Book A, Transcript Page: 393<\/p>\n
State of Tennessee )
\nCarroll County (<\/p>\n
I James A. Gooch being of sound mind do make this my last will and Testament provoking all other will made at any other time by me.<\/p>\n
1st I Bequeath my body to the Dust from whence it came and my Soul to god who gave it.<\/p>\n
2nd. I want all my Debts payed my Burial and funeral Expences paid first out of any money that may be in the hands of my Executors.<\/p>\n
3rd I bequeath to my Beloved Mother Eliza J. Pinson all of my Estate real and personal including the Legacy coming to me from North Carolina from my grand Mother Gooch<\/p>\n
4th I want my Executors hearafter appointed to take all of property in to his hands and Sell all of my personal property to the best advantage on a credit of twelve months and to collect all moneys coming to me by Note and Account and from the Confederate State of America for Services as a Soldier and pay over to my said Mother as she needs it not Extravagintly but as he thinks her and her family needs it in a reasonable way and that he have reasonable pay for his servises<\/p>\n
5th I appoint my trusty friend Isaac Pinson my Executor of this my last will and Testament<\/p>\n
This the 4th day of October 1861<\/p>\n
J. A. Gooch (Seal)<\/p>\n
Signed and sealed in our presence on the 4th day of October 1861<\/p>\n
W. L. Pinson
\nIsaac Pinson<\/p>\n
Probated November Term 1861.<\/p>\n
This text was transcribed by Jere Cox from the typescript entitled Tennessee Records of Carroll County Will Book “A” September, 1822 – 1864 (approximately)<\/em> created in 1937 under the Works Progress Administration.<\/p>\n Corresponding Resource: FamilySearch has a microfilm copy of the WPA transcript of Will Book A available to view on-line (click here<\/a>). A free FamilySearch login is required to view microfilm.<\/strong><\/p>\n Jere Cox was an early Carroll County TNGenWeb coordinator. We do not intend to violate Jere’s copyright interests by including the transcription here, but we want to make sure his efforts remain available for future researchers.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Book A, Transcript Page: 393 State of Tennessee ) Carroll County ( I James A. Gooch being of sound mind do make this my last will and Testament provoking all other will made at any other time by me. 1st …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[235,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-records","category-wills-probate-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1862,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions\/1862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}