George A. Morton
 
 

Will Book A
                       McCracken County, Kentucky
Page 488

I, George A. Morton, living in McCracken County, Kentucky being in feeble
health and sences, do make and declare this to be my last will and testament.

It is my wish that my wife, Fanny Morton, be allowed to select any article of
household furniture that she may want without her being charged for any of
them and without valueation or appraisement.

It is my wish and desire that all my property real and personal and mixed
shall be sold at any time that my executor may think best.(wherever situated)
my executor has the power to make the sales, or appoint any person he may
select to make them for him, without any decree of court or consent of Judge
or tribunal whatever.

It is my will and desire that after paying all my debts the residue of my
property as I have stated after being converted into money, be divided into
three equal parts, betwen my wife Fanny Morton and my two daughters, Lillie
and Annie, there is due my wife Fanny Morton from her grandparents in Barren
County, Kentucky an interest which is her own to do with as she may choose,
and any title that she may have to same I give to her.

It is my wish and desire that my Brother T. W. Morton, will assume the
gaurdianship of two daughters Lillie and Annie and control in whatever
way he thinks best their portion of my estate, without any security being
required of him whatever, and I also wish T.W. Morton to qualify and act
as my executor without being required to give bond or any security whatever,

In the name of God who doeth all things well, I declare this to be my last
will and testament on this the first day of April 1866

In the presence of;
D.H. Meblet and T.H Flowers      Witness my hand and seal
                                              G. A. Morton (seal)

State of Kentucky
McCracken County

At a County Court held for the County aforesaid at the Courthouse in
Paducah on the 25th day of January, 1867, the foregoing last will and
testament of G.A. Morton deceased was produced in open Court and proven
by the oaths of D.H. Meblet, and Thomas Flowers the two subscribing
witness thereto and ordered to record which is done accordingly.

Given under my hand this 30th day of January 1867

                                      James Spence  Clerk

Submitted by Vera Burnham

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