Will of John Scruggs, 1831:
Name of testator: John SCRUGGS
Date written: November 16, 1824
Probate date: July Term 1831
Recording date: July Term 1831
Testator’s residence: Anderson County, Tennessee
Executor: wife Emelia and son James Scruggs
Legatees: wife Emelia Scruggs; son Thomas; “my children” not named
Witnesses: J. Pipher, Cornelius Evans, Naswell D. Pipher
Proved by: Cornelius Evans, “Naswell Pipher & J. Pipher having removed out of the county”
Recording official: Jas. M. McCann, Deputy Clerk
Source: Anderson County Clerk’s Docket Book, January 1830-January 1842, pp. 46-7.
[Abstracted by Stephanie A. Hill from the microfilm in the Clinton Public Library with no corrections to spelling of names.]