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Note: Russell County, State of Kentucky, (To Wit) Will of Real & personal property. November 14, 1833. A Feleden Coffey of the County & State aforesaid being in the fear of God & of sound mind but aged & under the afflicting hand of Almighty God taking in consideration the certaintly of death & the uncertainty of life do hereby make my last will & testament in the following form, First after my decease that all my just debts & Funeral expenses be paid together with whatever interest I have promised to any person to be paid out of my estate. My two Negroes, Mandy Green & Rachel be sold to pay my said debts after which I wish the ballance of my property, real & personal there may be, to be kept together for the use & benefit of my children, herein named, just so long as my children think proper to keep house & live together & when my children think proper to break up housekeeping & to separate then I desire my Executor, hereinafter named, Elizabeth, Sealy, Feelden, Louis, Aley & the children (note: there were no commas between the childrens names) of my son Thomas H. Coffey as one of my equal Heirs. I do hereby appoint my beloved brother & friend Hays Coffey as my Executor of this. Signed, sealed & acknowledged in the presence of this 14 November 1833, Feelden Coffey (seal) Joseph M. McMillan Jonathan Williams Adam Kernes Jr. On Monday, 13 January 1834, the last Will & Testament of Feelden Coffey, decd. was produced in open Court & proven by the oaths of Joseph M. McMillen, Adam Kernes Jr. & Jonathan Williams, subscribing witnesses thereto whereupon the motion of Hays Coffey, Executor therein named, having taken the oaths required & acknowledged Bond in the Penal Sum of $3000.00 with William Payne & Willis Coffey as his securities, conditioned as the law directs. William S. Patterson, C.R. An Inventory & Appriasal of the estate of Feelden Coffey, decd. made 17 Jan. 1834 We the undersigned appraisors, appointed by the Russell Co. Couirt, proceeded to appriase all that was shown to us. 1 Negro Woman named Nancy $300.00 1 Negro Boy named Jacen $250.00 1 Negro Child Named Silvey $60.00 1 Bay Colt $15.00 1 Pided Cow $6.00 1 Pied Heifer $4.00 1 Pied Heifer $3.00 1 Yoke of Oxen & Yoke $25.00 18 Geese $2.50 1 Negro Girl named Rachel $150.00 1 Sorrel Mare $40.00 1 Sorrel Colt $18.00 11 Head of Sheep $10.00 1 Red Cow $6.00 1 Red Cow $3.00 1 Red Cow $6.00 21 Head of Hogs $30.00 1 Wire Sieve $1.50 1 Asoe (Hoe?) $1.25 3 Asoe (Hoe?) $1.25 14 Still Tubs & Kegs $5.00 1 Loom & 4 Sleys $6.00 3 Pr. of Gear $6.00 1 Whiskey Barrel $.75 1 Flax Wheel $1.00 Table, Cupboard & Furniture $10.00 8 Chairs $2.00 1 Crain (?) $1.75 1 Trunk & Meal Sifter $.75 1 Walkers Large Dictionary, Gipsons Surveying, Dicks Philosophy & a Multitude of other books, all for $10.00 2 Hoes, Logchain, Singletree and a Clevice $2.00 1 Still $10.00 1 Cotton Wheel $1.00 Kettle, 2 Pots, 2 Ovens, skillet & Pot Hooks $6.00 1 Drawing Knife, Auger, Bell, Flat Iron & Chissel $2.00 1 Cut rear (?) $.50 2 Beds, Furniture, Hutch, Stead $20.00 1 Churn $.50 3 Schooters, serost (?), Braces & a Wedge $4.00 Sythe & Cradle, Shovel Plow & Singletree $2.00 1 Surveyors Chain $2.00 Amount in the whole to $1032.50 Hays Coffey, Executor John Haynes Hiram Rowe Adam Kernes Jr. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The property of Feilding Coffey, Decd. sold on 24 May 1834 by Hays Coffey, Exec. Adam Kernes, 1 Negro Child $70.50 John Ellis, 8 head of Sheep $6.00 Sale Coffey, 1 Cow $6.06� Wm. Smith, 1 Heifer 5.12� Isaac Knight, 2 Mobby Stands $.45 Wm. Payne, 1 Tub, w Kegs $.50 Wm. Smith, 1 Horse Beast $15.00 Adam Kerns, 1 Yoke of Steers $27.25 Sale Coffey, 1 Heifer, $2.87� Reuben Lawless, 1 Still $12.50 Wm. Kimber, 2 Mobby Stands $.37� Henry Yakey, 2 Stands $.06� George Carter(?), 3 Stands $.50 On Monday, 1 September 1834 an Inventory & list of sale of the Estate of Fielding Coffey, Decd., was returned & ordered to be recorded. Charles Epperson, Deputy Clerk for Will S. Patterson, C.R.C.C.
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