Will of Ambrose Tombs 1857 :McCracken County, Kentucky

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Submitted by: Cindy Clowe Lacy celacy @aol.com
Date: August 9, 2002
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Will of Ambrose Tombs

This last will and testament of Ambrose Tombs of McCracken County Kentucky
who being of sound and disposing mind and memory but old and infirm in body
and anxious of providing for himself and his wife Sarah during their natural
life a comfortable home and support and Pretilla Fiest and her husband
Anthony Fiest and Finetta Tanner and her husband Elias Tanner having agreed
with said Ambrose Tombs that they will during the life of said Tombs and his
wife Sarah furnish each of them with a suitable and comfortable support and
maintenance and a home. The said Ambrose Tombs do hereby for the
consideration aforesaid give and divide to them my said two daughters and
their said two husbands all my real and personal estate of every kind,
quality and determination to be equally divided between them including my
land in McCracken County being 240 acres of the S.W and NW quarters of
Section 29 Township ____ 1 West and then ½ of NE quarter of Section 29
township C. Runge 1 East hereby revoking all former wills and testaments and
I do appoint my said son in law Anthony Fiest and Elias Tanner my executors
to this will. In testimony whereby I have hereto set my hand and seal this
21st day of Dec in the year of 1846.

Ambrose Tombs

Witnesses: Able Morgan, Eli Guither, and Rodney Cane.

Produced in court and proven 13 Jan 1857 in Paducah.