Edward Porteus Ball
Will Book C, pages 51-52
Alexandria Clerks Office, Alexandria, Kentucky
I, Edward P Ball, being sound in mind but diseased in body do make this my last Will and Testament to wit; To my son Edward P Ball junior, I will two hundred acres of land being the upper part of the tract on which I live & that part on which Lively lived & is now in a state of litigation. To my beloved wife, Jannetta Ball, the two hundred acres of land on which we now live it being the lower or second part of the tract. This bequest is for her life time after her death to be equally divided among the children, but my son Edward B Ball, junior, is to have the refusal of it by payment to my others Heirs, the rate of Sixteen Dollars per acre. The balance of my land is to be sold when my younger Daughter Cardilia shall have become twenty years of age.
I further will to beloved wife, Jennetta, her choice of one third of my Negroes & all my house affairs, including kitchen utensils, beds, bedding etc. making every spiens? of property to my house.
To each of my Daughters, I will a Negro maiden girl, the balance of my Negroes with all my stock horsed, cattle, sheep, hogs, mules, etc, with all the grain on the farm as growing on it with all the farming utensils & every thing not heretofore willed, I will to my son Edward P Ball, Junior, who is to settle all my debts in full. And I further appoint my wife, Jannette Ball & my Edward P Ball, Junior, my administrators. I further state that the aforesaid Negroes willed to my son Edward, he is to hold only for the years out of which he is to have his choice of any and then to be equally divided among my heirs. By my heirs, I mean Edward P Ball Junior, Mildred H Kennedy, Jannetta V Martin, Nancy A Ball & Cardelia Ball, which are all of my children.
Signed: Edward P Ball
Campbell County, Kentucky
May 14, 1840
Attest: Zachariah Hedger
James Nelson
Codicil to the above will: In the tract of land willed to my son Edward, now in litigation & for which I have judgment, & Will that the writ of possession shall be opened on that same & further note that if necessary to pay my debts or if any of the foregoing Negroes willed to my son for ten years become refractory, he shall have full power to sell her or him as the case may be amounting to the estate or others Heirs as the case may be.
Signed Edward P Ball
May 14, 1840
Test:
Zachariah Heger
James Nelson
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Campbell County, June Court 1840
An Instrument of writing purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Edward P Ball, deceased, with the Codicil attached was this day produced to court and proven by the Oaths of Zachariah Hedger and James Nelson and was ordered to be recorded Which is accordingly done Even under my hand this 14th day of April 1842.
John N Taliaferro CCR