Unrecorded Will of Sally Clement 1857

 

    “ In the Name of God Amen

I Sally Clement Being in a low state of health but of Sound and disposing memory I hereby make my last will and Testament first and foremost I Commit my Soul to God that gave it to me and my boddy to the dust from Whence it came to be buried after a Christian manner and after all ntmy lawful debts and funeral Expences are paid  I dispose of what wordly property which God has been  plased to be bestow upon me in manner and form as followeth to wit

 First  I will and bequeath to my beloved Son Francis M. Clement Two Colts one dining Table  one chest  Two sheep and my interest in the present growing crop

 Second  I will and bequeath to my five Daughters and my grand Daughter Susan Jane Cruise   Three hundred dollars wich is in the hands of Francis M. Clement to be equally divided between them that is to say fifty dollars to Moriah Owins  fifty dollars to Elizabeth Coleman  fifty dollars to Paulina Champion  fifty dollars to Nancy Love  fifty dollars to Parthena Bennett and fifty dollars to my grand Daughter Susan Jane Cruice &c.  Given under my hands this the 27^th day of August 1857.  

                                                                                [signed]  Sally Clement 

 Test:

Henry R.D. Coleman

Catherion E. Coleman

Kittie D. Hodge”

 Sometimes will went unrecorded. The testator might change his/her mind about the disposition of his property or it could be the will had been placed with the county clerk and it was forgotten until long after the testator had passed away. Even though the will was not recorded, it is still valuable if it contains names.

 This unrecorded last Will and Testament of Sally Clement was found among loose wills in the Crittenden County Clerk’s office many years ago. The 1850 Crittenden County census [1] shows Sarah Clement, age 64, born Virginia, in the household headed by Isham Clement, aged 69 and also born Virginia. Also in the household was Francis M. Clement, age 21, born Kentucky.  Isham Clement wrote his will 19 Sep 1850 and it was proven and recorded 21 Nov 1856. [2]

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[1] 1850 Crittenden County, Kentucky census, Dist. 1, Roll 197, p. 229a, Isham Clement household, Ancestry.com

[2] Will of Isham Clement, Will Book 1, p. 61, Crittenden County Clerk’s Office.

Published 15 Oct 2020, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

Tombstone Tuesday - Agnes Clement Ellis

A.A. Ellis

1843 - 1915

Buried Smithland Cemetery, Livingston County, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 11 October 2017.

Agnes A. Clement  Ellis died 22 January 1915 and was buried in Smithland Cemetery the following day. Her parents were William B. Clement, born Virginia, and Margarett M. Nunn, born Kentucky.[1]

Agnes A. Clement married James Ellis 23 August 1865 Crittenden County, Kentucky.[2] He had previously been married to Sarah L.A. Jennings and Sarah J. Clement. James and Agnes A. Ellis appear on the 1870 and 1880 Livingston County census records in Smithland. James Ellis died in 1884 in Louisville, Kentucky[3]

Agnes Clement Ellis' obituary appeared in the Livingston County Enterprise and was reprinted in the 4 February 1915 issue of the Crittenden Record-Press in Marion, Kentucky.  It stated that Mrs. Agnes Ellis died at the residence of Wharf Master, T.L. Thompson.  "She was visiting Mrs. Thompson, whose former husband was her brother, when she was stricken with pneumonia and after an illness of about 12 days she succumbed" to the disease."[4]

Mrs. Ellis "came from old and honored families, her mother being a Nunn, and an aunt of Judge T.J. Nunn, recently a member of the Court of Appeals."[5]

Mrs. Ellis left one son, W.C. Ellis, Jr., a step-daughter, Mrs. G.D. Scyster, and three brothers, W.I. and Fred Clement, of Crittenden County, and Dr. T.S. Clement, of Fredonia.

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[1] Kentucky Death Certificate #2041, Mrs. A.A. Ellis, Ancestry.com, accessed 13 October 2017.

[2] Brenda Joyce Jerome. Crittenden County, Kentucky Marriage Records Vol. 1  1842-1865 and Abstracts of Wills Book 1  1842-1924, (Evansville, IN: Evansville Bindery, 1990) 111.

[3] Tombstone reading of James Ellis 2015: "James Ellis  born in Golconda, Illinois  13 Oct 1825  died at Louisville, Ky 4 June 1884."

[4] "Good Woman Goes to Her Reward," Crittenden Record-Press. Thursday, 4 February 1915, p. 1.

[5] Ibid.

Published 6 February 2018, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

Tombstone Tuesday - Jesse & Sallie Olive

Jesse Olive

Feb. 8, 1858

Aug. 11, 1938

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Sallie His Wife

Dec. 26, 1860

May 7, 1927

 

Buried Mapleview Cemetery, Marion, Crittenden County, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 9 June 2011.

 

According to his death certificate, Jesse Olive was born in Salem, Kentucky and was the son of Jesse Olive and Barbara Ann Gray. His birth  year is given as 1857 and he died in Louisville. Sallie Ann Olive was the daughter of Newton Walker, born Fords Ferry, Kentucky, and Jane Clement, born Marion, Kentucky. Sallie also died in Louisville. Jesse and Sallie married 21 September 1880 Crittenden County.

 

Published 10 September 2013, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog,  http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/