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Subject: Johnson.Sarah.1842.Fayette.WILL


Sarah Johnson January 21, 1842
Fayette County KyArchives Will

Source: Will Book P-484
Written: January 21, 1842

Know all men by these presents that I Sarah Johnson of the County of Fayette 
and State of Kentucky In view of the uncertaiinty of life and certainty of 
death, do hereby make and ordain this my last Will and Testament to dispose of 
all my temporal goods and Estate I may die possessed of hearby [sic] revoking 
all my previous will or wills.  It is my will and desire that Ten acres of the 
land I now live on ajoining [sic] M. M. Isacks line I give and bequeath to a 
Negro woman Milley which was Amansapated [sic] by the will of my Brother 
Horatio Johnson dec'd to her and her heirs forever.  It is further my will and 
desire that the remaining forty acres of my Said tract of land shall be equally 
divided between my brother Amos Johnson, my sister Mary Cass and my Sister 
Elizabeth McGinnis and my niece Mary Elizabeth Olnutt.  It is further my will 
and desire that my negroe woman Sency and her two children Berry and and [sic] 
a girl by the name of Matilda and her increase I give and bequeath to my Sister 
in law Ann Johnson to her and her heirs.  I have made this bequest to my ister 
in law having full confidence that she will do a good part by the woman and her 
children, the woman being of unsound mind.  It is further my will and desire 
that all the balance of my Estate I may die pocessed off [sic], iincluding my 
money, household furniture and stock, and every description of property shall 
be equally divided between my brother Amos Johnson, and my sister Mary Cass and 
my sister Elizabeth McGinnis, and my niece Mary Elizabeth Alnutt.  I appoint my 
friend Andrew H. Armstrong as Executor to this this [sic] my last will and 
testament.  Given under my hand and seal this twenty first day of January 1842.
Attest:  Waller Bullock.      Sarah Johnson by mark

Submitted by: Margaret H. Kannensohn
en4cer48@aol.com



Additional Comments:
Andrew H. Armstrong's family cemetery has/will shortly be posted.  In 1850, 
Amos Johnson, an idiot, was 58, living with Ann W., 30, in the household of 
Henry Goss.  Amos had been born in NC, and Ann in IN.

It is likely Sarah Johnson was buried in the Johnson family cemetery on their 
land, which was excepted from the deed.  Her brother Horatio likewise was 
buried there.  

The "Milley," a woman emancipated by Sarah's brother, Horatio, was Milley Cole 
[see Horatio Johnson will].  She and others of her children who likewise were 
emancipated, likely are buried on the original ten acres devised her in the 
will above.  The location of the site is in Coletown, Fayette County KY, but no 
current record of the Cole burials is available.  Other, more recent burials 
have been reported at the site; same have/will be uploaded here.

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