KY, Clark Co., Will Book 3, p. 282   {7764}

Will of Jemima Kertley   [#4/1]
Dated:  14 Oct 1817
Proved:  23 Feb 1818
Description:  see below
Executors:  not named
Witnesses:  James Gay, Sr. [#41/1 ?], Robert Gay, Jr., Lenard Kirtley

"Kertley Jemima 
Last Will & Test.           I allow my body to be decently entered the ground and the expense to be paid Out of my Estate  I allow my debts to be paid out of my Estate.  2 I leave to my daughter Mary Gay [#41] one of my Canopy    3   I leave to my daughter Gemima Simpson [#42] one half Dosin of silver teaspoons this I give to her   4   I leave to my son Bengimin Kirckley [#43] one Canopy this I leave to my son and to his daughter Gemimey I leave my Gold ring and I leave to my son Bengime Kirckley two sows and four pigs this I leave to him.  5 I leave to my daughter Sally Noe [#45] my press six cups and sasers one sitz plater to __?____ four tumblers tee Cettle Cofe Mill pole and Cettle ten gallon a dish oven and two Dishes one trunck one bond on bond of Eighty dollars on Line Roberts one half dosens of nives and forks I leave my Coins to my daughter Sally Noe five hogs and foreteen shotes I leave to daughter Noe my cheast and a bedstead and trunck I leave my glace my [chinng?] and pasls   6  I leave to my son bevery Kirckley [#44] children I leave James Kerckley [#441] twenty five dollars I leave to travis Kerckley [#442] twenty five dollars I leave to Peagey Kerckley [#443] one bead and furniture there one one hefer three year old this I leave to Peagey Kerckly I leave to John Kerckley [#444] twenty five dollars to scool him and one heifer I leave to Bevery Kirckely [#445] twenty five dollars to the use of scooling him. I allow my Mare to be sold and the rest of my Estate to be sold and to be equally devided with my children this my last Will and Testament in the Yeare of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventeen sined with my hand this the 14 day October.
                                        The word Dishes put in before __?__
                                            Jemima Kirckley
Witnesses
James Gay Snr
Robert Gay Jnr
Lenard Kirtley
    his mark

At a Court held for Clarke County on the 23rd of Febr 1818. This last will and Testament of Jemima Kerckley Decd. was produced in Court and proved according to law by the oaths of James Gay Sr. and Robert Gay Jnr. two of the witnesses thereto subscribed and ordered to be recorded.  Test James P. Bullock CCC    Examined”