Book A, Transcript Page: 116

I James Holmes do make and publish this my last will and Testement herby revoking and making void all other wills by me at any time made first I derect that my funeral enpenses and all my debts be paid as soon after my death as posable out of any money that I may died possessed of or may come into the hands of my Executor.

Second I bequeath to Mary Holmes my dearly beloved wife my ocupent claim with all the farming tools also my two mares and all my cattle and hogs & sheep House hold and Kitchen furniture crop on hand singalar the goods and chattles and all my bee hives and all and and at her death I if there should be anything left I bequeath it to my nephey James Holmes son of William Holmes and lastly I do hereby nomenate and appoint James Holmes my Executor in witness whare of I do to this my will set my hand and seal this 17th day of June in A.D. 1844.

James Holmes (Seal)

Signed sealed and published in our presents and we have subscribed our names here to in the present of the testator this 17th day of June 1844.

John L. Scott
Jesse Hardy

State of Tennessee)
Carroll County) September Term 1844

This day the last will and Testoment of James Holmes, Decd. was preduced into open Court and the Execution duly proven by the oaths of John L. Scott & Jesse Hardy the two subscribing witness there to and ordered to be recorded.

A Copy Test
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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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