John m Jackson, probate Whitfield County GA

John M Jackson

1862

Whitfield County, GA

(written at Chatham County, GA but he is of Whitfield County)

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John M Jackson, written at Chatham County GA, he is of Whitfield County, Georgia

Real and personal property consisting of my house and lot in the City of Dalton on McCamy Street where I now live, one half interest in the

house and lot where my office stands, one fourth interest in the brick house and lot adjoining Worthey's, known as the Bill Long house

and lot on Hambleton Street; the house and lot known as the old Murphy house and lot where Jesse Trotter now keeps store on Hambleton

Street, there is a mortgage lien on the same which it is subject to in favor of Wiley Banks & Co when levied by that mortgage I desire that my

executor make no --- to its sale and go to no expense, also lot of land in the 10th Dist of Whitfield County #142 I think but known as the Ted

Short lot. Also my negro Caty a woman and her child Martha; Nancy a woman and her three children Emery a boy, Lucy a girl and Fanny a girl.

One half interest in a negro man named Ezekiel. All my notes accounts, judgments and costs due me for jury fees, my household and kitchen

I will that it go to and vest in my beloved wife and children to wit my wife Amelia O Jackson, my son Thomas M Jackson and my two daughters

Mary W and Lucy M Jackson jointly to be held by my wife for the best interest of all concerned for the support, management and education of my

children. She has the power to sell and dispose of any or all of the afore named property and reinvest in real estate, negroes or good stocks in railroad

Miss Cornelia Holiday live with my family and that she be supported as one of them so long as they all remain together or my wife keeps house.

I further will that the pen that I signed the ordinance of secession and the one that I signed the constitution of the confederate states with my

Wife Amelia O Jackson is hereby appointed my executrix for the term of fifteen years and then I nominate and appoint my son Thomas M

Jackson her co-executor in case he shall be a steady boy and not addicted to gambling and drinking. In that event he is to have nothing to do

Pike County, GA: I, Amelia O Jackson, do solemnly swear that the within writing contains the true last will and testament of the within

named John M Jackson and I will execute the same by paying first the debts and then the legacies contained in said will. November term 1866.