Name of testator:\u00a0 John SCRUGGS\u00a0<\/p>\n
Date written:\u00a0 November 16, 1824<\/p>\n
Probate date:\u00a0 July Term 1831<\/p>\n
Recording date:\u00a0 July Term 1831<\/p>\n
Testator\u2019s residence:\u00a0 Anderson County, Tennessee<\/p>\n
Executor:\u00a0 wife Emelia and son James Scruggs<\/p>\n
Legatees:\u00a0 wife Emelia Scruggs; son Thomas; \u201cmy children\u201d not named<\/p>\n
Witnesses:\u00a0 J. Pipher, Cornelius Evans, Naswell D. Pipher<\/p>\n
Proved by: Cornelius Evans, \u201cNaswell Pipher & J. Pipher having removed out of the county\u201d<\/p>\n
Recording official:\u00a0 Jas. M. McCann, Deputy Clerk<\/p>\n
Source:\u00a0 Anderson County Clerk\u2019s Docket Book, January 1830-January 1842, pp. 46-7.\u00a0<\/p>\n
[Abstracted by Stephanie A. Hill from the microfilm in the Clinton Public Library with no corrections to spelling of names.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Will of John Scruggs, 1831: Name of testator:\u00a0 John SCRUGGS\u00a0 Date written:\u00a0 November 16, 1824 Probate date:\u00a0 July Term 1831 Recording date:\u00a0 July Term 1831 Testator\u2019s residence:\u00a0 Anderson County, Tennessee Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5244,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions\/5244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}