Will of Redding Williams |
Last Will & Testament of REDDING WILLIAM Dec'd Proven and Set up at the Feby & March Terms 1864 of Dyer County I REDDING WILLIAMS do make and publish this my last will and Testament hereby revoking and making void all other wills by me at any time made. First - I direct that my Funeral expenses and all my debts be paid as soon after my death as possible out of any monies I may die possessed of or that may first come into the hands of my executor. Secondly. I direct that at my death my heirs MANEZA MOORE, DRUSILLA BETTIS, NANCY LEGGETT, CELIA WILLIAMS, JAMES WILLIAM, MARY VANDERGRIFF, EMILY WILLIAMS, and my grand Son JOSEPH T. REDDICK Select Five disintersted persons to value my Tract of Land containing Seventy five acres, and that my Son-in-law G. W. BETTIS take the land at whatever it may be valued at paying to each of the above mentioned heirs their proportionate part of the money the land may be valued at. At the expiration of two years after my death. I give and bequeath to CELIA WILLIAMS, JAS WILLIAMS, EMILY WILLIAMS, One Bed and furniture, my other heirs all having had the same. I also give and bequeath to CELIA, and EMILY WILLIAMS our Cow and calf. Two Hundred and fifty pounds of Pork and Five Barrells of Corn each. And my present crop of cotton, I give and bequeath to AMANDA WILLIAMS wife of CALVIN WILLIAMS Dec'd Five Dollars her husband CALVIN WILLIAMS having already had his proportional share of my property. I give and bequeath to WALTER WILLIAMS Son of CALVIN and AMANDA WILLIAMS Five Dollars. And whatever balance is remaining after paying my debts to be equally divided between MANEZA MOORE, DRUSILLA BETTES, NANCY LEGGET, CELIA WILLIAMS, JAS WILLIAMS, MARY VANDERGRIFF and EMILY WILLIAMS, and JOSEPH T. REDDICK, Son of DELPHIA REDDICK Dec'd, I do hereby nominate and appoint my son-in-law G. W. BETTIS my Executor to this my last will and Testament. In witness whereof I do to this my last will set my hand and seal This Dec 19th 1863. REDDING WILLIAMS
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