____________________________________________________________________________ Abstract made by an unknown abstractor about 1890 from original records of Pike County, Arkansas and recorded in Abstract of Title Book Prior to 1890 ____________________________________________________________________________ Will Book A page 132. Last Will and Testament of William Jasper Jackson. Dated May 23, 1887 at Morrilton, Arkansas. "First, I desire and direct that all my just debts be fully paid, that my personal property shall be appropriated to the payment of the same, and if there should not be sufficient &c. I desire that the remainder shall be paid out of the proceeds of my real estate." Items Second and Third disposes of personal property. Fourth, I desire that each of my children shall have an equal interest in the remainder of my estate both real and personal, and that my real estate shall not be divided until my youngest daughter Mattie Bell Jackson arrives at the age of Eighteen years, and that she shall have a support from the proceeds of the rents of my land until she arrives at that age. Fifth. I appoint and constitute my son William A. Jackson of the County of Pike and State of Arkansas executor of this my last Will and Testament. Attest, J.O.A. Bush (and) Bettie S. Flaherty. July 27th 1887. Bettie S. Flaherty of Pike County, Arkansas being duly sworn, on oath says: that she was present &c. and saw said testator sign his name by mark (x) to said Will, that the same was read to him &c. and he declared the same to be his last Will and Testament, and at his request and in his presence (and in the presence) of each other, the said witness attested said Will, and that she believed him to be of sound mind and memory at the time. Subscribed and sworn to &c. before me. J.O.A. Bush, Clerk. August 3rd 1887. J.O.A. Bush attesting witness makes affidavit verifying the same state(ment) of facts set out by Bettie S. Flaherty before Chas. E. Stell, Clerk Circuit Court. Recorded August 8, 1887. ____________________________________________________________________________ Abstract of Title Book Prior to 1890, page 312. ____________________________________________________________________________ HTML file and design by David Kelley, 1997. All rights reserved.