Muhlenberg County Kentucky
Wills: A
Samuel Allison, 1827
I Samuel Allison of the County of Muhlenberg being of Sound mind & memory do make & ordain this my last will & testament.
My will is that my funeral expenses & just debts be first paid out of my personal property.
I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Peggy Allison two acres of land including the dwelling house whereon I now live & the other out houses & the use of a sufficiency of timber off the balance of my land for firewood and to keep up the fences around the same, all the feather beds and furniture except those hereafter devised & one negro woman named Prudence during her widowhood. And I give to her absolutely two cows & calves & all the cupboard & kitchen furniture. I give & bequeath to my son William D. Allison one feather bed & furniture.
I give & bequeath to my Son Young E. Allison one feather bed & furniture.
I give & bequeath to my two sons John A. Allison & Samuel Hendley Allison all my real estate to be equally divided between them. To them & their heirs forever. I give & bequeath to my son John one negro boy named Jim Allen & the negro woman willed to my wife & her increase after the widowhood or death of my wife.
I give to my son Samuel Hendley Allison two negro boys; one named Lewis, the other named Cato. I give & bequeath to my daughter Nancy Jackson one negro boy named Jack.
The balance of my personal property that remains undisposed of my will is that it be equally divided between my two sons John & Hendley.
And my will is that my land be so divided as to give my son John half off the west side including the house & Samuel part of the east so as to include the old barn.
I do hereby appoint Ephraim M. Brank Sole executor of this my last will & testament & I do hereby revoke all & every other will heretofore made by me. In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand & seal this 8th day of August 1826.
Saml. Allison
Teste.
Alney McLean
Richard D. Reynolds
I do make the following as a codicil or alteration to my will. I leave to my wife the negro woman Prudence absolutely. To be disposed of as she may think proper.
My will is that my son John A. Allison have my negro boy named Lewis. My son Saml. H. Allison my negro boy named Jim Allen & my son Young E. Allison my negro boy named Cato. And my will is that the future increase of my negro woman Prudence at the death of my wife be equally divided between my two sons John & Saml. & my daughter Nancy Jackson. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 15th day of August 1826.
Saml. Allison
Teste.
Alney McLean
Richard D. Reynolds
Muhlenberg County Sct.
January County Court 1827
The foregoing last will & testament of Samuel Allison deceased was exhibited into court and proven to be the act & deed of said Allison by the oath of Alney McLean a subscribing witness thereto which is thereupon ordered to be recorded.
Att. Chs. F. Wing
Source: Muhlenberg County Kentucky Will Book 2, pp. 403-405.
Contributed by Rick Girtman
Updated July 27, 2022