Book A, Transcript Page: 164

I Nimrod Kelly do make and publish this as my last will and testament hereby making void all other wills by me at any time made. first I direct that my funeral expenses and all my debts be paid as soon after my death as possible out of any moneys that I may die possessed of or may first come into the hands of my executrix. Secondly I give and bequeath to my daughter single woman Narcissa Kelly my land on which I now live lying in the State of Tennessee and in the County of Carroll & on Reedy Creek on the new Jackson Road it being land settled by Old John Butler & bounded S. Wm. Anderson & E. Josiah Anderson W. George Montgomery & Barton Hicks & W. by Elizabeth Hicks it being all the land I now possess and thirdly that the balance of my effects be distributed share and share alike as the law may direct. Lastly I do hereby nominate and appoint Margaret Kelly my wife my Executrix in witness whereof I do this will set my hand and seal this 25th day of April 1850.

Nimrod Kelly (Seal)
his mark

Signed sealed and published in our presents and we have Subscribed our names hereto in the presents of the testator this 25th day of April 1850.

Danl Mc Leod
Wesley H. Allmon

State of Tennessee)
Carroll County) October Term 1850

This day a paper writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Nimrod Kelly was produced in open court & duly proven by the oaths of Daniel Mc Leod & Wesley H. Allmon the subscribing witnesses thereto and ordered to be Recorded.

A Copy Test
Y. W. Allen Clerk
By J. 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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