WILLS: Robert E. Patrick, 1895, Daviess Co., Kentucky -------------------------------------------- Contributed for use in USGENWEB Archives by: Harold Bishop Morgan hmorgan@evansville.net Date: May 24, 2001 2:01 PM -------------------------------------------- **************************************************************************** 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. ***************************************************************************** Transcribed by Harold Bishop Morgan Will of Robert E Patrick Daviess County, Kentucky I, Robert E. Patrick of sound mind and disposing memory do hereby make this my Last Will and Testament. 1st I will all my property real, personal and mixed to my son W. T. Patrick after paying all my debts and funeral expenses provided he shall pay to each of my daughters, to wit: Maggie Bishop, Cora Jessie, Mollie Ayers, Minnie Patrick, Fannie Patrick, Annie Patrick, Lavenia Patrick one hundred dollars. If any of my said daughters shall be dead at my death then one hundred dollars shall be paid to her bodily heirs, if any, if none, the one hundred dollars shall belong to said W. T. Patrick. 2nd If my beloved wife shall survive me I wish and desire my property be kept together just as it is until her death or marriage my son W. T. to stay with the family and manage the Estate to the best possible advantage until her death or marriage where the property shall pass on as in item one. 3rd If my son shall die without bodily heirs, his share of my Estate shall go to his surviving sisters or to their bodily heirs of any shall be dead leaving bodily heirs. I hereby appoint my said son W. T. Patrick Executor to carry out the provisions of this my Last Will and Testament. Robert E. Patrick Witness: L. D. Seuist? A. E. Davenport Owensboro, Kentucky, March 28, 1895 State of Kentucky At a County Court held for Daviess County at the Court House in the City of Owensboro on the 17th day of October 1904. The forgoing instrument of writing purporting to be the Last Will and Testament of Robert E. Patrick deceased late of this county was produced in court and it appearing that the two attesting witnesses L. D. Seuist and A. E. Davenport are nonresidents of this state. The said L. D. Seuist residing at Kansas City, Missouri and said A. E. Davenport residing at Chattanooga, Tennessee. A commission was directed to find any person authorized to take depositions to take the depositions of the said attesting witnesses upon interrogatories duly sworn and the depositions of the said attesting witnesses were duly taken and returned to this Court and at a regular term of the county Court afore said held at the Court House in the City of Owensboro on Monday November 21st 1904 the said meeting again coming in to be heard and the Court having heard the deposition aforesaid and being sufficiently direct? it is adjudged to the Court that said meeting be one and the same is hereby established to be the Last Will and Testament of said Robert E. Patrick deceased and ordered to record and is recorded in my office as Clerk of said Court. Attest: J. C. Griffith, Clerk By Jas H. Taylor, D. C.