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 the cemetery near Montgomery, and l feel confidence in my dear tender daughter conforming to my wishes in this and every other particular in her power to perform.
 I leave my landed estates and the incomes from them chargeable with an annuity of six hundred ($6OO) dol lars annually, payable monthly to my sister, Margaret de 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 inundatiOn of our estates. 1 there fore leave this clause to be fulfilled as her feelings may dictate, being very sure she will do all she can. This annuity to terminate with my sisters life.
 MARINA JEFFERSON DAVIS.
 March 26th, 1901
 Witnesses:
 A. H. Hart, M. D.
 A. J. Hamben.
 Witnessed this 26h day of March,
 Portland, Me, Aug. 18th, 1901.
 Codicil No. 1.
 l, Varina Jefferson Davis. make this codicil to my last will and testament written in New York and dated March 26th, 1901.
 do not wish to alter or change my will in any way, simply making these additions to the same, which shall be a part of my will, the same as if it were in the original document. , It was my intention and wish to have left my trusted and well-beloved son-in-law, Joel Addison Hayes, an ,1, of nr,fu wifi h wife, my daughter, Margaret Howell Davis Hayes, but upon consulting him and at his special request, the pro perty which I intended to leave them jointly is left to my daughter but l desire to leave my dear son-in-law and faithful friend and hereby give and be- queath to him $350.0O with which to buy a mourning ring in memory of me as token of love.
 I hereby appoint my son-in-law. Joel Addison Hayes, my sole eXecutor, without bond
 If any of the legatees to be paid out of my life insurance should die before I do, the amount of money the one so dying was to receive shall be paid to my eXecutor and there shall also be paid to my eXcutor all other money ac- cruing from my life insurance. which has not been otherwise disposed of by my will.
 My executor shall have authority and power to collect the full amount of my life insurance from the Equit- able Life Association and to paw. the amounts to the legatees named in my will and in this codicil.
 VARINA JEFFERSON DAVIS.
 Frederic Henry Gerrish. Clara M n. r,1l es, l6th August, 1901.
 An exceptional fact in connection with all of these wills is that each app pears in the original writing of the testator. and there is no evidence in any of them of the assistance of a lawyer or a typewriter.
 In connection with the Dorsey-Davis estate located in Jefferson county. the part recently acquired by Mr. Triplett there is a bit of local history that will revive the memory of the days of re- construction and carpet-ba9 rule in Arkansas.
 In the early 1o's, when Arkansas was under the control of Powell Clay ton and his Republican cohorts, one Stephen w. Dorsey was a member of the United States Senate. At about the same time, one o. P. Snyder was a Republican member of congress from this district
 It was during the reign Of the car pet-baggers that Mh. l. W. Monk, then a young man, and who is still an hon. ored citizen of this city, began to in- vestigate this property With a view of purchasing a portion of it.
 An investigation of the ownership showed il to be in the name of Samuel w Dorsey Mr. Monk reported this to o. P Snyder. who was his lawyer. Snyder, looking up the record, presum- ed that the name of Samuel should be Stephen, and, acting on this presump- tion, informed stephen w. Dorsey a Washington. that he. Dorsey. had cer- tain landed possessions in Jefferson county Dorsey is said to have replied that he had no knowledge Of any pro- perty in his name in Jefferson county.
 
 But he authorized Snyder, that in the event there should be any property ill his, Dorseys name in this county, 10 dispose of it.
 J. w. Monk made bargain for the property, and delivered wood to o. ?. Snyder's residence in Pine Bluff i'll payment for same. Snyder claimed that Dorsey owed him money, and that he, Snyder, would guarantee deed. After the payment for the land in wood, the deed was not forthcoming, whereupon Mir. Monk wrote to Senator Dorsey explaining the situation and requesting a deed.
 Senator Stephen w. Dorsey replied l that knowing of no property in this ! ...-I,x :,, ,,op1a bo only will |