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Green H. Thornton
Dated: October 13, 1865
Barbour County Probate Office, Clayton, AL
Orphans Court Record book Pages 124-127.
Know all men by these merits that I Green H. Thornton of the County of Barbour
and state of Alabama being of sound mind and deposing
memory do make publish
and declare the following to be my last will and testament hereby revoking
all wills that may have heretofore been made by me.
Item 1. I will and devise that my mortal remains be interred in a decent
manner and that as soon as practicable thereafter a scent box tombstone be
erected thereupon and it enclosed with anion railing.
2nd. After the payment of all my lawful debts by my executors herein after
appointed, I give bequeath and desire unto my beloved wife Rhoda Thornton
(should she survive me) my plantation known as the Home Place containing four
hundred and eighty acres of land together with all the
improvements
thereunto affixed and all the stock, furniture, farming utensils, vehicles
and other personal property that is in on upon said plantation in keeping it
up and provisions of every kind sufficient to support and keep up the
plantation for one year, that is to finish or make one crop as the case may
be, for her natural life and no longer free from the control of any one. Only
that my executors herein after mentioned are authorized and directed to
exercise a supervising can of said life estate and prevent waste but in manner
to deprive her after full control and free thereof during her life.
3rd. I bequeath and devise unto my wife Rhoda absolutely and forever all the
(such) profits that she may make out of said estate during her life interest
free to dispose of as she may see fit by will or other (in).
4th. The remainder of my property both real and personal and mixed which
consist of plantation stock, for ? farming utensils
and a store house and lot in the city of Eufaula, I hereby
give bequeath and devise unto my six children or their heir in equal shares
that is one share to the children of my son Leander A. Thornton in equal
shares, one share or one sixth to R. B. Thornton, one
share to G. G. Thornton,
One share to N. H. Thornton and one share to the
children of my deceased
daughter Euphemy Cartledge formerly Euphemy Thornton in equal parts, and one
share to my daughter Rhoda Cartledge formerly Rhoda Thornton, upon the
contrition that the one sixth or one share conveyed to the children of my son
Leander A. Thornton shall be free from Leanders debts now existing or
hereafter contracted, and free and protected from the debts of any other person
but should the said Leander be indebted to me at the time of my death then
said indebting shall be considered as an advancement to his children and
shall be liquidated by deducting that amount from their share in equal parts.
And I hereby make and constitute Leander A. Thornton the trustee of said
estate for his children during their minority.
5th. I hereby make constitute and appoint my son R. B.
Thornton trustee of the
estate heretofore conveyed to the children of my deceased daughter Euphemy
Cartledge during their minority.
6th. Should my son Dozier Thornton whom we suppose was killed during the late
war hereafter appear among the living then the forgoing will is so far revoked
as to entitle him to an equal share with the other children.
7th. As soon after my death as practicable it is my will and direction that my
estate be divided as heretofore conveyed and sale made if (fiducary)
and as
the legatees are all of age their parts given them as soon as lawful.
8th Upon the death of my wife I hereby bequeath and devise to my children
aforesaid or their heir in equal parts to my children that is the children of
any one of my deceased children taking a child's share the life estate
heretofore bequeathed to my wife.
9th I have in my possession a note signed by Edmund Cartledge (now) deceased
for 10,000 lbs of cotton given for one half interest in the land upon which
his widow my daughter Rhoda now lives. If said note is not paid during my life
it is my will and decission? that it be given by
me executors to my daughter
Rhoda or her heirs for one thousand dollars to be deducted
from her share and
it is my will that she remain undisturbed in the (?
there of until her
title can be perfected as above deducted.
10th . I hereby make
constitute and appoint my sons R. B. Thornton and N.
H.
Thornton the executors of this my last will and testament in writing whereof I
have hereunto set my hand and seal this the 13th day of October AD 1865.
Green H. Thornton (seal)
In presence of R. C. Johnson, W.
H. H. Dill, W. B.
Fanek.
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