMONS. 

Witness my hand this 7th day of June 1884.
Sarah JOHNSON (her mark) 
attest. JF COMBS
          EW HALL
State of Kentucky
County of Bullitt.....Set

I , E. W. HALL Clerk of the Bullitt County Court in the State of Kentucky certify that on 
the first day of September 1884 the foregoing last will and testament of Sarah JOHNSON (Col) 
was presented in open court and was proved by the oaths of JF COMBS and EW HALL subscribing 
wittnesses thereto to have been signed, acknowledged and delivered in their presence by said 
Sarah Johnson to be her last will and testament and they attested same in her presence at 
her request and in the presence of each other, and that she was of sound mind and memory at 
the time of executing same, and it being fully proved as required by law was ordered to be 
recorded and that I have truly recorded it with this certificate in my office this the 22nd 
of September, 1884.
EW HALL, Clerk