THE FOLLOWING IS A TRANSCRIPT OF THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF ISAAC SPENCE OF THE SPENCE COMMUNITY IN THOMAS COUNTY GEORGIA. I HAVE A COPY OF THE ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENT. STATE OF GEORGIA --- THOMAS COUNTY IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. I, ISAAC SPENCE OF THE COUNTY AND STATE AFORESAID BEING OF ADVANCED AGE AND KNOWING THAT I MUST SHORTLY DEPART FROM THIS WORLD, DEEM IT RIGHT AND PROPER, BOTH AS RESPECT MYSELF AND MY FAMILY THAT I SHOULD MAKE A DISPOSITION OF THE PROPERTY WITH WHICH A KIND PROVIDENCE HAS BLESSED ME. I THEREFORE MAKE THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT, HEREBY REVOKING AND ANNULING ALL OTHERS HERETOFORE MADE BY ME. ITEM 1ST. I DESIRE AND DIRECT THAT MY BODY BE BURIED IN A DECENT AND CHRISTIAN LIKE MANNER SUITABLE TO MY CIRCUMSTANCES AND CONDITIONS. MY SOUL I TRUST SHALL RETURN TO REST WITH GOD WHO GAVE IT AS I HOPE FOR ETERNAL SALVATION THROUGH THE BLESSED LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST WHOSE RELIGION I HAVE PROFESSED AND AS I HUMBLE TRUST ENJOYED FOR FORTY YEARS. ITEM 2ND. I GIVE AND DEVISE TO MY GRANDAUGHTERS NAMELY ELVY AND LARINDIA CONER, HEIRS OF MY DAUGHTER MARY CONER, ONE COW AND CALF APIECE AND ONE FEATHER BED AND IT'S FURNITURE APIECE. ITEM 3RD. I GIVE AND DEVISE TO MY SON THARPE SPENCE TWO COWS AND CALVES. ITEM 4TH I GIVE AND DEVISE TO MY BELOVED WIFE HANNAH THE REMAINDER OF MY PROPERTY WHATEVER IT MAY BE: CONSIST OF LOT OF LAND ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY EIGHT IN THE 17TH DISTRICT OF SAID COUNTY AND MY CATTLE, HOGS, HORSE OR MULE AS I MAY OWN AT MY DEATH AND ALL MY PLANTATION TOOLS AND ALL OTHER TOOLS OF ALL DESCRIPTION WHATEVER IT MAY BE. ALSO ALL MY HOUSEHOLD AND KITCHEN FURNITURE AND ALL MY DEBTS THAT IS OWING TO ME, TOGETHER WITH ALL THE CASH THAT I MAY HAVE AT MY DEATH AND ALL THE REST OF MY PROPERTY WHATEVER IT MAY CONSIST OF IN ANY WAY TO BELONG TO MY BELOVED WIFE HANNAH AS NAMED IN SAID ITEM. TO BE FOR HER USE AND BENEFIT HER LIFETIME TO USE AND DISPOSE OF IT IN ANY WAY TO LIVE ON FOR SUPPORT AND AT HER DEATH WHAT IS LEFT I DIRECT AND ADVISE FOR IT TO BE SOLD AND DIVIDED EQUALLY BETWEEN MY SON THARPE AND MY TWO GRANDAUGHTERS NAMELY AS IN ITEM SECOND WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ONE HALF ACRE OF LAND AT THE GRAVEYARD WHICH I RESERVE FOR A GRAVEYARD. ITEM 5TH I CONSTITUTE AND APPOINT MY BELOVED FRIEND JOHN J. RAGAN EXECUTOR TO THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT THIS AUGUST THE TWENTY FIFTH DAY EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY NINE. HIS ISAAC (C.) SPENCE MARK SIGNED SEALED AND DELIVERED AND PUBLISHED BY ISAAC SPENCE AS HIS LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT IN THE PRESENCE OF US THE SUBSCRIBERS WHO SUBSCRIBED OUR NAMES HEREUNTO IN THIS PRESENTS OF SAID TESTATOR AND EACH OTHER THIS AUGUST TWENTY FIFTH EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY NINE (1869). E. R. WILLI OF THOMAS CO. JOHN J. RAGAN OF THOMAS CO. J. BRINSON OF THOMAS CO. J. C. HENDERSON OF WAYNE CO. ITEM 2