WILL: Mrs. Kate Newkirk, 1898, Bullitt Co., KY ********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net Transcribed by: bobndonnaky@alltel.net Date: 09 Oct 2000 *********************************************************************** Bullitt County Will Book "J" pp. 255-257 September 1st, 1898 Being of sound mind, I will write my last will. First - I command my spirit to God, the giver of all Blessings. 2nd - I wish my land in Texas, Denton County to be sold, and the proceeds to be divided into 3 three equal parts or parts (* my note-- that's exactly how it's written) one share to my daughter Bettie JONES - one to my son Adam SETTLE and one to my grandson Jimmie SHANKLIN. 3rd - I will my house and lot opposite the Hotel to my grandson Jimmie SHANKLIN, next door to Masonic Hall. 4th - I wish the hotel that I now live in to be sold and the proceeds to be equally divided between my daughter Betty JONES, and my son Adam SETTLE, also eleven acres of land on the Turnpike joining Mrs. Mary CLARK - it is to be sold and the money to be divided between my daughter Bettie JONES and my son Adam SETTLE. 5th - I will my son Adam SETTLE two sets of furniture - two feather beds, bed clothing, three blankets, six comforts, four spreads, eight sheets, pillow cases, three table linens, all the towels, all the china and glassware, dinner set, also the silver caster pitcher and the silver spoons, cook stove and vessels, two carpets, twelve chairs, lamps, tables, sewing machine, knives and forks, two horses and buggy. I will my grandson Walter JONES my gold watch - I will my grandson Karl JONES twenty five dollars to be put on interest until he is nineteen years old, to get him a watch. Also Thomas Edwin JONES twenty five dollars to be put on interest till he is nineteen years old to get him a watch. I will silver pickle caster to Carl JONES, silver waiter to Thomas Edwin JONES. I will my daughter Bettie JONES the table in parlour, the piano and organ. Bettie is also (p.256) to have 4 good comforts. I set her up to housekeep for her self - The balance of m things are to be sold, and the money equally divided between Bettie JONES and Adam SETTLE. If my son Adam SETTLE is not willing to abide by this will, if he contends for the Texas land, he is not to have any share of the property in Kentucky in no way - no household or kitchen furniture or anything I have mentioned for him. everything is to go to my daughter Bettie JONES. If she gets more than my son Adam, or when they are made equal, what ever is over must be divided. If there is not enough to make them equal, after my funeral expenses are paid, out of my Texas rent, and all of my indebtedness, Bettie JONES must have the balance of the payments of the house I sold to Coley MUDD which will be due in the spring of March 1900 if there is more than enough to make the equal, it is to be divided between them, my daughter Bettie JONES and Adam SETTLE. I will Reuben SETTLE my grandson twenty five dollars to be put on interest until he is nineteen years old, April 14, 1899. I will my granddaughter Katherine JONES twenty-five dollars put on interest until she is sixteen years old - my granddaughter Amanda SHANKLIN twenty five dollars until she is sixteen years old. I owned six hundred and forty acres of land in Texas. My son-in-law John SHANKLIN all except 288. He gave me one third of the money, he kept two thirds. I kept two thirds of 288, my grandson Jim SHANKLIN one third. If Jimmie SHANKLIN don't abide by my will, his daughter Amanda SHANKLIN is not to have the twenty five dollars I propose to give her. I appoint Thomas J. JONES and my son Adam SETTLE my Administrators. Mrs. Kate NEWKIRK W. W. COLEMAN Sallie A. DAVIDSON State of KENTUCKY Bullitt County set, I, W. B. Tilden, Clerk of the Bullitt County Court, in the State aforesaid, certify that the foregoing Instrument of writing was on July 10, 1899 produced in Open Court and proved by the Oath of W. W. Coleman to have been signed and acknowledged in his presence and in the presence of Sallie A. Davidson by Mrs Kate Newkirk to be her last Will and Testament - that they attested same at her request in her presence and in the presence of each other - the signature of Sallie A. Davidson was proved to be her genuine signature - full capacity of mind of said testator at the time of making said Will was also proved, and same being fully proved as required by law was admitted to probate and ordered to be recorded as the last Will and Testament of Kate Newkirk, which with this certificate I have truly reocrded in my office this 13th day of July, 1899. Signed: W. B. Tilden, Clerk