Will Book ___, Page 424<\/p>\n
In the name of God, Amen.<\/p>\n
I Ellen Rogers<\/span> of the County of Hawkins and town of Rogersville, being in feeble health but of sound mind & memory do make and publish this my last Will & Testament.<\/p>\n First. I give and bequeath to Eliza Cocke<\/span>, wife of Frederick Cocke<\/span> the tract of land willed to me by my father James Forgey<\/span> lying on the south side of Holston River above Surgoinesville to her, her heirs and assigns forever.<\/p>\n Second. I give and bequeath to my daughter Matilda Rogers<\/span> my negro girl Elsey<\/span> which was willed to me by my father James Forgey<\/span>, to her, her heirs and assigns forever.<\/p>\n Lastly. I constitute and appoint Frederick Cocke<\/span> Executor to this, my last Will & Testament.<\/p>\n In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal The 17th day of August, 1837.<\/p>\n Ellen Rogers<\/span> (seal)<\/p>\n Signed, sealed published and declared in the presence of:<\/p>\n John Cocke 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 424 In the name of God, Amen. I Ellen Rogers of the County of Hawkins and town of Rogersville, being in feeble health but of sound mind & memory do make and publish this my last …<\/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-1877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcribed-wills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877","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=1877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1878,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions\/1878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
G. McCraw<\/b><\/p>\n
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