Butler Co., KY, Will Book B, page 242
Will of James Lewis Chapman
To whom it may concern, I, James Lewis Chapman of
the County of Butler
and State of Kentucky, being of sound mind and memory, do make, publish
and
declare this to be my last will and testament to wit:
First, All my just debts and funeral expenses shall
be full paid
Second, I give, desire and bequeath to Bob Chapman
fifty acres of land
adjoining and being in the County and State aforesaid, including my
present
homestead, and is bounded as follows, to wit: Beginning on a white
oak on the big
road leading to Morgantown running thence with the road N64 poles to
a black
oak, thence N77 W48 poles to a stake, thence S70 W62 poles to a sugar
tree,
thence S85 poles to a stake in the division between John Harrelds and
Billy
Davis, thence N83 E94 poles to the beginning, containing fifty acres
and one eighth
be the same more or less, including all the personal property of every
description that may be on the place at my death.
Third, I give and bequeath to W. W. Chapman, Thomas
H. Chapman, Isaboomer
Bell Anderson, fifty do |