ESTATE OF PRESLEY LUNSFORD

 

 

Introduction

 

W. Presley Lunsford was born April 9, 1899, Lauderdale County, and was the son of Joseph Wyatt Lunsford and Emma M. Byrn Lunsford. He was a double great-grandson of William Lunsford. 

 

In 1900, he was a pharmaceutical salesman and was living in a boarding house in Earle, Crittenden County, Arkansas.  He submitted membership to Earle Methodist Church in 1909. 

 

W. Presley Lunsford died of tuberculosis October 4, 1916, and was attended through his illness by his father, Joseph Wyatt Lunsford.  He was buried at New Hope Cemetery in

Lauderdale County, Tennessee. 

 

W. G. Lunsford, the signor of his estate, was William Green Lunsford, son of Aris Riley Lunsford, and first cousin of W. Presley Lunsford.

 

 

 

 

STATE OF TENNESSEE              }          

LAUDERDALE COUNTY          }         

 

I. C. S. CARNEY CLERK OF THE COUNTY COURT OF THE STATE AND COUNTY

AFORESAID HAVE THIS THE 10^TH DAY OF APRIL 1917 PROCEEDED TO TAKE AND STATE THE ACCOUNT OF J. W. LUNSFORD AND SETTLE WITH HIM AS ADMINISTRATOR OF PRESLEY LUNSFORD AND FIND THE RESULT AS FOLLOWS TO WIT;

 

TO AMOUNT RECEIVED FROM                                                                                                   $73.74

 

 

                                                                CREDITS

 

BY AMT PAID FOR QUALIFICATION                                                        $3.00

BY AMT PAID FOR FUNERAL EXPENSES                                             $68.74

BY AMT PAID CLERK THIS SETTLEMENT                                              $1.50

BY AMT ORDER CONF REC                                                                            $.50                                   

                                                                                                                                                                 $73.74

 

 

WHICH SETTLEMENT SHOWS THAT THERE IS NO FUNDS IN THE HANDS OF J W LUNSFORD AS HE HAS PAID OUT ALL OF THE FUNDS THAT CAME INTO HIS HANDS AS ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF PRESLEY LUNSFORD AS SAID J W LUNSFORD HAS WOUND UP ALL BUSINESS OF THE SAID PRESLEY LUNSFORD HE IS HEREBY RELEASED FROM SUCH ADMINISTRATOR

 

                                                                                               

SIGNED               W G LUNSFORD

 

 

APPROVED BY GEORGE W. YOUNG COUNTY JUDGE THIS APRIL 10^TH 1917

SWORN AND SUBSCRIBED TO BEFORE ME THE 10^TH DAY OF APRIL 1917

 

                                                                                                               

C S CARNEY      CLERK;

 

 

 

 

 

Source:  Court House, Ripley, Lauderdale County, Tennessee, Wills & Estates, page 194

Transcribed by Deborah Lunsford Yates

 

                                                                                               

 

 

 

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