Will of MIZNER, John, Sr.
Will Book 1 · Page 98
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I John Mizner senr. Of Franklin County & state of Kentucky being in a low state of health bur perfectly in my senses & right mind and knowing that is appointed once for
all me to die I therefore commend my spirit into the hands of my maker who gave it & my body to the earth from whence it came to be interred in christian burial by my
Exexutors and as it respects my earthly substance after my honest debts & funeral rites are paid. I do dispose of it in the following manned (to wit) and first of all I give to
my beloved wife Lydia Mizner the plantation on which I now reside together with all the farming utensils pertaining thereto with three horses & three negroes any of which she
is at liberty at my deceased to make choice of together with my stock of every description sufficient for her support all of which she is to hold in full possession during her
natural life & at her deceased I give the plantation together with a proportional part of farming Utensils stock household & kitchen furniture that may then be in her posession
and agreeable to the shares my other married children have received To my son Jeremiah Mizner & his heirs forever except 48 acres of the said plantation I give to my son
James Mizner & his heirs forever which is to be taken off the extreme Eastern part of it the possession of which he may have at the decease of his mother or before if she
chooses to give him possession. 2ndly I give the place which I purchased of Lewis L. Stoll to my sons John Mizner & Joseph Mizner & to their heirs forever which is to be
divided between them by the great Harrodsburgh road which runs through it the said road to be the dividing line the choice of shares they shall determine by lot & the one
that gets the share of the less value shall not receive of the other any remuneration for the inequality of valuation. 3dly My daughter Melvina Mizner and James Miznor my
son if they should marry & leave their mother I wish her to give them such articles as my other married children have had provided she can spare them. 4thly after my decease
& Lydia Mizner my wife has taken the portion assigned her then the Balance of my property Negroes stock notes Bills & accounts of every description I give into the hands of
my Executors to be equally distributed amongst all my children and at the decease of my wife Lydia Mizner all the property that may then be in her possession & not otherwise
distrubuted as ordered above. I give also into the hands of my executors to be also equally divided amongst all my children and lastly appoint my sons John Mizner and Joseph
Mizner to put onto full force & effect this my last will & testament whom I constitute & decree my lawful executors & representatives. In witness where of I do hereby resind &
make void & disannul all former will or wills, Testament or Testaments that I may every have made and I do acknowledge this to be my last & only act of the kind no extant.
Given under my hand this 12th day of July A.D. 1821.
John Mizner Senr. {seal}
Signed sealed & acknowledged unto
In the presence of us
Test
Jordan H. Walker
John Parker
Franklin County Set. November Court 1821
The last will & testament of John Mizner, Senr. Deceased was produced to court & proven by the oaths of Jordan H. Walkier & John Parker the two subscribing witnesses
& was ordered to be recorded whereupon the same is truly recorded in my office.
Att. Willis A. Lee Clk.