Will of Dr. Oliver Oglethorpe Simpson
Contributed by Wanda Snyder
Will - File # H-927
GEORGIA, GWINNETT COUNTY
I, O.O. Simpson, of said State and County, being of sound and disposing mind and memory, do make this my last will
and testament, hereby revoling and annulling all others heretofore made by me.
ITEM 1. I desire and direct that my body be buried in a decent and Christian like manner.
ITEM 2. I desire and direct that all my just debts e paid without unnecessary delay by my Executors hereinafter named.
ITEM 3. It is my will and desire that the proceeds from all of my estate, both real and personal shall
first go to the support and maintenances of my wife, for and during her natural
life. Second for repairs and taxes, if there is then a residue it is to
be places in some bank to the credit of said estate.
ITEM 4. I nominate and appoint O.O. Simpson, Jr. and J. Howard Webb, Executors of this my last will
and testament and I will that they execute the provisions hereof without giving
bond, without making inventory or appraisement of my said estate and without
making any returns to any court of their acts and doings as such Executors.
ITEM 5. I will and devise that my said Executors may sell and dispose of any of estate, at public or
private sale, looking to the best interest of the estate and they be empowered
to make purchases and exchanges of such property as they may deem advantageous,
that they be empowered to make and execute title to any and all of my estate by
virtue of this will, without obtaining leave from any court so to do and
without and advertising. It is the intention of the Testator that the
Executors preserve the corpus of the estate.
ITEM 6. It is my will and
desire that after the death of my wife that the residue of my estate is to be
divided among my chidren, then in life, share and share alike. If any one
of my children be dead at the time of this division, leaving child or children,
then said child or children is to have the share of their deceased parent.
This the 13 day of December 1939.
O.O. Simpson (SEAL)
Signed, sealed, declared and published
by O.O. Simpson, as his last will and testament, in the presence of us, the
undersigned, who subscribe our names hereto in the presence of siad testater,
after he had signed his name thereto, and at his special instance and request,
and in the presence of each other.
This the 13 day of December 1939.
A. H. Leitch
W. D. Flowers
J. S. Nesbit
MINUTES Book U, page 443 Gwinnett County Probate Records
PETITION AND PROCEEDINGS FOR PROBATE IN SOLEMN FORM.
PETITION.
GEORGIA, GWINNETT COUNTY,
TO THE COURT OF ORDINARY OF SAID COUNTY:
The petition
of O.O. Simpson, Jr. & J. Howard Webb shows that on the 4 day of March,
1943, O.O. Simpson Sr., late of said County, departed this life, after having
made and published his last will and testament, in which he named your
petitioners as Executors. Petitioners shows that the following named
persons are the heirs at law of said deceased, to wit: Mrs. O.O. Simpson,
Norcross, Ga. Mrs. C.L. Goforth, Gainesville,Ga.,O.O. Simmpson Jr.,
Norcross,Ga. Mrs. J. Howard Webb, Norcross,Ga. Miss Lida Simpson, Norcross,Ga.
Mrs. C.E.Kirkpatrick, Norcross,Ga.,Mrs. Charles Breithaup, Atlanta,Ga.
R.F.D.& Mrs. Harold Carlyle,Norcross,Ga. said heirs resdie at the above
places and are all sui juris.
Petitioner produces
said will in Court and prays that it be proven in solemn form, and to this end
pray that the said Mrs. O.O. Simpson, Mrs. C. L. Goforth, O.O. Simpson Jr.,
Mrs. J. Howard Webb, Miss Lida Simpson, Mrs. C.E. Kirkpatrick, Mrs. Charles
Briethaup, Mrs. Harold Carlyle be cited to appear at the next term of the Court
of Ordinary of said County, to be held on the first Monday in May, 1943 next to
show cause if any exists, why said will should not be proven in solemn form and
entered of record as the last will and testament of said deceased, and that
letters testamentary issue to petitioners in terms of the law.
This 29 day of March, 1943.
O.O. Simpson, Jr.
J. Howard Webb
(etc....)
