Jefferson Co., MS Will Book A #3
Will of Arthur Brown Ross
(C. Avis Catalog entry #653)
In the name of God Amen
I Arthur Brown Ross do make and ordain this my last will & testament in manner and form following I give my soul to almighty god my creator & my body to be buried at the discretion of my executor herein after named – my worldly goods & possessions I give & bequeath in the following names First I give & bequeath to my two sons Isaac Arthur Brown & John Isaac Ross two hundred dollars each to their heirs and assigns forever & if in case either of them should die with out a lawful heir of theirs then the survivor to be the others heir for their divide and of my Estate real & personal. After all my just debts is paid I give & bequeath to my beloved wife (Hannah Ross) her natural life time all the remainder of my estate real & personal and at her death to be divided in manner and form following that is I give my eldest daughter Eliza Sims ten dollars & my next oldest daughter Sarah Conger O’Quin ten dollars & to youngest daughter Abigail Gibson Sims ten dollars to their heirs & their xxxx(illegible) use for ever now the balance of my estate real & personal to be divided in manner & form following. I will one sixth part to my daughter Eliza Sims children lawfully begotten one other sixth part to my daughter Sarah Conger O’Quin’s children lawfully begotten one other sixth part to my daughter Abigail Gibson Sims three children say Hannah Brown Sims, Arthur Brown Ross Sims and Eliza Hill Sims and one other sixth part to my son Ely Kershaw Ross one other sixth part to my son Isaac Arthur Brown Ross and one other sixth part to my son John Isaac Ross my will is that if Isaac Arthur Brown Ross or John Isaac Ross dies with out heirs lawfully be gotten the survivor to be the others heir of my estate and its my will that my estate be kept all together and under the care & direction of my Executor till my grand children marrys or comes to the age of twenty one years of age, that my daughters children’s parts & if either of their children all dies than their dividend to go to the rest of my grand children shear & share a like my will is that the above four hundred dollars lift Isaac Arthur Brown & John Isaac Ross be said thru one year after my death or at the discresion of my beloved wife my will is that my executrix or executors may sell any property for the full value if its not done with an entention of fraud -- Turn over (end of page one)
I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my said loving wife Hannah Ross executrix and my loving brother Isaac Ross, Isaac Arthur Brown Ross, and John Isaac Ross my lawfull executors of this my last will and testement revoaking all others.
Signed sealed and delivered & declared to be his last will an testament in the presense of:
Catherine Crane (last name not entirely legible)
Mary Al… (last name not entirely legible)
David Duncan
A. B. Rofs (Ross)
Jefferson County Clerk note on bottom of will:
No. 3-“A”
Est. Arthur Brown Ross, Dec’d
Not filed – about 1800
Recorded Nov. 8, 1963
O.S. Gillis, Jr., Clerk
* Transcribed by Lance H. Salge on 5/18/2001. The majority of misspelled words were left as per the original will. Corrections were only made where clarity was essential.