WILL: Weddle, John Milton (1842) - Pulaski Co, KY
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Submitted by: Susan Chance-Rainwater, scr@ncc.com
Date: 12 Oct 1998
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SURNAMES: CORNELL, EASTHAM, DUCK, McDANIEL


Book 3 Page 556

In the name of God, Amen.  I John Weddle of the county of Pulaski being sick 
and weak in body but of sound mind and disposing memory and calling to mind 
the uncertainty of human life and being desirous to dispose of all such worldly 
estate as it hath pleased God to bless me with, do hereby make my last will 
and testament in manner and form following - that is to say:

First - I give and bequeath unto my wife Polly Weddle all my estate both real 
and personal, to use, live on and dispose of as she may think proper for during 
her natural life, and I do hereby request that my said wife Polly Weddle be and 
she is hereby empowered to collect all my credits of all and every kind, and to 
have, keep and use the same as she may think proper.

Second - I desire that my son Galen have a(n) equal or proportional part with 
he balance of my sons - that is to make him equal with them in what they have 
heretofore received.

Thirdly - I desire that at the death of my said wife, all my estate both real 
and personal which may remain shall be sold and the proceeds of the same to be 
divided among my several children as follows:  I give to my two daughters 
Margaret and Polly fifty dollars each over and above my other heirs and the 
balance on the remaining part after the said $100 to be equally divided among 
my several children hereinafter married.  To wit, Spencer Weddle, John M. 
Weddle, Margaret Cornell, George Weddle, William Weddle, Daniel Weddle, James 
Weddle, Solomon Weddle, Polly Eastham and Galen Weddle to have and enjoy, them 
and their heirs forever.  And lastly, I do hereby constitute and appoint my 
friends executors of this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all 
other former wills or testaments by me heretofore made.  In writing whereof I 
have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 23rd day of June 1842.

Signed, sealed, published and declared as and for this last will and testament 
of John Weddle in the presence of us:
J.W. Duck
William Weddle
John McDaniel

Kentucky Pulaski County Seat
At a County Court held for Pulaski County at the courthouse in the town of 
Somerset on Monday the 19th day of September 1842.  This writing purporting to 
be the last will and testament of John Weddle deceased was surrendered to the 
court and proven by the oaths of Josiah W. Duck and William Weddle to be the 
last will and testament of John Weddle and ordered to be recorded.  And the 
same is done accordingly.

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