Will of Elizabeth Davis Divine 

	I, Elizabeth Davis Divine of the County of Madison and State of Mississippi 
being of sound and disposing mind and memory do make publish and declare this to be 
my last will and testament.
	Let all my debts be paid including funeral charges.
	Let all my estate real and personal not hereafter enumerated be sold.
	Let my body have a christian burial and a plain marble slab or monument mark its 
final resting place.
	To my daughter Emmaline Galtney I give and bequeath the slaves Hogan & his 
wife Maria and their child Mima.
	To my daughter Mary Coleman I give and bequeath the man Abram and his wife 
Ester and their daughter Francis and her child Isaac [?].
	To my daughter Laura Divine I give and bequeath the house now occupied as my 
family residence together with one hundred acres of land on which I now reside, and to 
be so land off as to include the house aforesaid, cotton gin, negro quarters and all other 
buildings and improvements on the aforesaid tract of land.  I also give and bequeath to 
my said daughter Laura the slaves Sophy & Sarah and Betty, child of said Sarah.
	To my daughter Ann Ford I give and bequeath the sum of five hundred dollars in 
money to be paid out proceeds of sale herebefore directed.
	To my son Kinsman Clinton Divine I give and bequeath the slaves Giles, Frand 
and Moses.
	To my daughter Lydia Baldwin I give and bequeath the slaves Anna, Aggy, Mary 
and her child Omega.
	To my grandson Wilbin Fisk Divine  Ford I give and bequeath the slave Nancy.
	To my grandson William  Fly I give and bequeath the sum of five hundred dollars 
in money to be paid out of the proceeds of sales hereunto before directed.
	To the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church South in Sharon I give and 
bequeath the sum of five hundred dollars in money to aid in the erection of a new house 
of worship for the use of said church.
	I wish my executors to retain out of my estate five hundred dollars which they 
will invest in good & sufficient security and annually pay the interest on said investments 
to the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church  South in Sharon to be appropriated by 
said Trustees towards keeping the cemetary of said church in good repair.
	To Kinsman Wyatt, son of my deceased husband's niece Mary Dennis I give and 
bequeath whatever may remain of my estate, after the distributions already herein 
directed, and it is my desire and belief that such residue of my estate may amount to at 
best four hundred dollars.	
	And I hereby constitute and appoint my son Kinsman C. Divine and my son in 
law Felix M. Baldwin executors of this my last will and testament.
	In testamony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 5th day of 
December AD 1860.
					/s/ Elizabeth D. Divine
	


Signed sealed published and declared in our presence by the above named Elizabeth D. 
Divine to be her last will and testament.  In testamony whereof we the undersigned 
witnesses in presence of each other and in presence of said testator have hereunto signed 
our names this 5th day of December AD 1860.
				       /s/	Wm. M. Curtiss
					Eleanor D. Curtiss
					A. W. Clark

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