Last Will and Testament of Lucius Horace Featherston

Coweta Co., Ga., Will Book  C:6
Coweta County and State of Georgia

Submited By: L.F. Wright

    I, Lucius H. Featherston of the County and State aforesaid being of sound and
disposing mind and memory and knowing that life is uncertain and that death is certain
and being and being desirous of disposing of the property that I have been permitted by a
kind providence to accumulate in this life do now make and publish this as my last will
and Testament and by it do hereby revoke all others heretofore by me made.
Item 1st:      My immortal Spirit I surrender to the all wise and merciful God who gave
it, trusting and believing that my sins have been forgiven and hardened by the atonement 
made by his son our God and Savior Jesus Christ and I direct that my body be buried in a
decent and Christian-like manner.
Item 2nd:    I give and devise to my beloved wife for and during her natural life or
widowhood the lands I at this time reside on known as my residence and composed of
fifty and five eights of acres in the Southwest corner of lot No. Fifty Seven (57) and the
same number of acres in the Southeast corner of lot No. Fifty Eight (58) both in the Fifth
(5) District of said County and State and in making said settlement one hundred one and
one fourth acres and located one mile North of the Courthouse in Newnan in said County
and on the road leading to old town of Campbellton.
Item 3rd:    I give and devise to my beloved wife for & during her natural life or
widowhood, all of the personal property consisting of the household and kitchen
furniture, stock, of all kinds and all the tools and implements that I own and possess that
are at my death used on said farm.
Item 4th:    I will and devise all of the property mentioned in the second and third
items of this will (illegible) be used and enjoyed by my wife as a (illegible) for herself
and my daughter Sallie M., who is at this time a femme sole or unmarried woman & that
the rents, profits and issues of said lands & the use of said personal property be used and
enjoyed by my said wife and my said daughter for a support and maintenance as long as
they remain unmarried, but should my said daughter marry then in that event it is my will
that my said wife be the sole owner of all of said real and personal property as long as she
lives or remains unmarried.
Item 5th:    Should my wife die or while in this life be so simple as to marry again,
then it is my will that all of said property be sold by my Executors either at public or at
private sale according to their discretion and the proceeds of said sales be equally divided
among all my children share and share alike with the restrictions and limitations as are
hereinafter set forth & detailed.
Item 6th:    Should my said daughter Sallie marry before my wife dies or marries
again, then it is my will that my wife give to Sallie household furniture equal in  value to
that we have given to my two other daughters when they married.
Item 7th:    I will and direct that my Executors sell at public or private sale at their
discretion all of the remainder of my property both real & personal and mixed and
collection of the debts due me and from the proceeds of the sales and collection of the
debts & money on hand at my death I direct that all my just debts be paid in full and the
remainder be equally divided between my children share and share alike (with the
restrictions and limitations as hereinafter set forth,) except that I give as special legacies,
to wit, to my daughter Sallie four hundred ($400) Dollars, to my daughter Zerlina C.
Peddy two hundred ($200) Dollars, to my daughter Mary Emma Wright Two hundred
($200) Dollars which special legacies are given to each one of my said daughters as that
sum or amount more than an equal share of my estate.
Item 8th:    The share that each of my sons would be entitled to out of my entire estate
when distributed, I will and devise said share in Trust to their lawful children and hereby
appoint each one of my sons the Trustee aforesaid.
Item 9th:    Should any one or more of my sons die having lawful children to survive
them or him, then in that event I will and devise that the share he received from my entire
estate be held and used and enjoyed by him or them as trust property during his or their
lifetime and I hereby give them or him the right and power to dispose of said Trust share
or property by and to any one or more of my children or Heirs at law or Grandchildren as
he or they will or desire or may think proper to give, and I appoint my executors to hold
the lawful titles to said Trust property mentioned in this the 9th item of my will.
Item 10th:    I appoint my sons Charles N. and William my executors to carry out and
execute this my last will and Testament to carry out and execute this my last will and
testament which has been written by myself and freely and voluntarily made and
published and I do hereby sign execute publish and declare this the said (illegible) last
will and Testament which I do in the presence of the attesting witnesses and they by my
request subscribe it in my presence and in the presence of each other.  Witnessed and
executed, 17 Feby 1885.
                        Lucius H. Featherston
John W. Powell    Geo. H. Carmical
B. H. Wright        C. F. Hollis
W. A. Dent        Daniel Swint

Georgia, Coweta County
Ordinary Office, Jany 8, 1886.
    Before the undersigned, the Ordinary of said County in person came B. H. Wright
and David Swint who being sworn depose and say that we, to wit, the 17th day of
February A. D. 1885, Lucius H. Featherston, then of said County, but now deceased,
requested John W. Powell, W. A. Dent, Geo. H. Carmical, C. F. Hollis, and deponents to
witness the execution by him, the said L. H. Featherston, of the writing hereto attached as
his last will; that he the said Featherston then and in the presence of the said named
witnesses signed, declared and published said paper and writing as his said will, that the
said witnesses thereupon at his request and in his presence and in the presence of each
other severally inscribed their names to said paper as such witnesses and their several
signatures and that of the Testator thereto are genuine.    The deponents further say that
the said L. H. Featherston at the time and in the execution of said paper was of sound
mind and executed the same freely & voluntarily.
Sworn to & Subscribed before me in the day first aforesaid, W. H. Persons, Ordinary.  
B . H. Wright, Daniel Swint
Recorded Feb. 16, 1886  W. H. Persons, Ordinary