Will of Mary M Aday
Mary M Aday, deceased, Last Will & Testament. In the name of God amen. I Mary M. Aday of the County of Madison, State of Alabama, being of sound mind and memory, but weak and inform of body on account of my advanced age and present sickness and being mindful of my mortality, do this 7th day of April in the year of our Lord 1830, make and publish this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following 
First- I desire to be decently and privately buried without any funeral pomp an with as little expense as may be. 

Secondly- I give and bequest all the estate of which I am possessed, being a Negro girl named Judeth and about 20 years of age, and her only child named George about 12 months of age, to my grandchildren, the children of Levy Aday, deceased, to wit: Nancy F. Winn, Mary M. Trotman, John F. Aday, Fanny Ann Davis, Jeptheah G. Aday and Francis M. Aday all the legitimate children of my son Levy Aday, deceased, upon the following conditions, restrictions and limitations, that is that the said Negro girl and child and her future increase shall be controlled and managed by my executor, either by hiring out or retaining her himself with her increase for the support and maintenance of the two youngest children, to wit: Jeptheah G. Aday and Francis M. Aday until they shall arrive at the age of 21 years at which time I desire said Negro girl and all her increase at that time be equally divided among the above mentioned children, if possible, by retaining her and her children among said children and if not I desire her and her children to be sold and the profits or proceeds of such to be equally divided among the afore said legatees and lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint my grandson, John F. Aday, executor of this my last Will  and Testament hereby revoking all other or former wills or testaments, by me heretofore made. In witness whereof I have set my hand and affixed my seal this day and year before written. 

Mary M. Aday (seal).x- her mark. executed June 3, 1831. 




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Walter Aday Family
Of Franklin Co. VA / Grainger Co. Tennessee


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Walter Aday married Mary Maxey 
proven by will of Walter Maxey (1791 Franklin Co. VA) 

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Note: Franklin Co was formed in 1785 from Bedford, Henry and Patrick Co, VA. 

1780 Earliest Official Record - Walter Eadyes listed in sale of Negro, Franklin (Bedford?) Co., VA 

1782 - 1782 Tax list of Bedford Co. VA 

1783 - Josiah Aday married Martha Fergusson, Bedford Co., (Now Franklin Co.) VA 
Likely son of Walter Aday 

1786 - Walter Aday bought land in Franklin Co. VA 

1788 - Walter Aday and wife Mary sold same land Franklin Co. 

1805 - Walter Aday & Lloyd Aday on Tax list of Grainger Co. TN 

1807 - Walter Aday died Grainger Co. TN 

1830 - Mary Maxey Aday died Madison Co. AL 
Known children of Walter Aday and Mary Maxey Aday 
order of birth and year of births unknow 

1. Sally Aday married Herny Lovin Franklin Co. VA 1790 to Sumner Co. TN 

2. Cloe Aday daughter possibly never married - died 1832 Madison Co. AL - unmarried? 

3. Frankey Aday daughter 

4. Mary Aday daughter married ? Smith 

5. Levi Aday youngest son married Miney Ferguson 1805 Grainger
Co. TN born before 1785 (1810 census) 

6. Fanny Aday daughter married John Troutman 1807 Grainger Co. TN 

7. Jemima Aday married Michael Pitts Nov 8, 1831
- Living with John F Aday 1850 Madison Co. AL census, age 60
Other possible children: 

Josiah Aday, Franklin Co. Tax list 1786 married Martha Fergusson, Bedford Co., (Now Franklin Co.) VA 
Lloyd Eddy, married to Margaret Beddler 15 Jan 1798, Jefferson Co., TN 
William Aday, land adj. to land purchased by Walter Aday, Sullivan Co. NC (TN) 1789 
Francis Eadey, baptised 1797, Grainger Co., TN - Richland Baptist Church 
Horatio Aday, Madsion Co. AL census 1810 
Robert (per M. J. Aday, Researcher) 