Franklin County, KYGenWeb
Will Book 1
1795 - 1823
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37 FIn the name of God Amen, I William Graves of the county of Franklin and State of Kentucky being very sick but of perfect mind and memory. Thanks be given to Almighty God, calling unto mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men to die Do make and ordain this my last will and Testament that is to say, Principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hands of Almmighty God that gave and my Body I recommend to the Earth, to be buried in a decent Christian burial at the Discretion of my Friends and as touching such worldly Estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me in this life. I Give devise and dispose of the same in the following manner. Item. I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Mary Graves after the paying of all my just debts everything then remaining to her and her heirs forever. I do hereby constitute and ordain Jno. Arnold Jnr. and Mary Graves my wife Exec. & Exec. of this my Last will and Testament. And I do hereby utterly disallow revel and disannul all and every other former Testaments, Wills, Legacies, Bequests & Executions by me in any wise before made willed and Bequeathed ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and Testament, In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Seventh day of August in the year One thousand Eight hundred & four. Signed sealed and delivered by the said William Graves as his last will & Testament in the presence of us who in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names. William Graves
Thos.
J. Withers, Scott Brown
At a
Court held in Franklin County on Monday the 16th day of December 1805 A writing
purporting to be the last will and Testament of William Graves decd. was
produced in court and
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