Will of Edward Hall

ORIGINAL WILL OF EDWARD HALL

I, Dora N. Henry, Clerk of County Court of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing will is a true and correct copy of the Orginal Will which appears of record in my said office in Will Book D, Page 172.
This copy was taken from the original will on file.

Dora N. Henry, Clerk
Estill Co. Court

By: Carlyn C. Baber
D.C.
This 18 day of August, 1975

In the name of God Amen I Edward Hall of the County of Clark and the State of Kentucky being in sound mind and memory calling to mind the mortality of this body and certain of death when it shall please God to call me home do make ordain and deliver this to be my last will and Testiment and none other revoking and disallowing all other will or wills and this only to be taken for my last Will in the first place my will is that all just debts be paid and secondly that my body shall be decently enterred my will is that my beloved wife shalll have a decent maintanace out of my estate such as to have one third if she thinks proper to take it the balance of my estate I will to my son Bryant Hall both real and personal to have the same at my death my will is that the balance of my six children shall have nothing (to wit) Thomas Hall, Garret Hall Jefse Hall Martin Hall James Hall and Elizabeth Welshe late Elizabeth Hall shall hold the amount they have severlly rec and no more of my estate at my death and lastly I constitute and appoint my trusty friend and son Bryant Hall executor of this my last will and testiment in testimony where - of -- I have unto sit my hand and seal this 23rd day of January 1835.

Attest his
James Bybee Edward X Hall (seal)
John M. Barber mark

The above will was found due to Hellen Hall Harvey’s faith and long years of searching for proof that Martin Hall was a son of Edward Hall. I met Mrs. Harvey many years ago when she was traveling with her step-son Don. I introduced her to my relative who had been researching the decendants of Edward Hall since the 50s. Helen Hall Harvey was born in 1903 and lived to be almost 100.

Edward Hall’s Will is a Key Stone that lists all of his children. Garret Hall is mentioned in Milly (Unknown) Hall’s, wife of Edward Hall, Revolutionary pension statement.

Edward Hall said in his Revolutionary pension statement that “he lived in the fort at Boonesboro” “he left said service aforsaid on the north side of the Kentucky River”. Edward Hall was awarded land that he claimed in the summer of 1779 on October 24, 1834 and recorded in Montgomery County, but located in present day Menifee County.