Will: Ward, John C. 1919
Martin County, Kentucky
Will book 1  Page 178

          LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF JOHN C. WARD.

     I, John C. Ward of Inez, Martin County, Kentucky, being in feble health but
     of sound mind and memory, make, publish and declare this to be my LAST WILL
     AND TESTAMENT, to wit:
     FIRST:   All my just debts and funeral expenses shall first be duly paid.
     SECOND:  I gave, devise and bequeath all the rest, residue and remainder
of my estate both real and personal to my beloved wife, Mary Ward, to have and
to hold to her, my said wife and assigns forever.
     THIRD:   I nominate and appoint my said wife, Mary Ward, to be the
executrix of this my last will and Testament.
     FOURTH:   My said executrix shall have full power, right and authority to
receive and receipt for all outstanding debts, rents, interest or other thing
that might be due me outstanding or due to my estate.  (This will is not go to
record untill J. C. Ward death)
     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the 20th day of
December, A.D. 1919.
                                           John C. Ward
                                                        SEAL

     SIGNED, SEALED, PUBLISHED and declared as and for the LAST WILL AND
     TESTAMENT by the above named TESTATORin our presence, who having at his
     request and in his presence aned in the presence of each other, signed our
     names as witnesses thereto.                   THIS DECEMBER 20th, 1919.

                                                   WITNESSES:
                                                             U.G. Johnson.
                                                             J.S. Cassady.
                                      MARTIN COUNTY COURT.
                           February Term, February 9th, 1920.
        At a county court began and held in and for the county of Martin at the
Court House in, the town of Eden on Monday, Feb. 9th, 1920, the regular Judge,
Hon. L.F. Aldrodge presiding.
     An instrument of writing purporting to be the last will and Testament of
John C. Ward, deceased, was produced and filed in open court, and the execution
of said instrument was proven in open court the oath of J.S. Cassady one of
the attesting witnesses, who after being duly sworn stated that the said
testator John C. Ward, signed sealed and delivered the said instrument to be
his last will and testament in his presence and in the presence of U.G. Johnson
the other subscribing witness; that he and U.G. Johnson the other subscribing
witness signed said writing in the presence ot the testator, John C. Ward, and
in the presence of each other, and that said witness signed same at the request
of the testator.
     WHEREUPON it is ordered and adjudged by the court that said instrument is
the LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT of John C. Ward, deceased, and the same is herby
admited to probate as a will of real and personal property and is ordered to
be recorded, which accordingly is hereby done.
     Witness my hand this February 12th, A.D. 1920.

                                J.S. Cassady
                                     Clerk.
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