Logan Co KY Will Bk M
pg 104) I, S.M. JOHNSON a farmer of Logan County State of Kentucky make this my last will. I give devise and bequeath my estate and property, real and personal, as follows, that is to say: That after my just and honest debts are paid I bequeath to my wife Mary A. JOHNSON all my property both real and personal including land, stocks, bonds, cash, notes & all other property of which I may be possessed at my death during the term of her natural life, and at the death of my wife Mary A. JOHNSON I bequeath to my daughter Leah R. JOHNSON and her children, all the property that I have willed to my wife except five dollars which amount I will to my son George W. JOHNSON he having received his part of my estate before this date, and I hereby appoint George A. KING a farmer of Logan County Executor of this my will.
In witness whereof I have signed and sealed and published and declared this instrument as my will, at Adairville this twenty eight of November One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy One.
S.M. JOHNSON
The said S.M. JOHNSON at said town of Adairville County of Logan on the said twenty eight day of Nov One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy One signed and sealed this instrument and published and declared the same as and for his last will and we at his request and in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto written our names as subscribing witnesses.
S.C. GOOCH
C.L. TISON

I hereby decline to qualify as Executor of the foregoing being at present a non resident of the State of Kentucky this 28th day of July 1879.
George A. KING
State of Kentucky, County of Logan
At a County Court held for Logan County at the Courthouse in Russelville KY on Monday the 28th day of July 1879 the foregoing instrument of writing purporting to be the last will and testament of S.M. JOHNSON deceased was produced in open Court and proven by the oaths of S.C. GOOCH and C.L. TISON the subscribing witnesses thereto to be the act and deed and last will and testament of said decedent whereupon the Court ordered the same to be recorded as the true last will and testament of said S.M. JOHNSON deceased, which together with this certificate has been duly recorded in my office. Given under my hand as Clerk of said Court, this 15 day of August 1879.
Jno G. ORNDORFF, Clerk
By E. A. HAIL, D.C.
A copy
attest: M.B. MORTON, Clerk
By C.R. REID, D.C.