Will     Last Will and Testament of Mary J. Simms

         I Mary Jane Sims of Charles County in the State
         of Mary do make and publish my last will and
         testament in manner following that is to say:
         After the payments of all my first debts and
         funeral expenses including a neat monument
         to my memory to be erected over my grave at
         the discretion of my executors hereinafter
         named. I give desire and bequeath my estate as
         follows:
Item 1st I give and bequeath to Amia Amanda Gardiner
         of Baltimore City, in the State of Maryland,
         daughter of the late Geo S. Gardiner the sum
         of Eigh hundred dollars $800 00/100
Item 2   I give, and bequeath to Mary A. Gardner, daughter
         of the said George S. Gardner the sum of three hun
         dred dollars ($30000)
Item 3   I give and bequeath to Fanny T. Gardner, widow
         of the late Thomas L. Gardner, Mary Louisa Gardner
         George J. Gardner, and Joseph H. Gardiner, each
         the sum of fifty dollars ($5000)
Item 4   I give bequeath and release, to and unto Joseph E.
         Simms Gardiner, the note which I now hold
         against him for the sum of One thousand dollars
         ($100000) and all interest accrued thereon upon
         Condition nevertheless that he shall pay to his daug
         hter Mary Myrtle Gardiner, and Stella Gertrude
         Gardiner upon their reaching the age of Eighteen
         Years respectively the sum of two hundred and
         fifty dollars (25000) each.
Item 5   I give and devise to my nephew Constantine
         Gardiner of Alachua County in the State of Florida
         during the term of his natural life and no longer
         with remainder over to the said Surviving and
         lawfully begotten child or children of him the said
         Constantine Gardiner. Share and share alike: all
         that lot tract piece or parcel of land, and premises
         Situated lying and being said Alachua County in the
         State of Florida and being the same land by me from
         a certain Mattie J. Gaskins and E.H. Gaskins her hus
         band, containing forty acres more or less, and descri
         bed as follows: North East Quarter of North East
         Quarter, Section nine township ten South Range
         twenty