Will of Wm. Bacon	
Page 227 (217)

In the name of God Amen.	

I William Bacon of Madison County State of Mississippi being in bad health of body, but of  
sound and disposing mind, knowing the uncertainty of life, do now make and ordain this my last will and 
testament hereby revoking any and all testamentary dispositions by me heretofore made, my funeral and 
testamentary expenses including those of my last M__  I will first to be paid and then my other just debts.  
Secondly my plantation consisting of the West half of North East fourth and the North West fourth and the 
East half of South West fourth of Section Seventeen, Township Eleven, Range Four East containing by 
estimate nine hundred and twenty acres, my negro slaves Charles, Arthur, Nelson, Lewis, Betty, Mary, 
Louisa, Cripy (?), Linny, Eliza, Lucy and her four children Emily, Frances, __ and an infant, and the rest of 
my personal property I will after my death to be divided as follows.  To my brothers Nicholas C. Bacon and 
Edmund B. Bacon each one fourth __ and the other half I will to be equally divided between my nephew 
Robert J. T. Sugarby and my niece Mrs. Mary Jones both living in the state of Georgia and my niece Sarah 
M. Moore living in Madison County State of Mississippi and if the said legatees shall conclude to have the 
above mentioned property sold for the purpose of a division, then and in that event I will that it shall be 
sold in front of the Court House door in the town of Canton after having been legally advertised and Lastly 
I hereby appoint my worthy and eternal friend John B. Moore the sole executor of this my last will and 
testament.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and seal this the seventh day of March Anno 
Domini  one thousand eight hundred and fifty four.		/s/ Wm. Bacon

Signed sealed and published by the testator as and for his last will and testament in our presence, at his 
request and in the presence of each other and so by us witnessed on the day of the date thereof.
	/s/ Thos. L. Colton,  A. B. Burns, Wm. Davis Jr. 

Probate Court of said county being and held at Canton on the second Tuesday of April AD 1854 personally 
appeared in open court A. B. Burns and William Davis who each being duly sworn stated on oath that the 
paper now exhibited to the court dated 7th day of March, 1854 with the signature of Wm. Bacon affixed 
thereto and purporting to be the last will and testament of said William Bacon, was by said Wm. Bacon 
signed sealed & by him published & declared to be his last will testament on the said 7th day of March, 
1854, and that said deponents were present at the signing, sealing and publication thereof and that they 
affixed their names thereto as attesting witnesses at the request and in the presence of the said testator, and 
in the presence of each other and deponents further state that said testator was at that time of sound and 
disposing mind and memory & over twenty one years of age.  Whereupon the __ being considered it is 
ordered adjudged and decreed that said instrument be established and admitted to probate as the true last 
will and testament of William Bacon dec'd and that the same be admitted & recorded.  Witness my hand 
and seal this 10th day of April AD 1854	/s/ A. P. Hill, Probate Judge

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