In the name of God Amen:
I George Coil of the County of Fayette
and the State of Ohio.
Beloved wife Elizabeth - all my
estate--my plantation on which we now reside--all live stock--all except one
gray mare--to my grand daughter Mary Ann Coil.
Rebecca Ann Coil two dollars--another
grand daughter.
Wife Elizabeth household furniture,
hogs, sheep, and other items not particularly named to have and hold during her
life.
Wife Elizabeth to devise to the
children after her death:
To son Gabriel: plantation, he must
pay my three daughters namely Susannah Penner(?), Elizabeth Connel and Mary
Jinks--one hundred dollars each.
One dollar to each of the heirs of
Jacob Little Sr., and Rebecca Little, his wife.
Two dollars to the heirs of William
Jinks and his first wife Sabina.
3rd day of October 1847
X mark
George Coil
Witness:
John S. Burnate (?)
Enoch Bush
Moab Henkle
Howard
County, Indiana Death Record
Book CH-17, Page 7, Local No.91