WILL: Rainwater, James (1862) - Pulaski County, Kentucky
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Submitted by Susan Chance-Rainwater, scr@ncc.com
Date: 13 May 1999
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SURNAMES: Isabell, Rainwater, Seivers


The Will of James Rainwater
Filed 1862  Pulaski County, Kentucky
Book 6 Page 115

I, James Rainwater of the County of Pulaski and State of Kentucky do make this 
my last will and testament.  I give to my beloved wife, Mary, all my household 
and kitchen furniture, and all my stock of every description which I may own at 
the time of my death.  Also the use and occupation of my farm during the time 
she remains my widow, but if my said wife should marry after my death, she is 
only to have what the statute law of Kentucky provides for widows.  I also 
freely empower my wife to sell any of my stocks she may think to be a surplus, 
either privately or publically, and loan out the proceeds thereof and the 
occurring interest thereon she may use for the maintenance of her and my infant 
children.  Likewise, if she should use any of the principal in case of necessity, 
she is not to be accountable thereafter.  I also request my wife to collect 
all my bonds and notes in hand, and dispose of the money in the same manner 
that of the proceeds of the sale. 

I likewise request my wife to give to each of my five infant children: Mary, 
Sarah, Amanda, Samantha and Alethia whenever they may have come of age: one 
feather bed and bed stead, one colt, one cow, two head of sheep and one cow to 
be as near of equal value as possible.  And at the death of my wife, I wish my 
executors to make sale and conveyance of my land and to expose to sale to the 
highest bidder all my property, to collect all my debts and distribute the 
proceeds equally among my children who may survive me, and to the children or 
heirs of such of my children as may not survive me, to be paid to the 
[unreadable] the same amounts and proportions that their parents would have 
been entitled to receive had they or either of them been living at the time of 
said distribution. 

And lastly I appoint my sons, William H. Rainwater and Enoch Rainwater, 
executors of this my last will and testament.  In testimony whereof I have 
hereunto set my hand this  8th day of March 1859.

James Rainwater

Attested: E.J. Seivers, Isaac Isabell


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