Book A, Transcript Page: 267

W. Harman Mc Gee and David Evans do state that the noncupative will of Sowell Barham was made by him on the twenty seventh day of June in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and fifty six in our presents to which we ware spcially requested to bear witness by the testator himself in the presence of each other that it was made in his last sickness in his own dwelling house and the same is as follows to wit
It is his will and desire that his effects should be disposed of after his decease in the following manner
1st That all his just debts should be paid
2nd Secondly that his son John Barham should have the black mule and three hundred dollars in money
3rd Thirdly that his beloved wife Jane Barham should have the balance of his effects during her natural life and after the death of my beloved wife Jane Barham it is my will that all my effects left by my said wife Jane Barham that the same be equally divided between all my children made out by us and signed this the 8th day of July 1856.

Harmon Mc Gee
David Evans

State of Tennessee )
Carroll County ( August Term 1856

At this term of said court was produced in open court the above will of Sowel Barham Decd & was duly proven by the Testimony of Herman Mc Gee & David Evans & ordered to be duly recorded.

W. H. Graves.

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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