NEWS: Will of M.C. Caudill, 1939, Whitley & Mercer Co. ------------------------------------------------------------ Submitted by Mary Lou Hudson Date: 31 August 2003 ------------------------------------------------------------ Name and date of newspaper article unknown. CADDELL WILL IS LONG DOCUMENT At Termination Of Life Interest Of Heirs, All Estate Goes To Two Baptist Institutions. The will of the late M.C. Caddell is one of the longest probated in the Mercer county court for some time. Howard Waggener, whom the testator terms his "trusted" employee and friend," is devised all crops, livestock, farm implements and machinery on and in connection with his real estate in Mercer county. The rest of the personality is to be converted into cash to pay inheritance tax and debts. A brother, William Caddell, is left 200 (?) acres for life, the front part with improvements of what is known as the former John Nooe farm on the Dix river road, and at his death the property passes to his two daughters jointly for life. All real estate in McCreary and Whitley counties owned by the testator, is left absolutely to his nephew, Alfred Smith Caddell, who also inherits all his Kentucky Utilities stock. All read estate owned in Mercer is devised to Howard Waggener "for his natural life, or until 1962, whichever is shorter." He is to keep up all properties in their present condition, pay taxes, repairs, replace damages and keep the land built up by rotation of crops, and this also includes the farm devised to William Caddell and daughters. There are a number of other provisions in the will, which a codicil revokes. This codicil names the Citizens Bank and Trust Company as administrator. After the termination of all life interest and of the heirs and claims of Waggener, the administrator is directed by the codicil to convert all properties of whatever nature into cash and divide it equally between the Kentucky Baptist children’s Home at Glendale and the Baptist Clear Creek Mountain Preachers School, the fund to be distributed by the Southern Baptist "gifts from Marshall Crittenden Caddell." NOTE: The will and codicil are both dated June 1, 1939. ************************************************************************* USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and 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. **************************************************************************