Will of Jesse Ricks, Pike County, Alabama

I Jesse Ricks of the County and State aforesaid being of sound and disposing  mind  and memory do make rdain publish and declare this to be my last Will and  Testament hereby revoking all wills or parts or Codes of wills by me  heretofore made and declare this only to be my last. 1st I will and bequeath to my wife Sarah Ricks all the lands and plantation on which I now live together with the following named Negroes ie (?) Billy and his wife Betty Silvy and her three children Hinson Polly and Miles and  other increase if any and Charles and Fortune and Mary.  Also my entire stock  of cattle and hoggs my sorrel mare and huffman horse and gray horse my two  horse waggon my ox cart and oxen and sufficiency of provisions and forrage to  last her and them one year and seventy five Dollars annually out of the  proceeds of other property together with as much of the household and kitchen  furniture and plantation tools as she may think necessary for her own  convenience the above named property to be hers and to remain with her during  her natural life or widowhood after to be applied as hereinafter directed

2  I have given my Grand Daughter Nancy Elizabeth Lewis only heir of the body  of Daughter Polly who was the wife of Necy (?) Lewis a negro girl Hannah  worth four hundred and Eighty dollars which said Negro and her increase of  any I do most earnestly desire and request may be delivered to her the Said  Nancy so soon as she arrives at a lawful age or Marries

3rd I have heretofore given to my daughter Delilah Dill who was the wife of  Robert Dill for the use of her bodily heirs a Negro Girl named Caroline worth  two hundred and Eighty Dollars 4th I gave my son John Ricks in his lifetime a  _________of land  four hundred Dollars and one hundred and fifteen dollars in cash a horse  bridle and Saddle with ninety Dollars and a Negro boy named Meradith worth  three hundred and  eighty dollars and have given to my daughter in Law Rachel  Ricks widow of my said Son John four hundred and Eighty Dollars  5th I will  and bequeath to my Daughter Elizabeth King wife of Collan B King for the use  of her bodily heirs a Negro Girl named Claricy and a Negro boy named Moses  the two worth five hundred and Eighty Dollars the rest of my property not  herein mentioned I desire to be sold and the dues collected and after paying  all my just Debts the rest of the money to be out on interest until the death  or marriage of my wife Sarah Ricks then the entire ballance of my property  except Billy and his wife Betty who I desire to be free and Robert Dill to be  their Guardian to be sold and as much of the proceeds given to each of my  grand children including what has been give to each several family as will  make each individual one of my grand children equal to my grand Daughter  Nancy E. Lewis the residue to be equally divided among my Grand children and  may the Sons in Law and daughter in Law  Lastly I do appoint and constitute  Judge S Williams and Robert Dill of Barbour County Execurors and my wife  Sarah Ricks Executrix of my last will and testament __________ be __________  the third and fourth from the top before assigned signed sealed published and  declared in presence of

                                                        s/Jesse Ricks
Thos Boswell
H C Williams
Wiley Stripling

The State of Alabama
Orphans Court
Pike County  
                           July Term 1838

In open Court personally appeared Thomas Boswell, Harman C Wiliams and Wiley  Stripling Subscribing witnesses to the foregoing will who after being duly  sworn says that they and each of them saw Jesse Ricks whose name is  subscribed thereto sign seal and deliver the same as and for his last will  and testamint on the day and year therein mentioned and that said ___________  Subscribed their names as witnesses witnesses thereto in the presence of the  said Testator Sworn to and Subscribed in  open Court the 2nd (?) day of July 1838.

H. C. Williams
Wiley Stripling
Thos Boswell
 

Additional information by Lyn Lucas:

Jesse Ricks, father of John Ricks of Autauga Co., Ala.
1 Aug 2001
From: LynS336@aol.com

My documented information is as follows:

Jesse Ricks d. about 1838; married Sarah [?]
 [Children:]
i.  Polly [Law] Ricks [?] m. Necy Lewis 15 August 1832 in Autauga County, Alabama (Polly was dead before 1838
        [Child:] (1.) Nancy Elizabeth Lewis
ii. Delilah Ricks m. Robert Dill  [Delilah was a popular given name in the family of Larry Ricks]
iii. John Ricks d. prior to 1836 m. Rachel Culp
 [Children:]
    (a) Sarah Ann Ricks b. Dec. 06 1820 d. Dec. 4, 1902 m. David Toole Waller
        [Children:]
                   (1.)   Mary Telitha Paralee Waller b. 1843
                   (2.)  Annetta Elizabeth Waller b. 1845  (my great grandmother)

    (b) Elizabeth Ricks b. 1822
    (c) Jesse Alexander Ricks b. 1827; m. Margaret Schooler
    (d) John William Ricks, b. Abt. 1828 m. Nancy E Barnes Sellers
    (e) Nathan Dixon Ricks b. Abt. 1831 d. Aft. 1898, Texas
    (d) Mary Selena Ricks b. Abt. 1835 m. William T. Hill
    (e) James Jasper Ricks b. Abt. 1829 m. Margaret V. Payne

iv. Elizabeth Ricks m. Collan B. King

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