Will of Green H. Mason - Dated 1 Apr 1884

I GREEN H. MASON of the County of Crockett & State of Tennessee being sound of body and mind do make, publish and declare this my last will and testament.

First: I direct that all my debts be paid...

Second: I direct that no account of advancement by me to any of my children shall be taken or made, as I have heretofore given about equally to each of them but I now hold some notes and accounts against my children and may hold some other claims against them when I die, and I direct that the sums so due me, whether notes or accounts I may hold against my children then be out of date or barred or not by the statutes of limitations, shall be deducted from the share of each that may owe me respectively at my death, that is to say, neither of them is to be charged on settlement of my estate with what I have given him or her but is to pay back out of his or her share what I have loaned or sold them before my death & this whether the note or account is barred by the statutes of limitation or not.

Third: I direct that my Executors hereinafter named shall as soon as they can after my death sell all my property real and personal & mixed of which I die seized and possessed, (except the property herein willed to my wife) at public, or private sale... and they shall after payment of debts and legacy to my wife divide the proceeds of such sale together with all other property to wit: money &c;, belonging to my estate equally among my children or their decendants, (excepting the heirs of my son R. W. MASON Dec'd whose wife MARTHA MASON refuses in a certain business transaction to sign her name and thereby giving or making a Quit claim deed to a piece of land that her dec'd husband R. W. MASON in his life time had deeded MRS. POLLY HERRON, in Case the said MARTHA MASSON, dose not sign the above mentioned quit claim deed her & the heirs of R. W. MASON are to be entirely disinherited or not to be known in the division of my property, though if the said MARTHA MASON dose assign the above mentioned deed in question then the heirs of R. W. MASON shall equally share of my estate so fare as the interest of there Dec'd father is concerned in my estate...

Fourth: I direct that my Executors shall understand the second and third items of this will, when notes and accounts against my children are refered to in either of said items, to mean notes & accounts held by me at death against the husband of either of my daughters whether she be living or dead as well as notes and accounts against my sons whether living or dead.

Fifth: I direct that if my present wife survives me that my Executors give to her out of my Estate a horse & buggy and set of harness worth altogether, not less than one hundred and fifty dollars cash and that they pay her funeral and bural expenses when she dies; and that they buy and put at her grave tombstones such as are put at the grave of her former husband, NIMROD JOHNSON.

Sixth I hereby revoke and cancel all former wills made by me and nominate & appoint W. H. MASON my son & JOHN M. HANNAH my son in law Executors to this my last will and testament.

In witness whereof I hereunto sign my name & affix my seal, on this the 1st day of April 1884.

GREEN H. MASON (Seal)

Witnesses:
J. A. COX
L. E. HUMPHREYS