Will Book ___, Page 175
Proven: 1855<\/p>\n
I Thomas Ellison<\/span> do make and publish this as my last Will and Testament, hereby revoking and making void all other wills by me at any time made.<\/p>\n First. I direct that my funeral expenses and all my debts be paid as soon after my death as possible out of any money that I may die possessed of or I will that my wife Elizabeth Ellison<\/span> sell property off the farm to pay off the same.<\/p>\n Secondly. I will and bequeath to my wife Elizabeth Ellison<\/span> all my land during her natural life time and all my property of every description so long as she may live.<\/p>\n Then after her death, I will and bequeath that my wife Elizabeth Ellison<\/span>‘s two grand children, Thomas Ellison<\/span> and Frances Ellison<\/span>, shall have all my land and possessions equally divided between them so as to divide the house that each one can have a room and all the property of every description, except what is otherwise disposed of.<\/p>\n Thirdly. I will and bequeath that my son Edmond Ellison<\/span> shall have ten dollars at the death of my wife Elizabeth Ellison<\/span>.<\/p>\n In witness whereof I do to this my will set my hand and seal. This 29th day of March, 1852.<\/p>\n Thomas<\/span> [X<\/span>] Ellison<\/span> (seal) (his mark)<\/p>\n Signed, sealed and published in our presence, And we have subscribed our names hereto in the Presence of the Testator. This 29th day of March, 1852.<\/p>\n Attest:<\/p>\n Urial Homs<\/span> [Homes<\/span> ?] This Hawkins County Will was transcribed by one of the following volunteers: Audrae Mathis; Gary Fletcher; Betty Mize; Diana Arney; Karen Negron, Kathey Welder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Will Book ___, Page 175 Proven: 1855 I Thomas Ellison do make and publish this as my last Will and Testament, hereby revoking and making void all other wills by me at any time made. First. I direct that 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-1821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcribed-wills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821","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=1821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1822,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions\/1822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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John H.<\/span> [X<\/span>] Arnold<\/span> (his mark)<\/p>\n
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