Will of WINGATE, Isaac
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I, Isaac Wingate of the County of Franklin and State of Kentucky, do hereby make this my last will and testament in manner and form following, that is to say.
1st. I desire that immediately after my decease all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid of any cash in hand or out of the sale of any personal property which my
Executions herein after named shall think best.
2nd. I give and bequeath to my wife Jane M. Wingate the farm on which I live containing two hundred and thirty one acres more or less to have an to hold during her
natural life and after her death I give and bequeath the same to my son Isaac Wingate, Jr. and his heirs forever.
3rd. I desire that my farm in this County know as the Carter farm be sold and also my tract of land lying on the Frankfort and Georgetown Turnpike road known as the
Forsee place be sold and the proceeds arising from the sales so made be divided equally between my daughters subject, however, to the advancements and limitations
herein made and specified.
4th. I give to my daughter Mary Watkins a tract of land containing about forty five acres including my old or former homestead and some personally valued by me at two
thousand dollars in all. I have given to my daughter, Martha A. French in land-money and other property twenty eight hundred dollars. To my daughter Lavinia Thomson
in money and other property to the amount of thirty four hundred and fifty dollars. To my daughter Susan Quinn in money and property two thousand dollars and to my
daughter Laura Dehoney in money and property two thousand dollars, these advances I desire shall be charged to my daughters in the final distribution of my property
and effects.
5th. I have sold to N. R. Risk a tract of land lying in this County containing about one hundred and ten acres known as the tract I bought of H. Thorn, the first payment
on which he has failed to meet and if he shall finally fail to perform the conditions on which the sale was to be confirmed the, I desire that it shall be sold and the proceeds
divided as follows, to wit: One moiety to be given to my daughter Lavinia Thomson and her children, George and Wingate Thomson or their heirs (her oldest son Worden
C. Thomson having been provided for by David Thomson his grandfather) and the remainder to my other daughters named above. I hold a Mortgage by assignment from
W. S. Dehoney of Frankfort upon a house and lot in said town for two Thousand dollars - two hundred dollars of which has been paid, this I give and bequeath to my
daughter Laura Dehoney and her children forever.
6th All my Bank Stock and turnpike Stocks, I wish sold and equally divided between my daughters after equalizing them under the item of advances.
7th. All the rest and residue of my property of whatever kind I desire shall be equally divided between all my children.
8th. Lastly I hereby appoint my son Isaac Wingate, Jr., and my son-in-law B. F. Quinn, Executors of this my last will and Testament, hereby revolking all other or former
wills by me made. Done this 4th day of April 1874.
Isaac Wingate
Attest
W. H. Averill
Eugene P. Moore
September 13th, 1875
In reviewing the within will dated April 4th, 1874. I have concluded to amend it this day, September 13th. 1875 and do amend it by this codicil, by which I declare it to be
my will that the bequests therein made to my daughter, Martha French and Lavinia Thomson shall be placed in the hands of G. C. Hughes, whom I hereby appoint Trustee
to hold and administer the money and other property I have bequeathed to them, in trust for them and for their use and benefit. Should said Trustee at anytime deem it
advisable to re-invest the money or other property he hold in trust for either the aforesaid devises, I desire him to consult with my executors and make such re-investment
as upon such conditions may be deemed advisable, for the proper use and benefit of said devises.
Isaac Wingate
Attest:
L. W. Seeley
W. T. B. South
Franklin County Court
Monday, July 3, 1876
A writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Isaac Wingate, decd. with a codicil thereto was produced to Court and the will was proven in the manner required by
law, by the oaths of Eugene P. Moore and W. H. Averill the subscribing witnesses thereto and the Codicil was proven in the manner required by law, by the oaths of L. W.
Seeley and W. T. B. South the subscribing witnesses thereto. Whereupon it was ordered that said will and codicil be admitted to record. Which is done.
Att: Jas. G. Crockett, CFCC
By Howard Jett, D.C