Will Book __, Page 220<\/p>\n
*** Nuncupative Will ***<\/p>\n
Be it remembered that on the sixth day of January in the year 1837, we, Thomas Eidson, William Rogers <\/b>and Jack Sensabaugh<\/b>, citizens of Hawkins County, State of Tennessee, being near neighbors of the late Jacob B. Groves,<\/b> and in being in the house of the said Jacob B<\/b>. on the night after said 6th of January and a short time before the said Jacob B<\/b>. died, and whilst the undersigned Thomas Eidson<\/b> was behind the said Jacob B<\/b>. on the bed supporting the said Jacob B<\/b>., and the undersigned William Rogers <\/b>and Jacob Sensabaugh<\/b> were standing by the bedside on the same Jacob B.<\/span> … he said,<\/p>\n “Tommy, Tommy,<\/b> I was to make a right to Howe<\/b>‘s children for the land of Jacob<\/b> Howe<\/span> but have never made the right. I aimed to make a deed yesterday when I went to town, but I did not go”<\/p>\n He continued, “John<\/b> and Winstead<\/b>‘s wife have no share in it for I have paid them for their shares — and I want the land divided among the balance of the children…”<\/p>\n And then he observed, “Men take notice…”<\/p>\n Just at that time Mrs. Fanny Groves<\/b>, the mother of said Jacob B.<\/b> approached the Bed, and the said Jacob B<\/b>. continued, “Mother, don’t grieve after me, for you have a plenty here to last you your days, and what is mine is all yours.” The old lady seemed much affected.<\/p>\n Shortly after, his sister Mrs. Charles <\/b>came, and she observed, “You are very sick, Brother”, to which he replied, “I am, my days are nearly numbered”.<\/p>\n And in about one hour after, expired, without saying any thing more as to his property.<\/p>\n The undersigned Jacob Sensabaugh<\/b> states that he did not pay particular attention to what Mr. Jacob B. Groves<\/b> said in relation to Howe<\/b>‘s land, but distinctly recollects hearing his state that he did not want the balance of Howe<\/b>‘s children wronged out of their land.<\/p>\n He also distinctly recollects and paid particular attention to what Mr. Groves<\/b> said to his mother, that “What was his was all hers”.<\/p>\n The undersigned further state that the said Jacob B<\/b>. was of sound disposing mind and memory at the said time.<\/p>\n In witness thereof we have hereunto set our hands this 13th day of January, 1837.<\/p>\n Jacob Sensabaugh Witnesses:<\/p>\n D. Alexander This Hawkins County Will was transcribed by one of the following volunteers:\u00a0 Audrae Mathis; Gary Fletcher; Betty Mize; Diana Arney; Karen Negron, Kathey Welder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Will Book __, Page 220 *** Nuncupative Will *** Be it remembered that on the sixth day of January in the year 1837, we, Thomas Eidson, William Rogers and Jack Sensabaugh, citizens of Hawkins County, State of Tennessee, being near …<\/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":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcribed-wills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354","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=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1356,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions\/1356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThomas<\/b> [X<\/span>] Eidson<\/b> (his mark)
\nWilliam<\/b> [X<\/span>] Rogers<\/b> (his mark)<\/p>\n
\nW. T. Senter<\/b><\/p>\n
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