JOHN TEMPLINS WILL
I John Templin do make
and publish this as my last will and testament hereby revoking and making void
all others by me at any time made First & direct that my funeral expenses
and all my debts be paid as soon after my death as possible out of any moneys
that I may did possessed of or may first come into the hands of my executor.
Secondly I give and bequeath to my sons Elbert and James A. Templin the farm on
which I now live also the thirty acre tract known as the Wolsey
tract to be equally theirs on the following conditions. Elbert
& James Templin to pay each the following sum. Elbert to pay my son
Samuel Templin fifty dollars, James A. Templin to pay him fifty dollars making
the sum of one hundred dollars which sum is to make his entire interest in my
estate. Also to pay Martha McNeese one hundred
dollars, Eliza Estes one hundred dollars, Emaline
Lovelace two hundred and twenty five dollars, Malinda
Wyan one hundred and fifty dollars, Amanda Loyd two hundred and twenty five dollars and Elizabeth
Templin three hundred dollars the above sums to be their entire interest in my
estate the above sum make in the aggregate the sum of twelve hundred dollars of
which amount Elbert is to pay six hundred dollars and James A. Templin is to
pay six hundred dollars. Lastly I do hereby nominate and appoint Elbert Templin
my executor. In witness whereof I do to this my last will set my hand this 7th
day of May one thousand eight hundred and sixty nine.
John Templin
Signed and subscribed
in our presence and we have subscribed our names hereto in the presence of the
testator this the 7th day of May 1869. The word be in fourth line
from the bottom ____________ before the signing..
Ebenezer Booth
E. Armstrong
The foregoing will
was presents to the Court for probate at July term 1869 and proven by the oaths
of Ebenezer Booth and E. Armstrong the two subscribing, witnesses thereto and
ordered to be recorded and Elbert Templin the executor therein named appeared
in open court entered into bond and security as was qualified as the law
directs.
J. F Grisham Clerk
