WILL: William McMillen, 1820, Hardin Co. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Submitted by Sheila Gatlin, Email Registry ID# Date: 5 Feb 2003 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ************************************* 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. ************************************* Surnames: McMILLEN/McMULLEN/McMILLAN, HILL, UMPHERS/HUMPHRIES, STADER Hardin County Will Book D, Page 13 1820-1822 In the Name of God and agreeable to to My own will and Consent and being at the present time in my right Mind __ I do hereby signify and Constitute this my last Will and testament revoking and disannuling all former Wills __ In the first place I do bequeath to my belved Wife Sophia McMULLEN, one third of my real and personal estate the land to be so divided that she Shall have the house and a sufficency of clened ground for her use where we now resid this part she is to have and to hold foreve and at or before her decease Can dispose of it to whom she pleases in the next place I do wish all the remander of my estate to be equally divided between the whole of of my children male and female so that each may have an equal proportion and it is further my wish that there shall be no sale of my estate unless it be by the consent of my wife & all my children I further wish that sum judicious person be appointed by the consent of the parties or if they cannot agree that the County Court appoint them to divide my estate agreeable to my will and I further wish for those appointed to divide my estate shall compensate those who are now... (too dark to read)... me and are laboring for me who are above age___I do further nominate and appoint my two sons Adrew McMILLAN & (inserted) (William McMILLAN my executors in Testimony) Whereof I do hereunto afix my hand & Seal this 18th day of April 1820 William(his X mark)McMILLEN Test Test John HILL Joseph UMPHERS Peter STADER At a County Court began and held for Hardin County at the Court house in Elizabeth on Monday the 4th day of February 1822 the within instrument of writing purporting to be the last will & testament of William McMILLEN deceased was produced in Court and proven by oath of John HILL a Subscribing Witness thereto and laid over for further proof. And at a Court began & held in the County aforesaid on Monday the 6th day of May 1822 the Same was fully proven by the oath of Joseph HUMPHRIES an other subscribing witness thereto and the ...................... (did not fit on page) Sheila's note: (Transcribed by Sheila Gatlin from a printout of microfilm at Elizabethtown Community College. I kept the spelling errors and repeated words as they were on the copy. The lower right side was shadowy and difficult to make out.)