The Will of C. M. Click
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In The Matter of the Estate of C. M. Click, Deceased

Order

This day came L. N. Click and produced the purported copy of the Last Will and Testament of C.
M. Click, deceased, and it appearing to the Court that the said C. M. Click owned certain land
located in Elliott County, KY, and it appearing from the oral testimony of L. N. Click, Maude
Click and Pauline Click Redwine that the instrument offered in probate as a copy of the Last
Will and Testament of C. M. Click is a true copy of same, and upon examination by the Court
and found to be in proper form and order, in accordance with the provisions of the laws of the
State of Kentucky, as made as and provided and applicable thereto it is now ordered and decreed
that the said copy of th Last Will and Testament of C. M. Click so offered for probate is so
adjudged, admitted to probate and ordered recorded upon the records of Wills of this Court, as
follows:

     I, Chas. M. Click, being of sound mind, knowing the certainty of death and the
uncertainty of life, do make this my last Will and Testament: I give to my three grandchildren,
Thelma Click Duvall, Lonnie Milton Click and Pauline Click, all of my real estate I own at my
death, but my wife, Genoa Click, is to have a widow's dower of $1,000.00 in my real estate
during her natural life, or so long as she remains my widow, and at my widow's death or if she
remarries the life dower of real estate laid off to her I gave to Lonnie Milton Click, and he is to
pay Thelma C. Duvall and Pauline Click $200.00 each.
     I give to Lonnie M. Click all of my blacksmith tools, but my Widow, Genoa Click, is to
have the right to do her shop work with them.
     Oscar Click owes me some notes of $100.00 each.  One of these notes of $100.00 and
interest I want used to repair my dwelling house, and one of these notes of $100.00 and interest I
want a monument bought for myself and my deceased son, Ralph Click.
     This October 17, 1938.        s/ C. M. Click
Attesting witnesses:                    s/ Harve Nealis
                              s/ Elmer Horton

     It further appearing from the oral testimony that, by an order of the Elliott Circuit Court
dated March 5, 1940, Hon. R. C. Littleton, Judge, the following described tract f land was laid
off to Genoa Click as her widow's dower, and at her death it passed to L. M. Click under the said
Will.

     A certain tract or parcel of land lying and being in Elliott County, Kentucky, on the
waters of South Ruin Creek, a tributary of Little Sandy River, and more particularly described as
follows, to-wit: BEGINNING on South Ruin Creek at the mouth of the second hollow below
Oscar Click's line: thence north forty-four feet to South Ruin Road: thence ten degrees south of
east Four hundred, ninety-five feet to beginning of Carl Redwine's and Pauline Redwine's line;
thence twelve degrees east of north four hundred, fifty-one feet with said Redwine's line; thence
ten degrees south of east four hundred, thirteen feet running with said L. M. click' line to Maude
Click's line on the east; thence ten degrees east of south with Maude Click's line seven hundred,
one feet to South Ruin Creek; thence up south Ruin Creek to the beginning containing ten acres,
more of less.

     The Court takes Judicial Notice of the fact that the Elliott county Courthouse did burn on
or about Dec 19, 1957, and that the record of Wills was this destroyed, and the Clerk of this
Court is directed to record a copy of this Order upon the records of Wills so that the chain of
title of L. M. click to the property herein described may be perfected.
     This 29th day of march, 1958.
               s/ David L. Davis
               Judge, Elliott County Court

State of Kentucky)   Sct.
County of Elliott  )
     I, Estill Hutchinson, County Court Clerk in and for the County and State aforesaid,
certify that the foregoing writing having been presented to the Elliott County Court as a copy of
the Last Will and Testament of C. M. Click and the Court.......

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