Will
of Gilbert Vandergriff
1877
Transcribed
and submitted by Jean Kinzalow
dragonlair@spacey.net
Last
Will and Testament of Gilbert Vandergriff dec'd.
State
of Tennessee
Hamilton
County
I
Gilbert Vandergriff do make this my last and only will but revoking
all others
that might be proposed to be my will.
First
- I desire that all my Just debts and burial expenses be paid out
of my
personal property.
2nd
I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Elizabeth all my property
both real
and personal during her natural life and after her death my
desire is
that the real estate and what personal property may be left be
sold in some
way to bring the most money and in away ["away" is written
as it
appears in the will] that it will bring the highest price. Then
out of the
proceeds of said sale I desire that my Daughter Sarah
Vandergriff
have fifteen Hundred Dollars first out of the proceeds of
said sale.
3rd
I give and bequeath to Polly Ann Doolin Jacob Vandergriff heirs
Margaret
Scott Jane Brown and Hile Vandergriff the balance of the
proceeds of
said sale of said property to be equely divided Shear and
Shear alike
Jacobs heir [there was no "s"] to be one shear and
Lastly
- I appoint A Seleen my executor to carry out the conditions of
this Will
and to do all and every thing required in the premises and
after it
being read in my hearing I cordialy approve the same this the
12" day
of April AD 1877.
I
am now in my right mind and this is what I always intended to do.
Gilbert
(his mark) Vandergriff
Signed
in the presence of us
R
M Brown
E
R Maslin
Hamilton
Adams