Muhlenberg County Kentucky
Wills: E
Emma Eaves, 1889
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I, Emma Eaves, widow of Prentice Eaves, deceased, being of dispoing mind, do make and publish this my last will and testmanet in order to secure a permanent home and proper training, education, and moral influence for my children Laura Eaves and Noble Eaves.
I give them my mother Mary Ann Elliott to rear, train, and educate as they should be and as far as my mother under the provisions of this will may be able to do.
I give and bequeath to my mother Mary Ann Elliott the house I have had built on the lot of my father Lynn Elliott to be a home for her and my two children and the children of my mother during her and their natural lives, and at the death of my mother, I will and direct that said house be and remain the common property of my own two children and all of the unmarried children of my mother, to be used by them in common as and for a home until they and each of them shall have married or fournd another home or departed this life and until the youngest one of them shall have arrived at the age of twenty one years, then and in that event said house shall be my mother's, to dispose of absolutely as her own property.
I give and bequeath to my mother also, for the purpose of caring for my two children as stated herein, all my personal property of whatever description including money, notes, bonds, chases in action &c. &c. and any residue after so caring for and educating my children shall be hers absolutely to control and to dispose of as she chooses.
I direct that my executors first pay, out of my personal estate and means, all my just debts and expenses of every description.
I do hereby nominate and appoint Mr. Louis Reno and M.J. Roark my executors to carry out the provisions of this will.
In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name this the second day of July 1889.
Emma Eaves
Signed in presence of
S.J. Poag
W.F. Dempsey
Sarah J. Poag
W.F. Dempsey
State of Kentucky
Muhlenberg County Court } Sct.
July Term 1889
The foregoing last will and testament of Emma Eaves, deceased, was produced to Court on the date aforesaid and proved to be the act and deed of said decedent by the oaths of Sarah J. Poag and W.F. Dempsey, the subscribing witnesses thereto. Whereupon the same was ordered to be recorded, which is now done accordingly.
W.T. Stiles Clerk
By W.R. Eaves DC
Source: Muhlenberg County Kentucky Will Book 4, pp. 102-103.
Updated August 26, 2022