Will Book __, Page 253
Proven: Aug. 2, 1847 <\/p>\n
In the Name of God, Amen, <\/p>\n
I Abraham Haun<\/b> being weak in body but of sound mind and memory do make this my last Will and Testament in manner and form as followeth, to wit: <\/p>\n
After all my just debts are paid and a decent burial, I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Elizabeth<\/b> all my lands during her life; also the choice of my horse beasts, also two choice cows and calves, and for the said Elizabeth Haun<\/b> my wife, to have as much of the other stock as she may stand in need of. <\/p>\n
I also want my wife to have one choice axe and one weeding hoe, also the loom and furniture to it. <\/p>\n
Also all my property not disposed of to be sold at public sale and my wife to have the money. <\/p>\n
I want it to be fairly and unequally understood that my son James Haun<\/b> but one dollar of my Estate. <\/p>\n
After my wife’s death. I want all of my Estate to be sold and an equal division made between the balance of my children. <\/p>\n
I nominate, constitute and appoint James Witt<\/b> my sole Executor. October 23, 1841. <\/p>\n
Abraham<\/b> [X<\/span>] Haun <\/b>(seal) (his mark)<\/p>\n William Courtney 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 253 Proven: Aug. 2, 1847 In the Name of God, Amen, I Abraham Haun being weak in body but of sound mind and memory do make this my last Will and Testament in manner and form …<\/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-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcribed-wills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413","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=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
James Courtney<\/b> <\/p>\n
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