This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CLARKE, GRAY Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JU.2ADI/551 Message Board Post: Will of Henrietta M.H. Clarke filed by a son, Robert Clarke, in Perry County Alabama on 11 JULY 1859. Unfortunately, the date was not complete on the will. Henrietta M.H. Clarke of the County of Perry and State of Alabama, do make, publish and declare my last will and Testament, as follows, 1st I direct my funeral expenses and just debts to be paid. 2nd I direct my executor heren after named to divide my property - Real personal and mixed in to four equal parts, on part of which I give and bequeathe unto my son Robert - one part to my son Andrew Berket - one part to my daughter Virginia and the remaining part to my ____ son Robert on trust - that he shall hold the same for the benefit and use of my daughter Roberta for and during her natural life and at her death divide the same equally between such of the children of my said daughter as may then be alive, and the descendants of such of her children as may be dead - share and share alike - except the descendants of such of my said Daughter Robera as shall not survive her ___ to take the portion to which their deceased parent would be entitled if alive, 3rd If my said daughter Roberta shall die leaving no children her surviving or should such children as she may leave surviving her die before attaining twenty one years of age I give and bequeathe the said remaining fourth part herein disposed of as aforesaid, to such of my children as shall be then alive and the descendants of such as shall be dead - the said descendants to take the share to which their decesed parent would be entitled if alive. 4th I heereby constitute and appoint my son Robert, Executor of this my last will and testament and having full confidence in his prudence and integrity I hereby direct that the Probate Court shall require no security of him on his taking out letters testamentary on my estate. In witness whereof I hereto set my hand and seal this the ____day of June A.D. 185_ H.M.H. Clarke Witnesses Y.L. Royston G.W. West