Transcribed by Sarah Midyett Hutcherson in November, 2000.  Note:  [sic] in the content below was inserted by the Haywood County TNGenWeb Coordinator when revising the text in January, 2026.

Source:  Haywood Co., TN. Court Minutes; Vol. L
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Page 211: Wednesday Morning 11th November 1874: John A. M. Batchelor & J. W. Batchelor executors of Ruth Batchelor, dec’d

A paper writing, purporting to be the Last Will and Testament of Ruth Batchelor, dec’d, was this day produced in Open Court

And the execution thereof was duly proven by the oaths of Thomas H. Norvell and J. H. Dickinson, subscribing witnesses thereto, and ordered to be recorded.

Thereupon, the said John A. M. Batchelor and J. W. Batchelor, the executors named in said Last Will and Testament-came into Open Court, and duly qualified agreebly to law, and entered into Bond in the sum of Five Hundred Dollars, with H. M. Clark and A. R. Stokley as their securities, who as well as the said John A. M. Batchelor and J. W. Batchelor, executors, as aforesaid, acknowledged said Bond in Open Court, which bond is approved and ordered to be recorded – Ordered that letters of Administration issue.