Will Book __, Page 291<\/p>\n
I, Malinda Kenner<\/b> of Hawkins County, State of Tennessee, being of sound mind and memory, do make this my last Will & Testament…<\/p>\n
I direct that my body be decently buried by my Executors… that all my just debts should be paid by them out of my Estate.<\/p>\n
I give to my son James<\/b> two negro girls Sidney <\/b>and Laura<\/b> and their increase during his life for his support and maintenance.<\/p>\n
And whereas my son James <\/b>was born of weak mind so much so that he is not capable of taking care of himself or the property I leave to him for life for his support.<\/p>\n
It is my desire that my son Rodham <\/b>shall take James <\/b>and the property I leave to him for life and take care of him and treat him with tender kindness as long as James<\/b> may live, and at his death if Rodham<\/b> should do so, I then give and bequeath unto my son Rodham<\/b> the two negro girls Sidney & Laura<\/b> and their increase with what other property I may leave to James<\/b> for life<\/p>\n
Should Rodham<\/b> die before James,<\/b> I then revoke the bequeath made to Rodham<\/b> and request that my son-in-law George Savage<\/b> take James<\/b> and the property left to him during his life, and treat him with tender kindness suitable to his unhappy situation, then and in that case I give the property…unto my son-in-law George Savage<\/b> to him & his heirs for their trouble of taking care of James<\/b>.<\/p>\n
But should my son-in-law George Savage<\/b> die before James<\/b>, then and in that case, I revoke and disannul the bequeath to my son-in-law.<\/p>\n
But if James<\/b> and myself should die before Rodham<\/b>, it is then my will that Rodham<\/b> shall keep the two negroes, Sidney<\/b> and Laura<\/b> and their increase at their value put on by my Executors, and the money be equally divided between all my children…<\/p>\n
It is my will and desire that my old negro woman Rachael <\/b>should be set free, and as far as I have the power, I do hereby emancipate and set free my negro woman Rachael <\/b>and give to her one cow and calf and one year’s provision to be laid off by my Executors.<\/p>\n
And all the rest of my Estate I leave to James<\/b> for life for his support, and at his death my will is that it shall go as my will directs my two negro girls to go.<\/p>\n
I hereby appoint my two friends Edwin Hamblen<\/b> and Richard Mitchell<\/b> Executors…<\/p>\n
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 8th day of September, 1835.<\/p>\n
Malinda<\/b> [X<\/span>] Kenner<\/b> (seal) (her mark)<\/p>\n Signed, sealed published and declared by Malinda Kenner<\/b> as her last Will and Testament in presence of us:<\/p>\n Jas. Bradley 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 291 I, Malinda Kenner of Hawkins County, State of Tennessee, being of sound mind and memory, do make this my last Will & Testament… I direct that my body be decently buried by my Executors… that …<\/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-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcribed-wills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484","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=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1485,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nW. B. Mitchell<\/b><\/p>\n
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