Will Book __, Page 381
\nProven: April 2, 1860<\/p>\n
I Gabriel McCraw<\/b> of the County of Hawkins and State of Tennessee, being of sound and disposing mind do make and publish this my last Will & Testament, hereby revoking and making void all former wills by me at any time made.<\/p>\n
And as to such worldly Estate as it hath pleased God to intrust me with, I dispose of the same as follows:<\/p>\n
First. I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Susanna McCraw<\/b> during her natural life all the property both real and personal including all notes and accounts in my favor against all persons whosoever.<\/p>\n
Second. I give and bequeath unto my grand daughter Evaline M. Godby<\/b>, formerly Evaline M. Forgey<\/b> who intermarried with Crockett Godby<\/b> at the death of my wife my negro girl Ellen<\/b> and all the children the negro girl may have living at the death of my wife.<\/p>\n
Third. I direct that the residue of my property both real and personal shall be sold at the death of my wife at public auction on a credit of 12 months and the proceeds of such sale divided equally between my three daughters Minerva Etter<\/b>, Susan Mayes<\/b> and Adaline E. Senter<\/b>, the rest of my children being already provided for.<\/p>\n
And lastly, I do hereby make, ordain and appoint Samuel McCraw<\/b> and William K. Mayes<\/b> Executors of this my last Will and Testament, which office it is my desire they shall hold without security.<\/p>\n
In witness whereof I, Gabriel McGraw<\/b>, the Testator, have to this my last Will & Testament written on one sheet of paper only, set my hand and seal this 21st Just, 1858.<\/p>\n
Gabriel<\/b> [X<\/span>] McCraw<\/b> (seal) (his mark)<\/p>\n Signed, sealed and published in presence of us who have subscribed our names in the presence of the Testator and of each other:<\/p>\n John S. Cocke 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 381 Proven: April 2, 1860 I Gabriel McCraw of the County of Hawkins and State of Tennessee, being of sound and disposing mind do make and publish this my last Will & Testament, hereby revoking and …<\/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-1643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcribed-wills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643","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=1643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1644,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions\/1644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWm. Gro-<\/b> [as transcribed<\/em>]
\nSamuel<\/b> [X<\/span>] S. W. Webb<\/b> (his mark)<\/p>\n
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