Book 2, Pages 170-172
Proven: April 2, 1877

Bond and Writing Purporting to be the Last Will of William Setser, Deceased

We the undersigned, severally and respectively have bond ourselves to each other in the sum of two hundred dollars.

Now, the conditions of the above obligation is such that whereas William Setser who previous to his death resided in the county of Hawkins, State of Tennessee, Civil District No. One, and who before his death had his will written by which he disposed of his property real and personal as follows to wit:

I William Setser make and publish this my last will and testament, hereby making void all other wills by me at anytime made.

First — I will that my debts and funeral expenses be paid out of my personal property or out of the proceeds of the same so soon after my death as convenient.

Secondly — I will to my wife, Mary Isabell Setser all she has made and bought since I married her and one young cow and one dark bay colt and the note executed to me by George Carroll for and in consideration of a lot of land adjoining the land of said Carroll and being the same that fell to her of his father’s farm,

and I also will my above named wife twenty five dollars per year to be paid out of the proceeds of my present farm during her life or widowhood.

Thirdly — I will to my daughter Eliza Orella Lane and her heirs my farm on which I now live being about sixty-eight acres more or less.

Fourthly — I will to my grandson William Reden Taylor, two hundred dollars in money to be made by sale of my aforesaid property

and hereby will and direct that in the event I should decease before the coming winter that Joseph Lane my son in law sell the two mules I now own for the purpose of raising the two hundred dollars herein willed to my grandson William Redon Taylor,

and in the event the two mules cannot be sold for this sum of two hundred dollars I direct that some of my other personal property be sold sufficient to make up the two hundred dollars, and further the above named sum be loaned out, taking note with approved security, the note to be renewed annually till the said William Redon Taylor shall arrive at the age of Twenty one years of age.

This, the 13th day of May 1876.

William [X] Setser (his mark) Seal

Now we the undersigned desirous to carryout the forgoing will of said William Setser, Deceased and being the heirs and beneficiaries, in the above will have and do hereby bond ourselves according to the foregoing obligation to stand to and abide the will of said William Setzer and every part thereof, for the purposes of which we have bonded ourselves in the above bond, but the above bond to be null and void if we abide by the said will as above set forth by William Setser, otherwise to remain in force and effect.

This the 2nd day of September 1877

M. I. Setser — Seal
J. H. Lane — Seal
R. Y. Taylor — Seal for William R. Taylor

Attest:

G. W. Brooks
John W. Harris

State of Tennessee — Hawkins County: Personally appeared before me,
J. R. Armstrong, Clerk of the County Court of said County, George W. Brooks and John W. Harris, subscribing witnesses to the foregoing instrument, who being by me duly sworn deposed and that they are acqua8nted with the parties to said instrument and they respectively acknowledge the same in their presence to me be theirs and did upon the day it has been dated. Witness by hand at Office in Rogersville this 2nd day of April A.D. 1877 J. R. Armstrong, Clerk

Transcribed by Betty Mize