Described as follows: to wit: - Beginning on a white oak known as the beginning corner of a State grant to David Miller, and running a South West course with Mariah C. Alexander’s line to where said line intersects S.T. Featherston’s line to the corner: thence with the line of the land formerly owned by A.M. Featherston to a stake in a branch below Thomas Case’s line; thence with said branch to the head of a ditch; thence down said ditch thirty poles to a white pine and three maples; Thence North twenty teen (?) degrees west to the back line claimed by A.M. Featherston thence with said line to the beginning together with all and singular the rights, members, hereditaments and appurtenances, to the said premises belonging to or in every wise incident or appertaining, and being the same tract of land belonging to William Featherston prior to the 28th day of May, 1870, and sold by Sebon T. Featherston as assignee in Bankruptcy of the said William Featherston on the 28th day of May 1870, and a deed therefore made to Mary E. Featherston, which deed is registered in the office of the Register of Deeds for Henderson County in Book ___ at page___ and being the same land described in a partition proceedings dividing the lands of A.M. Featherston deceased by B.H. Merrimon, G.B. Johnson, John Woodfin, John Miller, Jesse Featherstone and James Brittain, Commissioners between William Featherston, S.T. Featherston and Mariah S. Featherston legatees under the will of A.M. Featherstone and designate as Lot no. 3, which proceedings is recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of Henderson County in Book No.12 – at page 217 et seq, to which partition proceedings Book and page and particularly Lot No. 3 reference is hereby made for a further description of said land.
It is further considered ordered, adjudged and decreed that the defendants N.B. Featherston, S.M. Featherston, Emma Featherston, Lillie Featherston, Mamie Featherston, Sallie Featherston, Minnie Featherston and Alice Stepp and her husband Decatur Stepp are the holders of the bare naked legal title to the said lands, they being the sole survivors of the said Mary E.Featherston deceased, and as such are holders of the same as trustees for the use and benefit of the plaintiff A.A. Featherston it is further adjudged and decreed that this decree and judgment shall operate as a conveyance of the legal title to the lands above described from the defendants N.B. Featherston, S.M. Featherston, Sallie Featherston, Minnie Featherston, Lillie Featherston, Mamie Featherston, Emma Featherston and Alice Stepp and her husband Decatur Stepp to the plaintiff A.A. Featherstone; and it is further ordered by the court that this judgment be recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds for Henderson County with records therein kept for registration of Deeds.
As to J.B. Featherston sec. B.F. Long
convenient payment Judge Presiding
assigned allowing 20 days
to answer on conditions. B.F.L. Judge
Filed for record at 3 o’clock P.M. this 15 day of Nov. 1913 and recorded in book 82 folio 53
S.M. Ring
Register of Deeds
B.Morris, Deputy
Submitted by: Mrs I.D. Oakley,
Jeremiah Featherston Last Will and Testament
(KFH: Jeremiah, son of Carolus and Lucy (Elmore) Featherston – Branch #1)
In the name of the benevolent Father of all , I Jeremiah Featherston of the County of Marion and State of Indiana do make and publish this my last Will and Testament.
Item1st. I give and devise to my beloved wife Anna Featherston as long as she remains my widow and in lieu of her interest in my lands, one third of the farm on which I now reside situate in the County of Marion, in the State of Indiana it being the west half of the south east quarter of section seventeen (17) in Township Fourteen (14) in Range Four (4) East; containing about Eighty (80) acres, also one third of my three lots in Alion(?) addition to the town of Zionsville in Boone County in the state of Indiana, known and numbered as Lots thirty four (34) Seventy one (71) and seventy two (72), and one third of my five (5) acres it being the south half of the south half of the north half of the north half of the East half of the North west quarter of section twenty four (24) in Township Fifteen (15) in Range three (3) East, it being in the County of Marion in the State of Indiana.
Also a sufficient amount of my stock, household goods and furniture provisions and other goods and chattels which may be thereon at the time of my decease as long as she remains my widow as aforesaid, which amount of stock Household goods Furniture provisions and other goods and chattels shall be determined by my Executors hereinafter appointed.
If my said wife should not survive me then I devise and bequeath the property devised and bequeathed to her as aforesaid to my children as follows to wit.: to my sons John G. Featherston, William E. Featherston, James G. Featherston, Robert J. Featherston, Jeremiah M. Featherston and my daughter Nancy Mariah Bradley to be equally divided between them.
I also give and devise to my children as aforesaid the remainder of my personal property goods and chattels moneys on hand and moneys loaned out not before bequeathed to my wife as aforesaid to be equally divided between each of them as aforesaid after selling so much thereof as may be required to pay all my just debts, paying my funeral and burying expenses, and a sufficient amount to build a good plank fence around the grave yard hereinafter described and Twenty-four dollars which I bequeath to my son Charles G. Featherston and twenty-four dollars to my daughter Lucy Ann Neal and twenty-four dollars to my grandson Jeremiah Samuel Kuser and twenty-four dollars to each of my granddaughters as follows: to Lydia M. Kuser, Anna Kuser and one hundred dollars to Jeremiah Robert Osterbrigg my other grandson.
If my personal property as aforesaid should not be sufficient to pay the amounts as aforesaid then I desire that the Real Estate as aforesaid less one half acre should be sold and out of proceeds of said lands make up the deficiencies of said sums and the remainder of the proceeds thereof to be equally divided between my sons John G. Featherston, William E. Featherston, James G. Featherston, Robert J. Featherston, Jeremiah M. Featherston and my daughter Nancy Mariah Bradley. The half acre above reserved is on the Farm on which I now reside known as the family Grave yard and which I now reserve for the use of my family for that purpose with the right of way to and from the cont.
same it is described as follows to wit: commencing eleven feet due south east of a cherry tree that is on the south side of Burwell Featherstons grave, and running due north to the north line of line of the farm on which I now reside as herein before described thence due west south of said cherry tree as aforesaid thence due east to the place of beginning.
Item 2: I do hereby nominate and appoint William E. Featherston and James F. Featherston my two sons Executors or Administrators of this my last will and Testament hereby authorizing and empowering them to take charge the moneys willed to Jeremiah Samuel Kuser, Lydia M. Kuser, Anna Kuser, Susan Kuser and Jeremiah Robert Osterbrigg until they arrive to the age twenty one and then pay the same over to each one of them as aforesaid, also to compromise, adjust release and discharge in such manner as they may deem proper the debts and claims due me. I also direct that my executors or administrators have the power to sell said personal property without appraisement and public sale as aforesaid.
I do hereby revoke all former wills by me made, in testimony hereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this nineteen day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and sixty. 1860.
Jeremiah Featherston (Seal)
Signed and acknowledged by said Jeremaiah Featherston as his last will and Testament in our presence; and signed by us in his presence.
Levi L. Todd
Geo. Tomlinson
State of Indiana :
Marion County : SS:
Before me William Wallace Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Marion in the State of Indiana personally came George Tomlinson and Levi L. Todd subscribing witnesses to the foregoing instrument of writing who being by me first duly sworn upon oath depose and say that Jeremiah Featherston the testator named in the instrument of writing purporting to be his last will and testament did sign seal publish and declare the same to be his last will and testament on the day of the date thereof, that the said testator was at the said time of the full age of twenty one years and of sound and disposing mind and memory, and that he was not under coercion compulsion or restraint, and that he was competent to devise his property.
And that the said testator so signed sealed published and declared the same to be his last will and testament in manner and form as aforesaid in the presence of affiants and that they each attended the same and subscribed their names as witnesses thereto in the presence and at the request of said testator and in the presence of each other
Levi L. Todd
George Tomlinson
Subscribed and sworn to before me. In witness of which I hereunto affix the seal of said Court and subscribe my name at Indianapolis this 22 day of September A.D. 1864
William Wallace - Clerk cont.
I William Wallace Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Marion in the State of Indiana do hereby certify that the foregoing last will and testament of Jeremiah Featherston has been duly admitted to Probate before me.
That the same was proven by the examination under oath of Levi L. Todd and George Tomlinson the subscribing witnesses thereto and that a full and complete record of the said will and of the proof and examination of the witness by whom the same was proven has been made and is now of record in Will Record C. of said County on pages 519, 520, 521.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the said Court and subscribed my name at Indianapolis this 22 day of September A.D. 1864.
William Wallace – Clerk
Recorded September 22 1864
Submitted by : Frank Merriman
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2 May 1841. Court of Equity, York Co., SC. Case 109
The heirs of Daniel Smith as listed on May 2. 1841.
Sarah Smith, widow.
John Smith
Rachel McKinney
Abraham Williams & Sarah Williams his wife.
John Morrow & Cynthia Morrow his wife
John Moore & Ann his wife
Mary A. Smith
Araminta Smith
Ellen Smith (under 21 years of age)
2 Nov 1852, Sarah Smith of York District, S.C. gives slaves to daughter Rachel Featherston, wife of Richard W. Featherston and to her children by both her present husband, Richard W. Featherston, and her former husband, Johnathan McKinney, deceased.
(JFH: Richard Wesley Featherston (son
of Richard, Jr. and Elalah Pratt (Fulton) Featherston (Branch #5) married Rachel
Jeffries (Smith) McKinney).
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