Will of John G. Powell
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	In the name of God, amen.
I John G. Powell being in feeble health but of sound and disposing mind and memory and 
knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do hereby make ordain and publish 
this as my last will and testament hereby revoking all others by me heretofore made.
Item 1	I wish all my just debts and burial expenses to be paid.

Item 2	It is my will that my real and personal estate of every kind and character whatever 
except that hereafter and differently disposed of by this my will should belong absolutely 
to my brother William W. Powell, but I desire that my executor hereinafter named should 
cultivate my plantation in Madison County, Mississippi with the hands now upon it and 
pay over at the end of each year the proceeds of the crops raised thereon for the space of 
five years or until the said William W. Powell arrives at the age of twenty one years 
between my two aunts Mary F. Dudley and Sarah A. Kenedy residing in the State of 
Kentucky share and share alike of said proceeds to be equally divided between them, but 
whenever the said  William W. Powell arrives at the age of twenty one years it is my will 
that my executor turn over and deliver to him my said plantation and all the personal 
property thereon including negroes, mules, horses and in fact everything upon the place.

Item 3	I give and bequeath  to my uncle Hobson Powell all money due or to become due 
me for real estate sold in the state of Kentucky and hereby direct my executor to pay over 
the same to him or his heirs whenever collected.

Item 4	I also give and bequeath to my said uncle Hobson Powell whatever may be 
realized as my share from the mercantile partnership of Powell and Jeffries composed of 
myself and William S. Jeffries after the debts of the partnership have been paid off and 
discharged.

Item 5	I hereby nominate and appoint my uncle George M. Powell as executor to this my 
last will and testament and desire that he be not required by the Probate Court to give 
security upon his bond as such executor.
In testimony whereof witness my hand and seal this 18th day of January AD 1860.
/s/ John G. Powell

Signed sealed published acknowledged by the testator as his last will and testament and 
our presence and by us signed as witnesses below in his presence and in the presence of 
each other.	/s/ James L. Meek, James McFarland, J. Warren Baughn

Probate Court of Madison County, March term 1860}
In the matter of a certain paper purporting to be the last will and testament of John G. 
Powell, deceased.	Be it remembered that a certain paper dated 18th January, 1860 and 
attested by James L. Meek, James McFarland and J. Warren Baughn as witnesses and 
purporting to be the last will and testament of John G. Powell being presented by George 
M. Powell in Open Court for probate and thereupon appeared in open court James L. 
Meek, James McFarland, and J. Warren Baughn who being duly sworn each and all of 
them stated that said John G. Powell at the time of death had a fixed residence in the 
County of Madison that the paper now offered for probate and alluded by them was 
signed by John G. Powell on the date thereof in the presence of each and all of said 
witnesses and was by him published and declared as his last will and testament and that they each 
and all at his request and by his direction signed their names thereto as attesting witnesses 
in the presence of the testator and in the presence of each other.  And that at the time 
thereof said John G. Powell was of sound and disposing mind and memory and more than 
twenty one years of age.  Therefore premises being considered, it is hereby ordered and 
adjudged said paper signed and dated and attested as aforesaid be admitted to Probate and 
recorded as the true last will and testament of John G. Powell deceased and that Letters 
Testamentary be granted to George M. Powell the executor herein named upon his 
entering into bond in the sum of twenty five thousand dollars, without security and all 
security being dispensed with in the said will.  Ordered adjudged and decreed this 24th 
day of March AD, 1860.	/s/ Joseph H. Postell, Judge


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