Crawford County, Missouri Wills - Delafayette Ramsey
Will Book A page 86

Will of Delafayette Ramsey

Know all to whom these presents shall come that whereas, I, DeLafayette 
Ramsey of Crawford County Missouri being now of a sound and disposing mind 
and memory having first committed my soul to God who gave it and my body to 
the dust from whence it came do hereby declare and publish this to be my last 
will and testimony.  Hereby revoking all or any former will or will I may have 
heretofore made or have had recorded.
First, I give and bequeath the bodily heirs of my beloved daughter Louisa 
Blackwell now deceased, the sum of five dollars, lawful money.
Second, I give and bequeath to my beloved son, John H. Ramsey the sum of five 
dollars lawful money.
Third, I give and bequeath to the bodily heirs of Ginsey Smith now deceased, 
the sum of five dollars lawful money.
Fourth, I give and bequeath to my beloved wife the sum of one hundred dollars 
lawful money for her support for her lifetime.
Fifth, I give and bequeath my beloved son William T. Ramsey or his bodily heirs 
the sum of four dollars.
Sixth, I give and bequeath to the bodily heirs of my beloved daughter, Hannah 
Britton, deceased, the sum of five dollars lawful money.
Seventh, I give and bequeath to my beloved son Robert L. Ramsey, the sum of two 
hundred dollars lawful money.
Eighth, I give and bequeath to my beloved daughter Sally Caroline Snead the sum 
of two hundred dollars, lawful money.
Ninth, it is further my will and I direct that after the above legacies are 
fully paid that the balance of my said estate shall be equally divided 
amongst my beloved children or in case of their decease to their bodily heirs,
except William T. Ramsey, it is my will that he or his heirs shall receive 
nothing more except as herein before willed ____, the sum of four dollars.
Tenth, I having full confidence and trust in the integrity of Robert L. 
Ramsey and William Snead, I hereby appoint them my 2 executors of this my 
last will and testament.  In _______- I hereunto sign my name in the 
presence of witnesses this 12th day of January 1863.

Signed by
DeLafayette Ramsey


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