I LUCRETIA HOLLOWELL of the County of Trigg and State of Kentucky do hereby make my last will and testament in manner and form following that is to say: 1st. I do give to my brother IRWIN HOLLOWELL my negro woman Venus and her two children Minerva aged about two years and Alfred about six months old and their increase and said IRWIN HOLLOWELL is to give to all my brothers and sisters twelve months after my decease the sum of five hundred dollars to be equally divided out among them. Said IRWIN HOLLOWELL is to reserve to himself an equal portion of said five hundred dollars with the rest of my brothers and sisters. 2nd. I give to my sister ELIZA A. R. BRANDON, the land which I purchased of LOTT HOLLOWELL containing 85 acres on these terms that Lott HOLLOWELL is to have the use and benefit of fifteen acres on the North corner of said land including the Mannor House and Spring to be laid off to him by my executor in manner that said executor may think most convenient and said LOTT HOLLOWELL is to have the benefit of getting fire wood and lumber anywhere on the uncleared land as long as said LOTT HOLLOWELL lives and at the death of said LOTT HOLLOWELL the fifteen acres of aforesaid with all the appurtances therewith belonging or in ....... give it to ELIZA A. R. BRANDON her heirs or a ...... LOTT HOLLOWELL...take the said fifteen acres of land on condition that he is to live on it and should he leave said land he is not to sell his interest therein but ELIZA A. R. BRANDON is to have the possession of it and use it as her own until said LOTT HOLLOWELL gives her six months notice in writing that he wishes to live on said fifteen acres of land again and said ELIZA A. R. BRANDON is not bound to reserve wood or lumber for said LOTT HOLLOWELL, but he is to put wood and timber on.... with her during his term if the wood and timber last so long. 3rd. I will and desire that my executor sell my negro boy Sam either publickly or privately as he may think best and shortly after my decease sell my perishible estate and apply fifty dollars....the perishible property towards....up the family....yard and take a sufficient sum from said perishable estate and from the proceeds of the sale of my Negro boy Sam to defray my funeral expenses and to put grave stones to my grave, the residue of the proceeds of the sale of my Negro Sam and perishible estate I give to my brothers and sisters to be equally divided amongst them after paying my brother NOAH HOLLOWELL the sum of about twenty dollars which I owe him and other debts and expenses. And lastly. I do hereby appoint and constitute my brother IRWIN HOLLOWELL Executor of this my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 20th day of March in the year 1851. LUCRETIA HOLLOWELL (seal). Witness: WILLIAM PARKER, THOMAS PARKER.
I, NOAH HOLLOWELL, In consideration of the uncertainty of life and afflicted with sickness, though of sound mind and memory do make and publish this my last will and Testament. (to Wit:) 1. I will that my grave be dug 2 ft. and 2 in. deep besides the vault, the vault to be made large enough and deep enough so that the box containing the cofin may not touch anything, the box to rest on 2 dry bricks, the cofin to be made out of hart of black walnut wood, the plank to be one and a fourth inches thick, the coffin to be well made and lined with white flannel. I want my grave to be west of the graves of my father and mother's graves, with a monument to be of the best materials, the box containing the coffin, after it is placed in the vault, is to be covered with hart of white oak plan, before the grave is filled up. 2. I give six hundred dollars ($600.00) to put iron railing around the grave yard where I am buried. 3. I give unto EDWARD HOLLOWELL Seventy acres of land it being the place I purchased of J. P. HOLLOWELL and known as the Brookins Place and two hundred dollars, the money to be paid to him as his necessities may require it. 4. I give unto LUCRETIA, the daughter of ELIZA BRANDON, three hundred dollars. 5. I give MOLLY MITCHELL, the daughter of LOTT HOLLOWELL, two hundred dollars. 6. I give unto MARY HOLLOWELL, wife of ROBERT HOLLOWELL, three hundred dollars. 7. I give unto NOAH HOLLOWELL, son of ROBERT HOLLOWELL, six hundred dollars. 8. I give unto brother IRWIN HOLLOWELL six hundred dollars. 9. I give IRWIN S. HOLLOWELL one acre of ground, beginning at my corner in the middle of the dry fork near said HOLLOWELL's dwelling house, running down the dry fork 13 and 8/10 poles to a stake, thence S 50 E 12 and 8/10 poles to a stake, thence S 40 W 12 and 8/10 Poles to a stake, thence N 50 W 12 and 8/10 poles to the beginning. 10. I give unto WILLIAM HOLLOWELL, CLAYTON HOLLOWELL, BURK HOLLOWELL and WEBSTER HOLLOWELL, the following tract of land. (To Wit:) Beginning at a hickory and white oak on the bank of dry fork, running with the lane fence (the true course to be found by reference being to an old deed recorded in the Caldwell County Clerk's Office) to a short distance past a crop fence to an old dividing line between me and IRWIN HOLLOWELL, by our father, MILES HOLLOWELL, thence with said dividing line to a dogwood, B. F. BROWN's corner, thence with BROWN's line to a white oak, another of BROWN's lines to poplar, the beginning corner of Roberts Military Survey. IRWIN HOLLOWELL and said BROWN's corner with IRWIN HOLLOWELL's line to the beginning. The land to be divided according to quality and quantity into four equal parts, and one part to be given to each of the four above named persons. CLAYTON HOLLOWELL, to have the lot for his part that the house he now lives in may be in. I give also to WILLIAM HOLLOWELL, CLAYTON HOLLOWELL, BURK HOLLOWELL and WEBSTER HOLLOWELL each two hundred dollars. 11. I give unto RAILY HOLLOWELL two hundred dollars. 12. I give unto ISAAC NEWTON HOLLOWELL, son of BARBARY HOLLOWELL, one hundred and thirty dollars. 13. I give unto MORGAN HOLLOWELL one hundred and fifty dollars. 14. I give unto ANNA, daughter of WILLIAM HOLLOWELL, one hundred thirty five dollars. 15. I give unto BETTY HOLLOWELL two hundred dollars. 16. The residue of my estate I will to be equally divided amongst the following persons (To Wit:) I. P. HOLLOWELL, ROBERT HOLLOWELL, IRWIN S. HOLLOWELL, WILLIAM T. HOLLOWELL, IRWIN BRANDON, EDWIN BRANDON, PENELOPE LARKINS, SAMUEL LARKINS, HENRY LARKINS, CARROL LARKINS, SOVEREIGN LARKINS, JOHN LARKINS, MARY LARKINS, ADLINE LARKINS, SOVEREIGN HOLLOWELL and NOAH HOLLOWELL, but should surplus exceed the amount previously given then the surplus of said surplus is to be equally divided amongst all the persons named in this will, except the children under age whose shares are not to be increased by the surplice. I do hereby constitute and appoint THOMAS PARKER and JOHNATHAN P. HOLLOWELL Executors of this my last Will and Testament this 28th of November 1872. NOAH HOLLOWELL. Witness: B. F. BROWN, F. M. BROWN. (Proved 17 December 1872, Caldwell Co., KY).
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