Book 2, Pages 4-5

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In the Name of God Amen.

I Martha Haygood of the County of Hawkins, State of Tennessee do make & Hereby constitute this as my last will & testament and I am at the time of sound mind & have my reasoning powers good but of feeble body and ________.

1st. I do hereby request that after my decease my remains be neatly buried and my personal expenses to be paid out of my _____ and

2nd. I do make my husband Stephen Haygood my sole heir to all of my property personal and real, especially the tract of land I inherited of my Father, N. S. Larkins deceased, and do further give my __ husband full power and right to sell and dispose of the said tract of land as his own the title is here vested fully to him to do what he may think best.

Made this 27th day of July 1864.

Martha [X] Haygood (her mark)

Witness:

Robert H. [X] Owens
John [X] Pressley
Thomas J. Amis

Transcribed by Betty Mize