Benjamin Chestnut
Will
(Transcribed
by Debi Houser Kendrick)
Benjamin Chestnut
Will
(Transcribed
by Debi Houser Kendrick)
| I Benjamin CHESTNUT
of Laurel County and State of Kentucky being of Sound mind and deposing
memory do here by make my last will and Testament here by revoking all
former wills Testaments made by me.
1st I will that all my Just debts and funeral expenses be paid. 2nd I will that my daughter Nancy MARTIN the wife of Joseph MARTIN and the children of my daughter Hily WEAVER now deceased and Blevins CHESTNUT my son have all my Estate after my death to be speciffic about it my will is that the Estate I have shall be divided into three Eqal parts my daughter Nancy MARTIN to have one part my daughter Hilley Children to have one part and Blevins CHESTNUT one part of all the property of every kind That I may have after the payment of my Just debts and funeral expenses as above specified 3rd As to my other children I have heretofore furnished for them and have Given them all that I intend that they shall have. 4th If either of the above persons to wit Nancy MARTIN my daughter Hilie's children or Blevins CHESTNUT Should died before I die leaving children then in that Event the children Shall have their part instead of them it is distinctly to be under Stood that it is to give to them and as they are dead to their children and if nay of their children be death without issue the remaining children are to have the part hereby divided. Given under my hand this the 24 day of Feb 1872
his
Witnesses
Where as on the 24th day of Feb last I made the foregoing Will and in as much as I am now living with Blevins CHESTNUT and his wife Polly is verry kind to me & waits upon me freely and kindly I hereby Give and bequeath to her my mare at my death I have given to Blevins CHESTNUT the smallest mule of the two that said mare has folded a short time back for taking care of both And if I Should die before I should dispose of the other mule then Blevins CHESTNUT is to have that also and I hereby change my will to that extent. Given under my hand this 11 day of May 1872 Benjamin X CHESTNUT Witnesses
State of Kentucky Laurel County Court Nov Term 1874 A paper purporting to be the last will and Testament of Benjamin CHESTNUT dec was produced in Court and Proven by the oath of G. PEARL James B. MOORE & Marry J. CHESTNUT Subscribing Witnesses there to where upon the Court ordered the Same to Record Att C. W. JONES Clk
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