Book A, Transcript Page: 169

State of Tennessee)
Carroll County( August 21st 1851 in the name of God Amen.

I Dudley Phipps being in good mind & contious that it appointed for all men to die do make this my last will and testament.
1. it is my desire that my Just debts and funeral expenses all be paid out of any money that may come into the hands of my trusty Friend wo I shall hereafter appoint my Executor 2d I desire that my son James have the tract of land I now live on Containing one hundred Acres after the death of my wife Mary whi is to have a support off of said land & a home on said land during her natural life. 3rd I desire that my wife Mary have my Gray mare & one milch cow & all the funature about the house during her natural life after the death of my wife Mary I desire that my Daughter Catharine have the said mare Cow & all the property about the house. 4th It is my desire that my two sons Jonathan and Ambrose have fifty cents Each also it is my desire that Jane Cleaver have fifty cents also I desire that my two Grand children the children of my Daughter Nancy have fifty cents to 5th And lastly I hereby constitute & appoint Benjamin Hays Executor to this my last Will & Testament. 6th Further I desire that the children of my Daughter Elizabeth have fifty cents and the children of my Daughter martha have fifty cents also the children of my son William have fifty cents Signed in the presents of) the day & date above written.

Dudley Phipps
X his mark

Test
A. Barksdale
Benjamine Hays, Jr.
L. M. Stafford Jr.

State of Tennessee)
Carroll County( October Term 1851

This day a paper writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Dudley Phipps Decd. was produced in open court and duly prooven by the oaths of A. Barksdale Benjamine Hays & L. M. Stafford the Subscribing witnesses there to as the law directs and ordered to be recorded.

A Copy Test
Y. W. Allen Clk
By I. C. Whitehorn D. C.

This text was transcribed by Jere Cox from the typescript entitled Tennessee Records of Carroll County Will Book “A” September, 1822 – 1864 (approximately) created in 1937 under the Works Progress Administration.

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