ANSON COUNTY, NC - WILLS - Thomas Gaddy, Sr., 12 Oct 1854
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THOMAS GADDY SENIOR

Vol.  3 p.  93
Anson County North Carolina
12 day of October 1854, probate Jan.  term 1855

The last Will and Testament of Thomas Gaddy Senr.
	I, Thomas Gaddy of the County of Anson and State of North Carolina, 
being of sound mind and memory but being feeble in body do this 12 day of 
October AD 1854 make and publish this my last will and Testament.
1st It is my Will and desire that all my just debts of every kind be paid out 
of my Estate by my      Executor herein after named.
2nd It is my will and desire that my wife Nancy Gaddy have all the property 
that I may own of every kind both real and personal at the time of my death 
(except what it may take to pay all my just debts as above named) during her 
natural life and after her death I wish it to be divided by sale or otherwise 
by my Executor herein after named as he may think best among my children and 
Grand children as follows:
3. It is my will and desire that my daughter Jane Gaddy have the sum of five 
hundred dollars in money.
4.  It is my wish and desire that my son Thomas J.  Gaddy hold in Trust for 
the separate use and benefit of my son Ellis D.  Gaddy the sum of four hundred 
and fifty dollars, the interest of said four hundred and fifty dollars to be 
paid to my said son Ellis D.  Gaddy annually by the above named Trustee and 
should my said son Ellis D.  Gaddy die without bodily heirs the above named 
four and fifty dollars to be equally divided between all my children there may 
b e living at the time of his death by said Trustee (he reserving to himself a 
equal share of said money) that is an equal share with all my said children 
that may be alive at the time of my said son Ellis D.  Gaddy's death as name 
above in this item
5th It is my will and desire that after the death of my wife Nancy Gaddy that 
my daughters Patsey Gaddy and Jane Gaddy ___ the land that I may own at the 
time of my death and should they both be without bodily issue It is my will 
that all of said lands be sold and the net proceeds of the same be equally 
divided between all my children then living (that is that may be living at the 
time said daughters death).
6th It is my will and desire that after the death of my wife Nancy Gaddy, that 
my daughter Jane Gaddy have a negro woman by the name of Mary and her child 
named Hauna
7.  It is my will that after all the above named legacies are paid that the 
balance of my property be sold by my Executor herein after named and that the 
net proceeds of the same to be equally divided between all of my children then 
living and the children of any of my sons or daughters that may be dead at 
that time, said Grand children to receive among them the amount that their 
Father or Mother would be entitled tower they alive at that time.  It is 
expressly understood that the children of my son Stephen H.  Gaddy deceased 
receive no portion in this item until the sum of six hundred and thirty seven 
dollars and thirty seven cents ($607.37) is taken out of the portion that 
would be allotted to them, this amount is to go to all the rest of my children 
living or to the children of such as may have died in the same proportion as 
before named in this item, as I have paid the said sum of six hundred and 
thirty seven dollars and thirty seven cents to J.  White former Sheriff in 
consequence of being my said son Stephen H.  Gaddy's security to J.  P.  Leak.  
It is farther my will that the portion that may be allotted to my son Ellis in 
this item be held in Trust in the same manner and form as named in the fourth 
item of this my last will and testament by the same Trustee said Trustee to 
receive a reasonable percent out of the same for all of his trouble as Trustee
8.  I hereby nominate constitute and appoint my friend George W.  Little sole 
Executor to this my last will and Testament hereby revoking all other wills 
heretofore made by me
s/ Thomas X his mark Gaddy (seal)

Witness	
I.  F.  Lee?  (Ink glob)
H.  H.  Mitchum
Robert C.  Huntley

State of North Carolina } 	Court of Please and Quarter Sessions 
	    Anson County}	January Term 1855
	Then the last will and testament of Thomas Gaddy Senr. was duly proven 
in Open Court by the oath of Robert C.  Huntley a subscribing witness thereto 
and ordered to be recorded whereupon George W.  Little the Executor therein 
named was duly qualified by taking the oath required by law.

Transcribed by Martha Thayer
MartThayer@aol.com