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Will of James Burnham Marshall Co. Recorded January 11, 1908

Marshall County Will Book 2, Page 18

Will - T.K.Burnham  3 Oct.1855
"I. T.K.Burnham, a citizen of Briensburg, Kentucky, being low in body and sound in mind, do hereby make this my last will and testimony, I do hereby appoint my wife, Mary Burnham and M.F. Burnham, my Executors.
I want all my just debts paid out of my estate and the remainder of my estate to belong to my wife.
I hereby impower her to sell any portion of my lands, deeds, and property, as though I were present.
We the undersigned witness do hereby certify that this is his last will and testimony.
Witnesses: A.E.Rudolph
                 B.F.Cason                     T.K.Burnham

State of Kentucky
Marshall County        Sct
I,  J.C. Gilbert, Clerk of the aforesaid County, do certify that at a County Court, constituded and held at the Court house in Benton within and for said County Tuesday the 4th, 1855,
This last will of  T.K. Burnham was produced in open Court and proven to be such, by the oaths of, A.E. Rudolph and B.F. Carson the subscribing witness. Thereto, whereupon said writting and approved -----  and ordered to be recorded as the last true will of said decedent, in testimony of which and that said will and the certificate have been and now hereby recorded in my office.
I hereby set my hand the 10th day of December, 1855
                                                        J.C. Gilbert,  Clerk


Will Book B, Page 132
Inventory of the Estate of Frederick Burnham, deceased
Personal property includes :
One brindle heifer,  calf, sorrel mare and colt,  last lot of hogs,  2nd lot 14 shoats,  3rd lot one sow and five pigs, 21 barrels of corn,  lot of wheat 14 bushels,  2 carry plows,  4 hoes,  3 axes,  3 singletrees,  2 clevises and iron wedge,  2 pair geers, crosscut saw,  sithe and cradle,  kettle,  lot of coopers ware,  shot gun and pouch,  eight day metal clock,  lot iron tools,  bed, sted,  and furniture, 10 bottles,  stone jar,  pair of fire irons, 18 geese,  saddle,  handsaw,  frow,  account on George Heitt, account on James Merrel.

Inventory contains all the property that has come into my handsthis 15th day of December 1837
                                                          T. K. Burnham, Administrator

Source : Teresa Burnham Harris


Sale of the Estate of Frederick Burnham, deceased
Buyers were :
Gabriel Washburn,  James Brien,  Andrew Kinkead,  Henry Brown,  John Fitzgerald,  T.K.Burnham,  Joseph Bowlin,  E.N. Poe,  J.T. Pace,  George W. Fitzgerald,  Elizabeth Burnham,  Edward Rineld,  Sherry Tisdel,  Lovit Gainer, Isaac Floyd, John Jones,  Phillip Henson,  Jesse Henson,  Baeze Ford,  William Gray

Source : Teresa Burnham Harris

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