WILL: Head, Joseph David, 1888-89 - Daviess County, Kentucky -------------------------------------------- Contributed for use in USGENWEB Archives by: Rita Mackin Fox Date: May 29, 1999 -------------------------------------------- **************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format or presentation by other organizations or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the file submitter, or his legal representative and then 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. ***************************************************************************** Joseph David HEAD was the son of James Greensbury HEAD and Susannah/Susan EMERSON. Daviess Co. Will Book D, pages 239-40 signed 9 April 1888 proven 21 Jan 1889 I, Joseph D. Head, knowing the uncertainties of Life do make and publish this my last will and testament, whereby I revoke all former wills whatsoever. 1st. I desire all my just debts to be paid. 2nd. All six of my oldest children Susan A., Thos. M., Zack R., Matilda J., Rose E., and Michael I. are married and each one has received from my estate one horse, saddle, and bridle, one cow, one bed, one bedstead, one boalster (sic) and two pillows, two new quilts, two comforts, two good blankets, two new sheets, two pr. Pillow slips, two boalster slips, two towels, two sheep and lams (sic), eight hens, or ($10.00) Ten Dollars in cash in the place of the sheep, lams & hens, Fifty lbs. Beans, five-gal molasses, one pig and ($100.00) one hundred dollars in cash. 3rd. Joseph W., my seventh child, has also received from my estate one horse, saddle & bridle and one hundred dollars in cash. I want him to have the same articles that the others have had when ever he wants them. 4th. Auther (sic) Leo is now the only child I have under age and when he becomes Twenty one years old, I want him to receive from my estate the same amount in cash and every other articles (sic) that the others got, which will make them all equal. 5th. Then I will and Bequeath the Farm on which I live and all my personal effects to my beloved wife Margaret to use & do what ever she pleases with as long as she lives. Anything that I leave on the place, I leave for the use and benefit of her to do as she pleases with. 6th. At her death, I want the farm on which we now live to go to my three youngest boys, Michael I., Joseph Joseph (sic) W., and Auther Leo, and they are to give the Five older children children (sic) Susan A. Carrico, Thos. M. Head, Zack R. Head, Matilda J. Carrico, & Rose E. Jarboe ($1,000.00) one thousand dollars to be equally divided among them the first payment to become due twelve months after the Death of my widow Margaret. The amount to be paid each year is to be $250.00 Two Hundred and Fifth Dollars with interest from the death of my widow Margaret & their (sic) to pay $250.00) Two Hundred & Fifty Dollarseach year afterwards until they pay the Thousand Dollars. 7th. At the time of their mother's death, if the three boys do not want the place at the proposition I have made in the will, the farm and all the effects left on the farm may be sold at public sale and equally divided among the Eight Heirs. 8th. I am at this (time) Guardian for my nephew Joseph T. Hardy and I now leave my wife Margaret to settle with the Court and attend to the matter as I would. 9th. Finally, I hereby appoint and constitute my wife Margaret to be my executor without Bond to forthly carry out the provisions of this my last will and testament, signed, sealed and delivered by me this the 9th day of April 1888. The enterlining was done before signing. (Signed) Joseph D. Head Witness: W. S. Hazel R.H. Medcalf State of Kentucky Daviess County Court. January Term 1889. The foregoing instrument of writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Joseph D. Head deceased was on this day produced to Court and duly proven by the oaths of W.S. Hazel and R.H. Medcalf, the two subscribing witnesses thereto and ordered to record as and for the last will and testament of said decedent, wherefore I have this day recorded it together with this certificate in my office. Witness my hand this the 21st day of January 1889. (Signed) M. S. Mattingly, Clerk [Joseph T. Hardy's parents were Joseph David's sister Mary Emeline and B.J. Hardy. In 1870, Joseph T. was two years old and living with Emerline (sic) Hardy, 25, who ran a boarding house; Nellie E., 7 (from her first marriage to William Brown), and Ignatius Drury (40, a physician). Mary Emeline died at about the age of 27 between August and December 1872.]