{"id":1167,"date":"2014-02-05T12:15:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T17:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2014-02-05T12:15:30","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T17:15:30","slug":"partition-of-william-kleppers-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/partition-of-william-kleppers-estate\/","title":{"rendered":"Partition of William Klepper’s Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hawkins County records include a document from the probate file entitled In re Estate of William Klepper<\/em>.\u00a0 The document reads as follows:<\/p>\n

“This agreement witnesseth;<\/p>\n

“We the undersigned heirs at law of William Klepper<\/strong> deceased, who was a citizen of Hawkins County, Tennessee, do hereby agree that W. F. Phipps<\/strong> county surveyor of Hawkins County togather with J. G. Lawson<\/strong>, John M. Klepper<\/strong>, and W. N. Johnson<\/strong>, citizens and freeholders of Hawkins County, Tenn. shall go upon the lands of the said William Klepper<\/strong> dec’d and make partition of same among the six children heirs at law of said William Klepper<\/strong>, dec’d and his widow Nancy J. Klepper<\/strong> who agrees to take a child’s share.<\/p>\n

[…goes on to commission the four men to divide the land and give a report to the clerk of the county court who would give a decree and issue title to the heirs. The land is described as 336 acres in the 17th District, and gives the adjoining landowners’ names.]<\/p>\n

“Given under our hands and seals this 22nd day of August A.D. 1894.”<\/p>\n

Attest to marks: T. J. Parrott<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nancy<\/strong> X<\/em> Klepper<\/strong> (her mark)
\n[widow of William Klepper<\/strong>]<\/p>\n

Arthur Shanks<\/strong><\/p>\n

Benjamin<\/strong> X<\/em> Klepper<\/strong> (his mark)
\n[husband of Mary Ann<\/strong>]<\/p>\n

Mary Ann<\/strong> X<\/em> Klepper<\/strong> (her mark)
\n[wife of Benjamin<\/strong>]<\/p>\n

Isaac R Courtney<\/strong>
\n[husband of Martha Jane Klepper<\/strong>]<\/p>\n

Martha J. Courtney<\/strong>
\n[n\u00e9e Klepper<\/strong>]<\/p>\n

Perry Klepper<\/strong>
\n[son]<\/p>\n

P. T. Klepper<\/strong>
\n[Peter Thomas Klepper<\/strong> – son]<\/p>\n

Mary Klepper<\/strong>
\n[? could this have been the widow of William S.<\/strong>, who died in 1883]<\/p>\n

Gaines Klepper<\/strong>
\n[son]<\/p>\n

Sarah J. Klepper<\/strong>
\n[n\u00e9e Delp<\/strong> – wife of Gaines<\/strong>]<\/p>\n

Sarah C.<\/strong> X<\/em> Sizemore<\/strong> (her mark)
\n[married to E. D. Sizemore<\/strong>]<\/p>\n

“Personally appeared before me, T. J. Parrott<\/strong>, clerk of the County court in and for the State & county aforesaid, Nancy Klepper<\/strong>, Benjamin Klepper<\/strong> & wife Mary Ann Klepper<\/strong>, Isaac R. Courtney<\/strong> & wife Martha Klepper<\/strong>, Perry Klepper<\/strong>, P.T. Klepper<\/strong>, and Sarah C. Sizemore<\/strong>, the bargainers with whom I am personally acquainted and who acknowledged the execution of the within instrument for the purposes therein contained. And Mary Ann Klepper<\/strong>, Martha J. Courtney<\/strong> and Sarah C. Sizemore<\/strong>, wives of the said Benjamin Klepper<\/strong>, Isaac R. Courtney<\/strong>, and E. D. Sizemore<\/strong> having appeared before me personally and privately and apart from their said husbands, the said Mary Ann Klepper<\/strong>, Martha J. Courtney<\/strong> and Sarah C. Sizemore<\/strong> acknowledged the execution of the within instrument to have been done by them freely, voluntarily, and understandingly, without compulsion of constraint from their husbands and for the purposes therein contained.<\/p>\n

“Witness my hand at office in Rogersville, Tennessee. This 22nd day of August A.D. 1894.
\nT. J. Parrott<\/strong>, Clerk of Court”<\/p>\n

Filed: January Term, Saturday, Jan 19, 1895<\/p>\n

\n

Submitted by Lowell Klepper.\u00a0 Annotations in brackets are his.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hawkins County records include a document from the probate file entitled In re Estate of William Klepper.\u00a0 The document reads as follows: “This agreement witnesseth; “We the undersigned heirs at law of William Klepper deceased, who was a citizen of …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wills-estates-guardianships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1169,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions\/1169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}