Subject: Mattingly.C.B.1915.Marion.WILL



C. B. Mattingly April 7 1915
Marion County KyArchives Will

Source: Will Book 3, Pages 58-59, Marion County, Kentucky
Written: April 7 1915
Recorded: October 5 1915

Lebanon, Ky. April 7th, 1915

I, C. B. Mattingly, a resident citizen of Marion County, Kentucky, being of 
sound mind and memory, do make and publish this as my last will and testament.

ITEM 1: I want all my just debts paid as soon after my death as practicable.

ITEM 11: I hereby give and bequeath the sum of $25.00 to the Pastor of the 
Roman Catholic Church at St. Mary's Ky., called St. Charles Church, this sum 
to be used as an offering in the saying of masses for the repose of my soul: I 
also give and bequeath the sum of $25.00 to the Pastor of the Roman Catholic 
Church at St. Mary's, Ky., called St. Charles Church, the sum to be used as an 
offering in the saying of masses for the repose of the souls of my deceased 
wives, Annie Mary Mattingly, and Sallie Catherine Mattingly.

ITEM 111: The balance of my estate, real, personal and mixed, wherever 
situated I hereby give, devise and bequeath to all my children, Sallie C. 
Mattingly, Ida Mary Alvey, Thomas Kendrick Mattingly, Wallace Leo Mattingly, 
and J. Bernard Mattingly, same to be divided among my aforesaid children share 
and share alike. It is my desire that my farm shall not be sold until my 
youngest child reaches the age of twenty one years, but if my Executor 
hereinafter named, should deem it to be the best interest of my estate that 
said farm should be sold at an earlier date, my said Executor shall have the 
right to do so.

ITEM IV: I hereby authorize and direct my Executor to sell said farm, as above 
indicated, for the purpose of distributing the proceeds thereof among my 
children as set out in paragraph 111 herein, and when sold my said Executor to 
make to the purchaser thereof, a general warranty deed for same.

ITEM V: I hereby nominate, constitute and appoint my friend, S. B. Bottom, of 
Lebanon, Ky., Executor of this, my last will and testament.

Given under my hand this 7th day of April 1915.

We, the undersigned state that C. B. Mattingly, in our presence, signed and 
acknowledged the foregoing paper as his last will and testament, and we, as 
witnesses, sign this paper in his presence and in the presence of each other. 
This April 7th, 1915.

Chas. C. Boldrick.
J. LaMotte Spalding.


At a regular term of the Marion County Court, held in and for said County in 
the State of Kentucky, on the 4th day of October 1915, the for going paper 
purporting to be the last will and testament of C. B. Mattingly, deceased, was 
produced in open Court and the last will and testament of C. B. Mattingly, 
deceased, was proven by the oaths of C. C. Boldrick and J. LaMotte Spalding, 
the two attesting witnesses thereto to be the last will and testament of C. B. 
Mattingly, deceased, And same was ordered to record as the last will and 
testament of C. B. Mattingly, deceased. Whereupon I have recorded it, and this 
certificate. Given under my hand this 5th day of October 1915.

Sam J. Spalding, Clerk
By W. C. Madden, D. C.

Submitted by: Roger Mattingly
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Additional Comments:
This is the will of Charles Bernard Mattingly, Dec. 9, 1858 - Sept. 10, 1915, 
that was recorded into the Marion County, Kentucky Will Book 3, Pages 58-59.

This is the recorded copy of the will. As such, the signature of C. B. 
Mattingly is not on this copy. Certainly, it was on the original copy of the 
will.

Charles is the son of Leonard Barton Mattingly, II and Elizabeth Greenwell.

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