Will Book __, Page 456
\nProven: May Term, 1862<\/p>\n
I, David Sensabaugh<\/b> of the County of Hawkins, State of Tennessee, hereby revoking and making void all other wills by me heretofore made.<\/p>\n
First. I direct that my funeral expenses and all my debts be paid out of any monies I may die possessed of or that may first come into the hands of my Executors.<\/p>\n
Secondly. I will and bequeath to my sons Christian Sensabaugh<\/b> and Richard Sensabaugh<\/b> equally all of my property of every kind and description, both real and personal that I may die possessed of — my land, my negro man Edward<\/b>, household and kitchen furniture, stock, grain, farming utensils and all effects belonging to me of every kind.<\/p>\n
But I require that the said Christian<\/b> and Richard<\/b> to do the following things.<\/p>\n
They must maintain, support, provide for and take care of my wife Nancy<\/b> during her life.<\/p>\n
I also require them to pay out to my son David Sensabaugh<\/b> $300.00; to my son Michael<\/b> $300.00; to my daughter Susan Amis<\/b> $300.00; to my daughter Nancy Sensabaugh<\/b> $150.00; to the children of Joseph Sensabaugh<\/b> $200.00 which shall be the share of each in my Estate.<\/p>\n
And to my daughter Elizabeth Bowman<\/b>, as her share, $200.00 to be held as a trust fund in the hands of my Executors hereinafter named, during her life to be loaned out by them and the interest to be paid to her annually, and at her death it is my will and desire that it shall go to her daughter Susan Jane Bowman.<\/b><\/p>\n
I have already paid to each of my sons, John Sensabaugh, Henry<\/b> and Jacob<\/b> all that I wish them to receive out of my Estate.<\/p>\n
Lastly. I hereby constitute and appoint my son Christian<\/b> and my son-in-law James Amis<\/b> Executors of this my last Will and Testament.<\/p>\n
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal. This 27th day of April, 1856.<\/p>\n
David<\/span> [X<\/span>] Sensabaugh<\/span> (seal) (his mark)<\/p>\n Signed by David Sensabaugh<\/b> the Testator in the presence of us who in his presence have subscribed our names as witnesses.<\/p>\n Hiram Fain 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 456 Proven: May Term, 1862 I, David Sensabaugh of the County of Hawkins, State of Tennessee, hereby revoking and making void all other wills by me heretofore made. First. I direct that my funeral expenses 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-1684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcribed-wills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684","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=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1685,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions\/1685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThomas P. Harlen<\/b><\/p>\n
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