Will for Joseph McIntosh from Lincoln County, MO. ******************************************************************** File contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Linda Schmehl USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, 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. ********************************************************************* Joseph McIntosh of the County of Lincoln and State of Missouri do make and publish this my last will and testament that is to say First it is my will that my funeral expenses and all my just debts be fully paid. Second I give divise and bequeath to my beloved wife Sarah McIntosh all my real and personal estate including all my lands & negros. All my live stock horses cattle sheep hogs & etc by me now owned. Also all my household and kitchen furniture and other items not particular named and not otherwise disposed of during her natural life (or widowhood) and that at her death (or marriage) of my said wife all the porperty hereby devised or bequeathed to her as aforesaid or so much thereof as may then remain ... expended after educating and raising my youngest children to be equally divided between my eleven children to equally divided between my eleven children viz Mary C. Crume, Ann Abigail Cook, Sarah E. McIntosh, Robert S. McIntosh, Thomas W. McIntosh, Elizabeth P. McIntosh, James B. McIntosh, Jane Sennat McIntosh, Lucy Jefferson McIntosh, Adaline Young McIntosh, and Jospeh Harvey McIntosh and their heirs and assigns forever. And lastly I hereby constitute and appoint my said wife Sarah McIntosh and my brother Robert McIntosh to be the Executors to this my last wife and testament, revoking and annulling all former wills by me made and ratified and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this day of Decr 14th 1852. Joseph McIntosh SEAL Signed published and declared by the said Joseph McIntosh as and for his last will and testament in the presents of us who at his request have signed as witnesses to the same in his presents and in the presents of each other. John S. Dryden SEAL James M. Clellan SEAL Thomas A. Reide SEAL Proved in court Oct 24, 1863