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Will Book 2

1824 - 1854

Page 214
I William Ellis of Frankin County Kentucky being of disposing mind and memory, make this my last will and testament as follows.

1st  I desire the payment of all just demands immediately my death.

2nd  After payment of my debts I will and devise the remainder of my estate real personal and mixed to my wife Nancy Ellis during life.

3rd  At the death of my wife I will and devise to my nephew Benjamin E. Ellis son of my brother James Ellis the place whereon I now reside containing twenty eight
acres more or less to him & his heirs forever.

4th  I further will and devise after the death of my wife that my slave Tabby be liberated and set free from servitude.

5th  I hereby constitute and appoint my wife Executrix of this my will & desire that no bond or security be required of her. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand & seal this 28th day of July 1849.

William Ellis

Signed sealed & delivered in our presence & in the presence of each other.
P. Swigert W. Franklin

Frankin County Court May Session 1850
A writing purporting to be the last will & testament of William Ellis decd. was produced in Court & was proven by the oaths of P. Swigert & W. Franklin the subscribing
witnesses thereto & ordered to be recorded, whereupon the same is truly recorded in my office.
A. H. Rennick CFCC


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