Will Book __, Page 391
\nProven: June Term, 1860<\/p>\n
I Mary Nothern<\/b> of the County of Hawkins and State of Tennessee, make and publish this as my last Will & Testament revoking all others heretofore by me made.<\/p>\n
First. My Executors are to pay my burial expenses and all my just debts out of my Estate.<\/p>\n
Second. I give and bequeath to my son John Nelson Ballard<\/b> the sorrel mare called Nelly, one white cow and calf, one sow and three pigs, one bed and furniture, bedstead &c, one wash kettle and three sheep.<\/p>\n
Third. I give to my daughter Edna Elizabeth Hambrick<\/b> the black cow, one sow and six pigs, five shoats, one bed and furniture, stead &c, all the household furniture consisting of one loom, one wheel, on pair cards, one wash pot , cooking utensils, cupboard, ward, clothing &c, and one sheep.<\/p>\n
I request what money I have on hand and also the proceeds of the sale of one sorrel mare to be applied to the payment of the balance due on the land I purchased of Adam T. Hileman<\/b> as soon as the good and sufficient title is made by said Hileman<\/b>.<\/p>\n
I request that the land remain unsold until my daughter becomes 21 years of age, then to be divided equally between my son Jno. Nelson Ballard<\/b> and my daughter Edna Elizabeth Hambrick<\/b>.<\/p>\n
I further appoint Daniel J. Read<\/b> my Executor to this my last will and testament. Signed the 11th day of May, 1859.<\/p>\n
Mary<\/span> [X<\/span>] Nothern<\/span> (seal) (her mark)<\/p>\n Witnesses:<\/p>\n J. L. Etter 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 391 Proven: June Term, 1860 I Mary Nothern of the County of Hawkins and State of Tennessee, make and publish this as my last Will & Testament revoking all others heretofore by me made. First. My …<\/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-1675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcribed-wills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675","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=1675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1677,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions\/1677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nA. H. Etter<\/b><\/p>\n
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