Warren Co., TN | November 6, 1865 |
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Warren County Roll #84 Probate Records (County or Chancery Court) Inventories and Settlements Vol: 4-6 Feb 1863 � Sep 1880 County Court Clerk's Office Wills and Inventories Vol 4 Feb 1863 � Sept 1870 Page 249 Will of Lucy Forrest : Dec'd I Lucy Forrest of the County of Warren & State of Tennessee do publish & make the following as my last will and testament hereby revoking all other wills heretofore made by me. 1st I give and bequeath to my daughter Nancy Earles Fourteen Hundred dollars, the interest of which is to be used by her during her life at her death the principal or the said sum of Fourteen Hundred dollars is to be equally divided among her children surviving her and the children of any one of her said children who may die before her death. In other words I want her children if they should all be living at her death to take equal share of said money, but in case any of her said children should die before her death leaving issue shall take the interest of said dec'd child or children the same as it or she would have done if living at the death of said Nancy Earles; I also appoint John L. Spurlock trustee for the management of said fund for said Nancy Earles during her life & at her death to be accounted for to the beneficiaries above named; in case of said Spurlocks removal from the County or any contingency that presents him from discharging the trust, I want him to place said fund in the hands of some trustworthy person who is to manage the same as the said Spurlock is hereinabove directed. Item Second: I give and bequeath to my daughter Martha Drake one Hundred Dollars in addition to the real estate I have given to her & her children, said real Estate was designed to be conveyed by deed to her for life & at her death to go to her children & at their death to her grandchildren. My object is to transmit it to my great grand children giving each preceding parent the benefit of the same during life. I also give and bequeath to my said daughter Martha Drake a Negro boy named John about ten years of age, whom she now has in her possession & is to keep & use during her life for her exclusive use & benefit during her life free from the control or dominion of her husband in any respect whatever & at her death to be sold & the proceeds to be equally divided among her children in being & the issue of such as may be dead in case the death of any of them should occur previous to her death. Item 3: I want all of the property I may have on hand sold and my debts collected and of the proceeds I want said Martha Drakes children th have twelve hundred dollars if there be that amount remaining after the payment of the legacies herein above specified, but as I have given John McGee five Hundred dollars & Joseph McGee owes me ninety dollars for a still & James McGee seventy dollars for a horse, I want the balance of said Martha Drakes children made equal with them in proportion to the respective amounts they have received before they get any of said Twelve Hundred dollars, or any part of my estate. Item 4: In the division of the Fourteen Hundred dollars hereinbefore bequeathed to the said Nancy Earles, I want William Earles charged with Five hundred dollars I have already given him, and Richmond Earles with Four Hundred dollars which I have likewise given him, & the rest of said Nancy's children I want made equal with them before they receive any portion of said Fourteen hundred dollars, or any part of my estate. Item 5: after the foregoing bequests are satisfied if there be any thing remaining I want it equally divided among the children of my two daughters, the children of each daughter to represent their respective parents upon the principal herein before laid down among said sits if children respectively. Item 6: I hereby appoint John L. Spurlock & James Spurlock the Executors of this my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal Witness: Martin McGee } Lucy Forrest { SEAL } Samuel H. Evans } James M. Evans } State of Tennessee } Nov Term 1865 Warren County } this day this will } was presented in open court and offered fro probate whereupon it was duly proven by the oaths of James M and Saml H. Evans attesting witnesses, and ordered to be recorded; Witness my hand at office this 6 Nov 1865 Sam Hendersen Clk By J. H. Robison D Clerk