Kent County MD Archives Wills.....Thomas KELLEY, August 24, 1881
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Source: Kent County Wills
Written: August 24, 1881

Last Will & Testament of Thomas Kelley 1881

In the name of God Amen, I Thomas Kelley of Kent County, in the State of 
Maryland, being in feeble health of body, but of sound and disposing mind, 
memory and understanding, considering the certainty of death and the 
uncertainty of the time thereof and being desirous to settle my worldly 
affairs and thereby be the better prepared to leave this world when it shall 
please God to call me hence, do therefore make and publish this my last Will 
and Testament in manner and form following that is to say:

First and principally I commit my soul into the hands of Almighty God and my 
body to be decently interred.
Secondly -- After all my lawful debts are paid and discharged by my executor 
hereinafter named, I give, devise and bequeath to my son Close Decatur Kelley 
the farm upon which I now reside, together with the buildings, containing 33 
acres, 3 Roods and 17 perches, during his natural life, then to his eldest 
son, provided however that my son Close D. Kelley shall provide for me good 
substancial food, good comfortable bedding, and take good care of me having my 
washing and mending done, and treating me with all the kindness due a father, 
again, my said son Close D. Kelley shall not permit anyone to live on the farm 
devised to him excepting his own immediate family and one boy to cull oysters 
during my life, again, when it shall please God to call me by death, my said 
son Close D. Kelley, shall have me decently buried with good head and foot 
stone, he paying all the expenses.
Thirdly -- I also will and devise to my son Close D. Kelley all of my personal 
property and he the said Close D. Kelley to pay all the legacies hereinafter 
made.
Fourthly -- It is my will and desire that should the son of Close D. Kelley 
die before reaching manhood then the farm devised to Close D. Kelley shall go 
to Thomas P. Kelley’s eldest son Francis Elmer Kelley.
Fifth -- I give, devise and bequeath to my son John W. Kelley the House and 
Lot located in Skinner’s Neck during his natural life, then to his second son 
John Hero Kelley.
Sixth -- I give, devise and bequeath to my sons James M. and Thomas P. Kelley 
the sum of one hundred dollars each.  And to my son Theodore A. Kelley the sum 
of five dollars.  Also to my four daughters, the sum of five dollars each.  
Namely, Mary Ann Sophia Kelley, Martha Elizabeth Kelley, Charlotte Kelley and 
Rebecca Matilda Kelley, and I hereby charge upon the real and personal 
property devised to my son Close D. Kelley the payment of all the above 
legacies.
And Lastly -- I hereby constitute and appoint my son Close D. Kelley sole 
executor of this my last Will and Testament, hereby revoking and annulling all 
wills heretofore made by me.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal 
this twenty-fourth day of August A.D. 1881 - Eighteen Hundred and Eighty One.
	
							Thomas Kelley {Seal}

Signed, sealed, published and declared by Thomas Kelley, the above named 
testator as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us who at 
his request, in his presence, and in the presence of each other have 
subscribed our names as witnesses thereof.
							Wm. Thomas	{seal}
							R.S. Diehl 	
	{seal}
							Wm. Stevens	{seal}

State of Maryland
			Kent County Sct.
On this 22nd day of May 1888 then came Wm. Thomas, Wm. Stevens and R.S. Diehl 
subscribing witnesses to the within and aforegoing Will, before me, and made 
oath on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God that they did see Thomas Kelley the 
testator therein named, sign and seal this Will, and that they heard him 
publish, pronounce and declare the same to be his last Will and Testament.  At 
the time of so doing they believed him to possess a sound disposing mind, 
memory and understanding, and that they signed this will as witnesses, at the 
request and in the presence of the testator and in the presence of each other.
		Sworn before
						T. Ronnie Strong
							Register of Wills

Admitted to probate and Recorded
May 22, 1888 by
				T. Ronnie Strong
						Regr. of Wills



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