This is [my last] will and testament. I wish my land laying [in] Muhlenberg Co. Ky. to be equally [divided] in to four shares between G.R. McLean, M.B. McLean, G.R. Danks, Celia Harrod's two children equal one heir.
I want my personal property sold and equally divided between the four heirs as aforesaid, paying N.J. Curtis and R.R. McLean one dollar each.
This my last [will] and testament leaving W.B. McLean and H.P. Danks administrators without bond, the property to be disposed of when the administrators think best, if it a term of years. Administrators being guardian for the two children, paying them when they think best.
E.A. McLean
Witness by
J.E. Danks
Muhlenberg County Court
March 28” Regular Term 1898
The foregoing last will and testament of E.A. McLean deceased was produced in open court on the date aforesaid and proven to be the act and deed of said decedent by the oath of J.E. Danks the subscribing witness thereto, and H.P. Danks also appeared in court and after being duly sworn, stated that he had written the said will and had done so by request of said decedent, that said decedent signed said will in his presence and that the condition of said decedent['s] mind was good at the time that he, the said decedent, subscribed his name to said will. Whereupon the same was adjudged to be the last will and testament of said decedent and ordered to be recorded, which is now done accordingly.
Witness my hand this 4” day of April 1898
Ed. S. Wood Clerk
By J.G. Ellison DC
Source: Muhlenberg County Kentucky Will Book 4, p. 195.
Updated August 7, 2022