Book A, Transcript Page: 328

Know all men by these presents that I Isaac Williams of the County of Carroll and State of Tennessee now porly as to health but in sound mind make this my last will and Testament.
1st. I will my soul unto God and my body to the tomb.
2nd. I want all my just debts paid out of my Estate and then I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Catharine all of the house hold and kitchen furniture together with all my the tools horses cattle and hogs and so forth that is on the farm together with the farm or profits of said farm & houses during her natural life or widowhood and or untill my daughter Mary Elizabeth becomes of lawful age or should marry then I give and bequeath unto her an equal right to one half of the farm or profits thereof during my wife Catharine’s lifetime or widowhood then at the death or marriage of my wife Catharine to any other man my request is that my beloved Daughter Mary Elizabeth is have all the above named property and the above named farm or tract of Land which consists one hundred and nineteen Acres of land and Dwelling houses and all the impertinances thereto belonging which I now live on to have and to hold forever to her and her heirs.
I have already given to my three Eldest sons Joseph A. and Paschal and Nathan their proportional part of my Estate and give and bequeath unto my daughter Eliza J. who is married one R. D. Woods a certain piece or parcel of Land lying and being in the county of Carroll and State of Tennessee in the 18th Civil District beginning at an Elm in William Taylors line then thence east with Calvin Butler line to Indian Creek thence down said Creek to the mouth of Bushy Branch thence up said branch to the beginning Supposed to be forty five Acres more or less to have and to hold during natural life then to go to and be equally divided between of her children as her equal part of my Estate together with what I have already given her then I give and bequeath unto my son Birrel I. a certain piece or parcel of land lying and being in the County of Carroll State of Tennessee & in the 18th Civil District on the east side of Indian Creek beginning at the mouth of a Little branch thence up said branch 3 poles to a Maple thence nearly South to a white oak in Wm. Butlers line thence east with said Butlers line to the Road thence with the road northward to James Bobetts line thence westward with his line to a black oak with pointers then north 52 poles to a blk oak with prs on Thomas Butlers line thence west 105 poles to a Maple with pointers standing on the east bank of Indian Creek thence south with the meanderings of said creek to the beginning supposed to be fifty five Acres to be the same more or less to have and to hold forever to him & his heirs & representatives to make his equal share together with what I have already given him. And I hereby nominate and appoint my son Joseph A. Williams my sole Executer to carry out this my will and testament hereby making all other wills void by me formerly made this the 9th day of July 1858.

Isaac Williams (Seal)

Signed and acknowledged in presence of
B. H. Nesbitt John A. Montgomery

State of Tennessee )
Carroll County ( September Term Carroll County Court 1858.

At the above term of the County Court of said county was duly proven in open court the said will of Isaac Williams Decd. and ordered to be duly recorded of which the foregoing is a Copy Test.

W. H. Graves Clerk

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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