Will Book ___, Page 176
Proven: March Term, 1859<\/p>\n
I, William Eidson, Sr.<\/span> do make and publish this my last Will & Testament, hereby revoking & making void all other wills by me at any time made.<\/p>\n 1st. I direct that my funeral expenses and all my debts be paid as soon after my death as possible out of any money I may die possessed of or may first into the hands of my Executor.<\/p>\n 2nd. I will, give and bequeath to my youngest son Larkin W. Eidson<\/span>, all my land containing 375 acres, lying in Hawkins County, Tenn., Dist. #3, adjoining the lands of Swinefield Eidson<\/span>, Isaac Bloomer<\/span> & others, to have said land after my death and my wife’s after which he must pay to Creton Eidson<\/span>, my oldest son, $265.00 and each of my children now living the like sum, to wit: Willson Eidson<\/span>, Wm. Eidson<\/span>, Samuel Eidson<\/span>, Elizabeth Frost<\/span>, Martha Hunter<\/span>;<\/p>\n likewise my will is\u2026he pay to my grand children, to wit: Swinefield Eidson<\/span>, John Eidson<\/span> & William Klepper<\/span>, $50.00 each.<\/p>\n The above money to be paid to the above named heirs at the expiration of three years after my death and my wife Martha Eidson<\/span>‘s.<\/p>\n My will is that Larkin W. Eidson<\/span> has the hole control of all my lands after my death and that he take care of and provide for his mother during her lifetime.<\/p>\n 3rd. It is my will and desire that all my personal property be sold after my death except one choice cow, one sow and pigs and all the household and kitchen furniture which I will to my wife Martha Eidson<\/span>.<\/p>\n 4th. I will and bequeath to my son Creton Eidson<\/span>, $100.00 after my death out of the proceeds of my personal estate.<\/p>\n 5th. I will and it is my [desire] that after my debts is all paid out of my property that the balance of the proceeds of my personal Estate go to my son Larkin W. Eidson<\/span> if anything left.<\/p>\n Lastly. I nominate & appoint my Larkin W. Eidson<\/span> my Executor to this my last Will & Testament.<\/p>\n In witness whereof I do to this my will set my hand and seal This the twenty fourth day of January, Eighteen Hundred & fifty nine.<\/p>\n William<\/span> [X<\/span>] Eidson<\/span> (seal) (his mark)<\/p>\n Signed, sealed & published in our presence, and we have subscribed our names hereto in presence of the Testator This January 24th, 1859.<\/p>\n C. A. Manis<\/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 176 Proven: March Term, 1859 I, William Eidson, Sr. do make and publish this my last Will & Testament, hereby revoking & making void all other wills by me at any time made. 1st. I direct …<\/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-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcribed-wills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825","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=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1826,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions\/1826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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