LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF ABRAM S PIATT:
In the name of the Benevolent Father of All, I, Abram S Piatt being of
sound mind and deposing memory do make and publish this my last will and
testament. Item 1 - I direct that all my Just debts shall be first paid.
Item 2 - I give, devise and bequeath to my beloved wife, E Belle Piatt,
all my goods and chattels, lands and tenements situated in Logan County,
Ohio to be to her, her heirs, executors and administrators and assigns
forever. Item 3 - I hereby nominate and appoint Dow Aikin to be the Executor
of this my last will and testament. Item 4 - Whereas, by the terms of a
deed from Rufus King, Trustee, to Eleanor W Piatt there is granted to said
Eleanor W Piatt an estate for her life in the following described real
estate: 1st Tract: All that tract or parcel of land lying and being in
Section 21 and fractional Section 15, beginning at a point in the west
line of Section 21 which is 130 poles and seven links south of the N.W.
corner of said section which point is also the southwest corner of Lot
No. 10 as Surveyed by A.A. Harbison, County Surveyor, on July 25th and
26th, 1815; thence south with the west line of said Section 21, 131 poles
and 1/2 links to a stake in the original section line in a barren; thence
east 1 3/4 westerly variation allowed, crossing the south channel of Mackacheek
114 poles, 554 poles to three small hickories, black oak and cherry bush
in Ludlow line; thence with said line north 20 W. allowing a 1/2 westerly
variation from the original line 278 poles to a small and large jack oak
in said line, corner to said line, corner to said Sections 15 and 16; thence
west between said sections 15 and 16, 74 poles more or less to a pile of
stone in the dry channel of a creek, which pile is the N.W. corner of lot
no. 1 aforesaid; thence south 63 1/2 121 poles to a stone on the edge of
a prairie 129 links S. 62 W from a burr oak crossing Mackacheek several
times; thence south 1 1/4 W. 48 poles and 7 links to a stone on the bank
of a creek crossing creek at 8 1/2 and 12 poles; thence south 31 W. 32
poles and 9 links to a stone crossing creek at 1/2 and 6 1/2 poles; thence
west 262 5/8 poles to the place of beginning, being 584 85/100 cres of
land. 2nd Tract: That certain other lot or parcel of real estate lying
and being in Section 16 Town 5 Range 13 E. adjoining the above described
premises on the N.E. and being lot No. 3 of the A.A. Harbison Survey aforesaid.
Beginning at the corner between sections 15 and 16 at two jack oaks in
Ludlow line; thence west on the line between said sections 15 and 16 77
poles more or less to a stake in dry channel of creek; thence North 73
1/4 E 73 poles to a stone in the Ludlow line; thence with said line S.
20 E 24 poles crossing creek at 8 poles to the beginning, containing eleven
acres. With the remainder over to me Abram S. Piatt for the term of my
natural life with remainder over to Charles B. Piatt, Mary A. Piatt, Jacob
I. Piatt and Don W. Piatt and the survivors of them for the term of their
natural lives, in equal shares, and remainder over to their issue and the
heirs and assigns of such issue forever; and it is further provided in
said deed that in the equal partition and allottment of such shares, the
share which included the stone mansion house and the mill should be allotted
to the said Don W. Piatt, if living, but otherwise the partition and allottment
shall be in all respects determined by Eleanor W. Piatt and Abram S. Piatt
or the survivor of them by last will and testamentary writing signed by
such survivor, and whereas the said Eleanor W. Piatt, Don W. Piatt and
Charles B. Piatt have all died leaving no issue, and the said Jacob I.
Piatt has died leaving issue now, I Abram S Piatt, as such survivor, pursuant
to he powers in me vested by said deed and to carry out said powers and
with the intent of keeping the stone mansion house in the Piatt name, do
hereby apart and allot to the children and heirs at law of Jacob I. Piatt,
deceased, as their equal share of the said estate that part or allottment
upon which i s situated the stone mansion house and mill. Beginning at
a point in the north line of said farm three feet distant at right angles
from the south edge of the waters of the mill race at high water mark;
thence in a southerly direction parallel to and three feet distant from
said high water mark to a point where said line intersects the east line
of the orchard and lot surrounding the stone mansion house; thence with
said east line and lot of orchard and said lot extended to a point where
it intersects with the north line of the lot surrounding the old log house
extended east; thence south to the south line of said farm; thence west,
north and east following the lines of said farm as they meander to the
place of beginning to be to the said children and heirs at law of Jacob
I. Piatt and to their children and their heirs and assigns forever. I do
hereby further apart and allot to Mary A. Piatt Worthington named in said
deed as Mary A. Piatt and to her children and their heirs and assigns forever:
Beginning at a point in the north line of said farm three feet distance
at right angles from the south edge of the waters of the mill race at high
water mark; thence in a southerly direction parallel to and three feet
distant from said high water mark in said race to a point where said line
intersects the east line of the orchard and lot surrounding the stone mansion
house; thence with said east line and said east line extended to the point
where it intersects with the north line of the lot surrounding the old
log house extended; thence with said north line west to the center of the
north and south highway; thence south with the center of said highway south
to the south line of said farm; thence east, north and west following the
lines of said farm to the place of beginning, to be to the said Mary A.
Piatt Worthington and to her children and their heirs and assigns forever.
It is hereby declared to be the intent of item fourth of this will to exercise
the power of appointment vested in me by said deed of said King, Trustee,
so that said Mary A. Piatt Worthington and her children and the children
of acob I. Piatt may have and enjoy as nearly equal as possible amounts
of land the said children and heirs at law of Jacob I. Piatt getting the
stone mansion, the mill and race and the lands north of the race and west
of road in front of the stone house and the said Mary A Piatt Worthington
and her children and theirs and assigns forever, the old Log House and
the lands lying between the stone house and road in front of it and the
Ludlow line. I hereby revoke all former wills by me made. IN WITNESS WHEREOF
I have hereunto set my hand this twenty second day of July, 1907. /s/ ABRAM
S PIATT Signed and acknowledge by the said Abram S Piatt as his last will
and testament in our presence and signed by us in his presence and the
presence of each other and at his request. /s/ D.F. Legge /s/ Dow Akin
Will obtained from Logan Co OH Will Book C:459-463 and submitted for publication
in Piatt Family Newsletter, Volume 7, 1992. Original spelling of document
retained, underlineing added.
with much thanks to Laverne Ingram Piatt for providing this document.
back to start page
back to documents