BledsoeSarahHwill.htm

Franklin County, KYGenWeb

Will Book 2

1824 - 1854

Page 208
I Sarah H. Bledsoe of the City of Lexington and State of Kentucky, do hereby make and execute this my last will & testament. Having heretofore advanced to my
beloved children Joseph & Jane their just portion of my small estate and knowing that my beloved grandson Benjamin Gratz Brown will cheerfully acquiesce in this
my devise, I do hereby will and devise to my beloved daughter Sarah H. Bodley wife of Harry Bodley of Lexington Kentucky all the estate of every description which
I now have or which at the time of my deceased may belong to me. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set and affixed my name on this the 10 Feb 1842. I hereby
nominate and appoint Harry J. Bodley executor of this my will and desire that he qualify as such and that no security be required of him.
S H Bledsoe {Seal}

Witness C E Bodley
Mason Brown
Ben Gratz

Codicil to my last will --- All my estate real and mixed that I may be possed of or in any wise entitled to out of the State of Kentucky, I wish and desire to descend to
my heir according to the intestate laws of Kentucky. I hereby my sons in law Mason Brown and Harry J. Bodley of Frankfort my executors, and it is my wish that the
County in which they qualify my not require security of them or either of them. Signed Sealed at Lexington the Seventh of August 1847.

S H Bledsoe {Seal}
Witness Ben Gratz

Franklin County Court August Term 1849 - August 20th 1849
A writing purporting to be the last will & Testament of Mrs. Sarah H. Bledsoe decd.. With a Codicil thereto attached, and Mason Brown a subscribing witness to the
said will being sworn stated that the said Sarah H. Bledsoe the testator signed her name to the said will in his presence, and in the presence of Benjn. Gratz the
other subscribing witness thereto and that the said Brown & Gratz signed their names as witnesses and that she acknowledged the same as her last will. And
M B Gratz a witness to the Codicil was duly sworn who stated that the said Sarah H. Bledsoe signed her name to said Codicil in his presence an also in the presence
of Benjamin Gratz, the other subscribing witness, and that they both signed their names, name as witnesses to said Codicil in the presence of the said Sarah H Bledsoe
and in the presence of each. It is therefore ordered that the said will and Codicil be recorded as the last will and testament with the Codicil thereto of the said
Sarah H. Bledsoe decd.. and the same together with foregoing proof have been truly recorded in my office A H Rennick CFCC

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