State of Tennessee Hardeman County,
County Court February Term 1878
On motion and it appearing to the court that JOHN R CRAWFORD late of Hardeman County, TN., is dead and hath left no will: and it further appearing that said deceased left no will: and it further appearing to that said deceased left no widow, but the following children: WILLIAM CRAWFORD, WILEY CRAWFORD, EMMA CRAWFORD, MILLAND CRAWFORD, JOHN CRAWFORD, all minors save William Crawford and that the two last named are under age 15 years of age, and all without regular Guardian.
It is ordered that ROBERT N MITCHELL, D.S. WEBB & LEVI LOCKMAN three suitable and disinterested persons be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, to lay off and set apart for the use of and benefit of the said minor heirs under 15 years of age, the personal property exempt to them by law, and also a years provisions out of said deceased estate, and make report to the next term of this court.
W.E. Donion Clerk
To the matter to the order of sale of property allotted as exempt and for the support to the minor heirs of John R. Crawford deceased. In this cause the court for good & sufficient reason therewith moving the court is pleased to order the property heretofore ordered to be made at the residence of GEORGE CRAWFORD instead of Crainville.
One years support for the children of JOHN R. CRAWFORD deceased March Term 1878
We the undersigned shareholders after being duly commissioned have proceeded to sit apart to the minor children of John R. Crawford deceased under 15 years of age, the property exempt to them by law, as follows: 2 mules, 2 cows, 1 calf, 10 head of hogs, 1 wagon & harness, 2 beds, bedsteads and necessary clothing for each, 500 bins of fodder, 1 stack of hay, 300 lbs. Bacon, 9 bushels of wheat, 1 table, 1 set cooking utensils, 1 wash kettle, 1 sieve, scythe, 1 cradle, 2 wash tubs, 1 chopping axe, 1 grubbing hoe, 1 bureau, 2 plows, 12 plates & set knives, 1 set spoons, 2 weeding hoes, 8 chairs, 1 mans saddle
Also a years support out of the remainder of the personal estate as follows: 1 cow, 2 hogs, 500 bins fodder, 8 bins peas, 9 bins oats, ½ bushel millet seed, 1 haw, 1 fire shovel, 2 meal sacks, 1 grindstone, 1 chopping axe, 1 small sewing machine, 2 metallic well buckets, 2 shovel stocks & plows, 1 trunk, 1 side harrow.
Signed R.N. Mitchell, D.S. Webb & L.L. Lockman
Recorded in Minutes Book Number 16 page 187
Submitted by Charlotte Holloway & Sharon Dickey, October 20, 2002
