Daniel Bills Will (undated)
Marshall County Will Book A, page not stated in transcription by Paulette Carpenter or Beane Porch (published book); preceding and subsequent Wills probated 1838-1840
I will to my beloved wife Polly the farm on which I now live together with all the farming untentials also the stock of all kids. I will that my surplus produce or Stock that she may not wish to keep to be sold at her decretion and the proceeds to her use. The farm where Isaac Gardner now lives is rented to him for three years for two hundred and forty dollars. I will that money to my son Alfred T. Bills afterwards to be rented out and the proceeds to belong to my wife Polly for the purppose of equalizing my heirs. The farm where David Calvert now lives is only rented to him for one year the rent is to belong to my wife Polly afterwards my son in law Green Wilson is to have it for five years for one hundred dollars to keep up the fences and repare the houses the money to left in his hands as a part of his Share afterwards to be rented s the farm where Isaac Gardner lives. My widowed daughter in law Katherine Bills and her four children I will to them ten dollars to be equally divided I will to my three youngest children Franklin, Ashbury, and Polly each twenty dollars more than an equal Share for the purpose of schooling them. Daniel Bills his mark (Seal)
Witness John Wilson B. F. Houston James Houston