The Aberdeen weekly., 1906-11-23
Mrs. Jefferson Davis Will.

Vicksburg, Miss, Nov. 19.-This
afternoon the last will and testa-
ment of Mrs. Narina Jefferson Da-
Wis was filed in the chancery
clerk office by Murray F. Smith
and Joe Hirsch. The filing was
done in the presence Of Joel Hayes,
son-in-law of Mrs. Davis, who Is the
sole executor Of the estate without
bond. The document follows:
81, Varina Jefferson Davis Of
Warren county, Mississippi, and Of
Beauvoir, Harrison, county, Miss,
being Of sound and deposing mind.
DO make this my last viii and testa-
ment, as follows:
l leave to my husband, Jeffer-
son Davis, and my only surviving
child, Margaret Howell Davis
Hayes, wife Of Joel Addison Hayes
Of Mississippi, but now Of Colorado
Springs, Colo, my property, real
and personal, with the exception Of
my life insurance in the Equitable
Insurance Company Of New York,
which insurance Is not to be sub
ject to any debt for my funeral ex-
penses or any other charge Of my
residuary legatee, solely my daugh
ter, Margaret H. d. Hayes. From
my bequests to her l also reserve
Beauvoir house and the lands be-
longing to the tract, of which, hope
TO dispose for another purpose while
| live, and my daughter quite coin
cides with me in this wish The
amount of my paid up policy in the
Equitable Insurance Company Is
SO, 900 OF this sum | leave Miss
Anna Davis Smith, $1,000; Miss
Margaret Green Davis, 81 900; my
neices, Narina Davis and Mary Lea
cock Howell, the orphan children
81 900. To my faithful old nurse,
Mary Ahern, for her ten years low
/ ing care Of my deceased daughter,
/ Y. A. Davis, 1000; to my sister
Margaret W. :. Stoess, 81 900; to
DR.. James Shorter OF Macon, Ga,
in memory OF his professional ser
vices, $500; to my faithful maid,
Margaret Josephine Connolly, ST.
900; to Margaret Elizabeth Hooks,
Of Lee 5 Station. La. $50.
will write letter of instruc-
ton nay child and to my dear and
much beloved son-in-law, in which
| viii designate such trihes as wish
to leave to friends whose ministra-
has been consolation and comfort to
me in my old age, and | DO not de
sire this letter published or filed
do not wish my Will filed or pro-
probated here, as have 40 property
in this state, nor do / consider it in
any degree home, but only a kind
Of health resort from the heat of the
Southern climate, in which | was
born and lived, but which is not
now heathful TO me. ! ann very
desirous that my mothers remains
be brought from Montreal, where
they are now, and inferred by the
side Of my father in the cemetery
near Montgomery, and | feel en-
tire confidence in my dear, tender
daughter conforming to my wishes
III lIllS ana every particular III ntF
power to perform. ! leave my
landed estates and the income from
them chargeable with an annuity
Of 5000 annually, payable in month
ly, to my sister, Margaret D. w.
Stoess. as long as she lives, or at
least as long as my child can pay it,
which she may not be able to do
without Inconvenience after an in
undatiOn of our estate. | therefore
leave this cause to be fulfilled as her
feelings may dictate, being very
sure she will do as she can This
annuity to terminate with my
sisters life.
NARINA JEFFERSON DAVIS
March 26. 1901.