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Facts and Events
Will
- WILL OF MARTIN WALE:
- RECORDED IN BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY WILL BOOK, PAGE 173 MAY TERM 1850
- KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, THAT, I MARTIN WALE OF BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY AND STATE OF KENTUCKY, BEING FEEBLE IN BODY BUT OF SOUND MIND AND DISPOSING MEMORY AND KNOWING THE UNCERTAINTY OF LIKFE AND THE CERTAINTY OF DEATH AND BEING DESIROUS TO DISPOSE OF ALL SUCH WORLDLY ESTATE AS IT HAS PLEASED GOD TO BLESS ME WITH, DO HEREBY MAKE, ORDAIN AND PUBLISH THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT IN THE MANNER AND FORM FOLLOWING, HEREBY REVOKING ALL WILLS OR TESTAMENTS OF ANY OTHTER DATE TO THIS.
- ITEM 1ST...IT IS MY WILL AND DESIRE THAT MY EXECUTORS HEREAFTER NAMED, SELL ENOUGH OF THE PERSONAL PART OF MY PROPERTY IMMEDIATELY AFTER MY DEATH, TO PAY MY JUST DEBTS AND LEGAL LIABILITIES TOGETHER WITH MY FUNERAL EXPENSES.
- ITEM 2ND...I GIVE AND BEQUEATH TO MY BELOVED WIFE NANCY WALES FOR AND DURING THE TIME OF HER NATURAL LIFE THE TRACT OF LAND ON WHICH I LIVE CONTAINING ABOUT THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY ACRES, TO LIVE ON OR RENT OUT OR USE IN ANY MANNER SHE MAY THINK PROPER. I ALSO GIVE HER THE FOLLOWING NEGROES, CLATEN, AARON AND DICK, GRACE AND MELINDA AND HER TWO CHILDREN LUCY AND LEWIS TO HIRE OUT OR USE IN ANY WAY SHE MAY THINK PROPER. I ALSO GIVE HER ALL MY HORSES, OXEN, CATTLE, HOGS, AND SHEEP, MY LARGE WAGGON, CARRIAGE AND HARNESS FOR THE SAME, ALL THE FARMING UTENSILS, HOUSEHOLD AND KITCHEN FURNITURE AND ALL THE REST OF MY PERSONAL PROPERTY OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, EXCEPT ENOUGH TO PAY MY JUST DEBTS IF THERE SHOULD BE ANY AGAINST ME AT THE TIME OF MY DEATH. ALL OF THE ABOVE NAMED PROPERTY WILLED BY ME TO MY WIFE I WISH HER TO ENJOY AS LONG AS SHE LIVES AND AT HER DEATH I WISH THE SAME TO GO TO MY CHILDREN AS HEREAFTER NAMED.
- ITEM 3RD...I HAVE GIVEN A TRACT OF LAND AND A NEGRO TO EACH ONE OF MY CHILDREN EXCEPT HENRY HARRISON WALE. TO HIM I HAVE NOT YET GIVEN ANY BUT IF I SHOULD RECOVER THE LAND I SOLD TO HENSLY RAMSEY, I GIVE AND BEQUEATH THE SAME AND THE BALANCE I OWN ADJOINING IT TO MY SON HENRY HARRISON WALE, BUT SHOULD I NOT RECOVER SAID LAND SOLD BY ME TO H. RAMSEY, THEN MY SON HENRY HARRISON WASE IS TO HAVE THE VALUE OF SAID LAND IN MONEY WHICH I ESTIMATE AT TWO DOLLARS PER ACRE.
- ITEM 4TH...I GIVE AND BEQUEATH TO MY DAUGHTER ELIZABETH SHREWSBURY THE NEGRO GIRL, ELIZA WHO I LOANED TO HER AND TO MY DAUGHTER MARGARET BOARD NOW LIVING IN THE STATE OF MISSOURI, I GIVE TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS, THIS BEQUEST TO MY TWO DAUGHTERS ELIZABETH AND MARGARETT I WISH THEM TO HAVE INDEPENDENT AND EXCLUSIVE OF AN EQUAL SHARE WITH THE BALANCE OF MY CHILDREN, NOT BECAUSE I LOVE THEM MORE BUT BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN MORE UNFORTUNATE THAT THE BALANCE OF MY CHILDREN.
- ITEM 5TH...I CANNOT MAKE A JUST ESTIMATE OF THE ADVANCEMENT TO EACH OF MY CHIKLDREN, BUT WISHING TO DO ENTIRE JUSTICE TO EVERY ONE OF THEM WITHOUT ANY PREFERENCE FOR ONE MORE THAT THAN ANOTHER, I WISH A FAIR ESTIMATE TO BE PLACED UPON THE ADVANCEMENT OF EVERY ONE THAT MAY NOW HAVE OR GET HEREAFTER FROM MY ESTATE, AND AN EQUAL DIVISION TAK PLACE AS THO I HAD DIED INTESTATE, EXCEPT THE NEGRO GIRL WILLED TO ELIZABETH SHREWSBURY AND THE TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS TO MARGARETT BOARD. I DO NOT WISH THEM TO ACCOUNT FOR THAT.
- ITEM 6TH...AT THE DEATH OF MY WIFE I WISH ALL THE PROPERTY WILLED BY ME TO HER, TO BE DIVIDED BETWEEN MY CHILDREN, VIZ, ELIZABETH SHREWSBURY, ANN BRATCHER, MARGARETT BOARD, WILLIAM B. WALE, HOPKINS O. WALE, AND HENRY H. WALE, WITHOUT BEING SUBJECT TO PUBLISH SALE, IF THERE HAS TO BE ANY SALE AT ALL. I WISH IT TO BE WITH MY CHILDREN ONLY, AND NO BODY ELSE TO BID AND I WISH MY EXECUTORS TO GIVE THEM ALL NOTICE AND THAT THEY OR THEIR LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES ARE PRESENT WHEN A DIVISION TAKES PLACE.
- ITEM 7TH...I DO HEREBY CONSTITUTE AND APPOINT MY TWO SONS HOPKINS O. WALE AND HENRY H. WALE EXECUTORS OF THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT.
- IN WITNESS WHEREOF I HAVE HEREUNTO SET MY HAND AND AFFIXED MY SEAL THIS 25TH DAY OF FEBRUARY 1847
- ...SIGNED, SEALED AND ACKNOWLEDGED IN THE PRESENCE OF:
- ATTEST...ROBERT PAYNE;
- ATTEST...ELIHU MAYSEY
- MARTIN WALE (SEAL)
- MAY 20TH , 1850...ABOVE WILL EXHIBITED IN COURT AND DULY PROVED
Records in Virginia
- Botetourt County, Virginia Deeds — Grantees
- 1803 Samuel Arnold from Martin Wale Bk 8 Pg 199
- Deed for land in Breckinridge County, Kentucky
- Botetourt County, Virginia Court Records: March 25, 1803, 5 June 1801:
- Richard Mitchell for sum of $400.00 conveyed 788 acres of land to James Martin Wale of Botetourt County, Virginia in the County of Breckinridge, formerly Nelson County, Kentucky, on head of Lost Run Creek, five or six miles south of Hardin's Settlement.
- Witnesses: John H. Madison, Nathaniel Nowell and John Allen.
- Recorded: Botetourt County, Virginia, Oct 12, 1802; Recorded in Breckinridge County, Kentucky, November 28, 1803.
- Biography of James Martin Wale
References
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- Historical atlas of Jasper County, Missouri, 1876. (Carthage, Missouri: Joan Kunkel, c1985).
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
Of Citizens of Jasper County, Missouri
Pages 18-19
Copied from 1876 Jasper County Historical Atlas
Published by Brink, McDonough & Co.
DR. H. H. WALE
Kentucky is a state which her children are always proud to claim as their birth-place. Her sons have formed a considerable proportion of the pioneer element of western life, and have been influential in molding the institutions and customs of several states. The first population of Kentucky was largely from Virginia. After the war of the revolution the resolute and hardy Virginians crossed the mountains, settled Kentucky, and the impress of their personal courage, manly honor and chivalrous bearing may still be traced in the Kentucky type of character.
The paternal ancestors of the subject of this sketch were Welshmen who emigrated to Virginia in the former part of the eighteenth century. His father was born in Culpepper county, Virginia, in the year 1769. Two of his uncles, George Wale and William Wale, fought in the war of the revolution. The latter was killed at the battle of Guilford Court-House, North Carolina. The former fought throughout the entire war, but before he could reach his home in Virginia, after the conclusion of the struggle, died from disease contracted during his long years of service in the American army. Martin Wale, Dr. Wale’s father, was married in Bedford county, Virginia, January 4, 1791, to Nancy Buford. She was the only daughter of Capt. Thomas Buford, an officer in the Virginia militia, who was killed at the famous and sanguinary battle with the Indians fought at Point Pleasant, on the Ohio, at the mouth of the Kanawha river, in the year 1774. The Buford family was of French Huguenot descent, and from South Carolina. Martin Wale emigrated to Kentucky in the year 1803. He settled in Breckenridge county, and was one of the early pioneers of that part of the state. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and fought under Harrison. He had eight children, of whom the youngest was H. H. Wale, born in Breckenridge county, Kentucky, May the 5th, 1813.
He was raised in Breckenridge county. The earlier settlers of that part of Kentucky were, in a large measure, emigrants from the agricultural districts of Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina. They had a wilderness to subdue without the many aids which now facilitate such undertakings. These necessities both demanded and developed the highest physical and mental energies. They, as a rule, were poor, and their fortunes came in the future growth of the country. Luxuries were unknown, and the art and dissimulations of traffic had neither been learned nor practiced. Candor, honesty and mutual confidence were the bonds of society. When in the progress of society, literary culture was superadded to these elements of manhood, a majesty of character was developed which marked and adorned the public men of Kentucky in her earlier history. Dr. Wale was brought up amid such surroundings. He obtained an English education in the ordinary subscription schools of the day, and for one session attended an academy at Cloverport, Kentucky, where to some extent he studied the classics.
He studied medicine at Cloverport, Kentucky, with Drs. Sebastian and Holmes, prominent physicians of that part of the country. July 2, 1840, he married Mary J. Woolfolk, a native of Meade county, Kentucky, born September 20, 1820. Her father was Joseph Woolfolk, and was from Louisa county, Virginia. Her maternal grandfather was Jacob Van Meter, who was born in Berkeley county, Virginia, in the year 1761, and when quite young removed with his father to Pennsylvania. In the fall of 1779, or the spring of 1780 Jacob Van Meter with his whole family descended the Ohio river to the Falls (now the city of Louisville), and in the autumn of 1780 made a settlement in Severn’s valley which now embraces Elizabethtown in Hardin county, Kentucky. He was one of the very first pioneers of that country, and settled there at a time when the Indians were numerous, and the few settlers were compelled to live in forts for protection against them. He was one of the founders of the Baptist church in that part of Kentucky of which for many long years he was a devoted member.
Dr. Wale first began the practice of medicine in Breckenridge county, Kentucky, in the year 1839. In 1851 he removed to Hardin county of the same state, and had a large and lucrative practice for several years. Besides practicing medicine there, he was partly occupied in farming, and carried on a store, the business of which, however, was managed almost entirely by a clerk.
He first visited Missouri in 1858. From Boonville he proceeded to Warrensburg, and thence journeyed to Jasper county, where he was highly pleased with the country, and believing it would develop into a rich agricultural region he purchased eight hundred acres of land in Dry Fork in Preston township. He returned to Kentucky, but after the war purchased a tract of land composed of 1,350 acres, of which his present farm forms a part. In the fall of 1870 he became a permanent resident of the county and has since been engaged in practicing medicine and in farming. He was unanimously elected president of the Jasper county Medical Society at its organization in 1872. He was succeeded by Dr. Wilson, of Carthage, in 1873, but was re-elected president of the society in 1874, and again in 1875. In 1876 he was succeeded by Dr. Brooks of Carthage. He was the contributor to the society of several papers on medical literature, whose reading generally elicited considerable discussion and commendations from other members of that body. He is now the proprietor of about one thousand acres of land, having sold some and given other tracts to his children. His children are seven in number. His oldest daughter, Nannie B., is the wife of H. C. Nall, of Joplin. David V. Wale, the oldest son, is a graduate of Louisville Medical University, and is practicing medicine at Webbville. Junius W. Wale is also living at Webbville and in business there. Sue married William Lewis; and Laura and Luella are living at home. The youngest daughter, Virgie, died on the 25th of June, 1853, nine years of age.
In the old days when the Whig and Democratic parties occupied the political field and their candidates attracted the attention of the country, Dr. Wale was a Whig. He took an active interest in affairs relating to the party organization, and while living in Kentucky was often elected a delegate to the Whig conventions. He cast his vote for Harrison in the famous “log-cabin and hard cider” campaign of 1840, when the Whig enthusiasm swept everything before it; and for Henry Clay, whose name was dear to every Kentucky Whig, when he made his spirited, but unsuccessful, contest against Polk four years later. Since the disruption of the Whig organization he has supported the principles and policy of the Democratic party. Both he and his wife have been members of the Baptist church for more than a quarter of a century.
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