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Submitted by Pat Merrill Helton, Ireland1934@bellsouth.net
Also see Thomas Lowrey RW Pension;
Lowrey Deeds;
Lowrey Genealogy Report
Thomas Lowry's Last Will and Testament
Clark County, Kentucky Courthouse,
Wills, Inventories and Settlements, Book 11.
In the name of God Amen I Thomas Lowrey of the County of Clark and State of
Kentucky being in perfect health and as usual in mind and calling to mind the
uncertainty of human life And desiring to dispose of all such worldly estate as
it hath pleased God to ___ with, I give and bequeath the same in manner
following that is to say I do bequeath unto my beloved wife Nancy Lowrey all of
my estate both real and personal out of which she is to pay all of my just debts
and funeral expenses, and she is to hold the same during her natural life free
from any claim of my children as heir ship and at her death the hole of my
estate if any be left is to be divided equally amongst all of my children, and
and lastly I do constitute and appoint my friend Pleasant Bush as my executor of
this my last will and testaments hear by revoking all other or former will ___
___ ___ In so much I have hereunto set my hand and fixed my seal this 21st day
of April 1841.
Attest:
Pleasant Bush
Jane Bush
James Lowry Last
Will & Testament
Clark Co., Kentucky
I will writ my will as want it. I set a side all the wills ever writ
or had writ as dead null and void The will I made to Thomas Adams and his wife
Mary Adams his wife is not my will, that the said Thomas Adams and Mary Adams
his wife shall have one cent of my estate, neither land nor money when I decease
this life. I will all my land sold that I own in Clark County Kentucky and when
the money is collected for the same land and notes I will name then who I want
to have my money and now one else. I will George Hayden tow hundred dollars,
will my sister Ann Osburn two hundred dollars.
I will Edd Slaughter five hundred dollars. I will Nicholas Merrill
fifty dollars. I will my sister Soffie one hundred dollars. I will Nancy Lowry
wife of William Lowry fifty dollars, when all is paid of above name I will the
balance when all is paid of above to my brother Lud Lowrys children has a ___
right to do what he plese with his own. I will my bed and stead and piless and
all my house hold goods to Edd Slaughter. I will my horse to James Lowry a son
Lud Lowry, but Thomas Adams and Mary Adams his wife clear out of my will. The
will made to Thomas Adams and Mary Adams his wife is null and void. This is my
last will and testament this first day of June 1882
James Lowry. His will
James (X his mark) Lowry
Attest: Henry Ecton
Dillard (X him mark) Ecton
August 27, 1885 Attest : Anwarda Moohu Wm Birch
I appoint h C. Heart executor of Will ___
Clark County Court, Sept Term 1885 } Sept 28 1885
The paper purporting to be the last will and testament of James Lowrey decd, was
this day produced in open court and ordered to be filed and continued for
probate until the 6th day of Oct. 1885.
A copy. Attest Jesse E. Gordon Clerk
Clark County Court Sept Term 1885} Oct. 6th
The paper purporting to be the last will and testament of James Lowrey
decd, was again produced in Court and fully proven according to law by the oaths
of Henry Ecton and Dillard Ecton subscribing witnesses thereto, The codicil
thereto attached was fully proven according to law by the oaths of Wm Birch and
Anwarda Moohu subscribing witnesses to said codicil. Whereupon said will and
codicil to said will is established and adjudged by the Court to be the true
last will and testament of James Lowry deceased and ordered to be recorded as
such.
A copy attest
Jesse E Gordon Clerk
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