Amanuensis Monday~Will of Frank P. Taylor, 1899.

 
Amanuensis Monday is a genealogy blogging theme. It was started by John Newmark who writes the TransylvanianDutch blog.
 His definition of Amanuensis is:
Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.

Today’s subject is the Will of Frank P. Taylor, 1899.




Transcription:
State of South Carolina}
Chesterfield County}
Know all men by these presents that I Frank P. Taylor of the county and state aforesaid, being of sound and disposing mind, knowing that life is uncertain and that death is sure and believing that each individual should arrange his business while in such mental condition, hereby revoking all former wills made at any time by me heretofore, and as to my worldly estate and all property, real, personal or mixed, which I shall be seized and possessed or to which I shall be entitled at the time of my decease I devise and dispose dispose thereof in the following manner to wit:
First. My will is that all my just debts and funeral expenses by my executors herein after named be paid out of my personal estate as soon after my decease as shall by them be found to the best interest of all parties concerned.
I give, devise and bequeath to my beloved wife Cornelia E. Taylor and my three sons, J. Oscar Taylor, Edwin R. Taylor and Karl F. Taylor all my real property, consisting of as tract of land on which we now reside and the remainder of my plantation known as the Kentrick Lowry and Baker lands to use in common during my wife’s natural life, and at her death to be equally divided among the remaining heirs, Taxes and incidental expenses to be paid equally by all out of the net proceeds of the estate, until a permanent division is made.
The whole and general management of the real and personal property to be controlled and managed by three executors on their succession to be herein after named in this will.
If the three executors herein after named, should fail to agree in the management of this real property they are hereby authorized to call  in a special executor to act temporally in the adjustment of any dificulty  <sic> that may arise and whose decision shall be final.
If either of my children shall have died before such division, leaving lawful issue such issue to receive the parents share, but if there be no issue, then such fund to fall into the general fund, to be divided among the survivors in the manner before directed.
Provided my beloved wife should die before either of the minor heirs should become of age, then the executors shall have an equal division made among the remaining heirs.
I hereby appoint and constitute my dear beloved wife Cornelia E. Taylor, James Oscar Taylor and Robert E. Rivers executors to this my last will and testament. The executors herein before named are hereby required enter in a bond considered good and sufficient by Probate Judge in this County before whom they shall be made and executed. The requirement of the bonds shall be similar to those in cases of guardians and administrators. In case the executors to this will herein appointed should die before they qualify as such the Probate Judge by and with the approval of the Clerk of Court shall appoint three good and discrete persons in their places. In case of the death or refusal of one or both of the remaining three it shall devolve upon the remaining ones to fill the vacancy by appointment.
Inn witness whereof I set my hand and Seal this the twenty first day of June One thousand eight hundred and ninety nine.  Signed and sealed in the presence of
Witnesses                                                           F.P. Taylor {L.}
Robert Tucker
R. P. Tucker
S. B. Timmons
South Carolina}   In Probate Court
Chesterfield County}
In re Est.}
F. P. Taylor}
We hereby acknowledge that R. E. Rivers is due us nothing whatever as Executor of the Will of F. P. Taylor, dec’d., or otherwise as to said Estate and we hereby release him from all liability as to said estate.
October 19th, 1908                                                    J. O. Taylor
Witness: M. J. Hough {Seal}                                    Karl F. Taylor
Probate Judge



Transcription:
South Carolina}    In Probate Court
Chesterfield County)
Ex parte J. O}
Taylor & R. E. }
Rivers, Executors}
In re Est}
F. P. Taylor}
Dec’s}
To: The Probate Court
In the will of F. P. Taylor on file in your office the petitioners together with C. E. Taylor were appointed Executors of the Will of the said F.P. Taylor.

All debts against the Estate were settled by the heirs & not by the executors.

All the property real & personal went to those provided for in said will—

Mrs. C. E. Taylor and Edwin Taylor have died since the will was probated – Mrs. C. E. Taylor left as her only heirs K. F. Taylor & J. O. Taylor, Edwin Taylor having died without issue before his mother & all the property of F. P. Taylor by the terms of the said Will goes to L. O. Taylor & K. F. Taylor -  

No funds ever came into the hands of the Executors & they have nothing to account for.---

Therefore being nothing to return they ask that they me be app discharged as such executors.-

Sworn to before me}                                        R. E. Rivers
19 October 1908}                                             J. O. Taylor
M. J. Hough}
Probate Judge}

Franklin Pierce Taylor married Cornelia E. Rivers daughter of  William M. “Billy’ Rivers and Ann Eliza Kelley. They had three children, all boys. Their first born, James Oscar, arrived on 27 August 1875 so it is believed that they were married sometime in late 1874.
 
This family experienced a lot of tragedy beginning with the death of Franklin Pierce Taylor on 27 July 1899 followed with the death of the middle son, James Edwin Taylor,  on  28 August 1899. After losing her husband and son so close together Cornelia E. Rivers Taylor passed away on 15 March 1906. Then Karl Franklin one of the two remaining boy passed away on 20 August 1913 leaving James Oscar the only surviving family member. 


Cornelia Rivers is my 2nd Cousin 4 times removed and the boys are my 3rd cousin 3 times removed.