{"id":2181,"date":"2015-01-25T06:26:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T12:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/?p=2181"},"modified":"2015-01-25T06:26:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T12:26:17","slug":"wills-and-probates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wills-and-probates\/","title":{"rendered":"Perry County Wills and Probates"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>from the research of Jan Monnin<\/h2>\n<p>Wills are a legal document that provides for a person&#8217;s possessions to transfer to whom he wishes after he dies.\u00a0\u00a0 If a person dies and has left a will, then an heir takes the will to the probate court and records it.\u00a0 Then the court will name an executor, whose job it is to usually inventory the estate and oversee the estate.\u00a0 After the debts of the estate are paid off, then what is left is divided up between the heirs, according to the will&#8217;s provisions.<\/p>\n<p>The Tennessee State Library and Archives website<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessee.gov\/tsla\/history\/howdoifind.htm#12\" target=\"_blank\">Tennessee State Library and Archives<\/a> has a state-wide list of extant wills from 1779-1861.\u00a0 You can e-mail them with a request to search for one person.\u00a0 More information about this is on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessee.gov\/tsla\/history\/howdoifind.htm#12\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>After 1861, wills and probates will be found at Perry County.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have a will or probate packet that you would like to share (where the person was born from 1930 or before), please contact <a href=\"mailto:jlb30504@gmail.com?Subject=Perry%20Co.%20TNGenWeb\"> Jan Monnin,<\/a> your Perry County TnGenWeb coordinator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the research of Jan Monnin Wills are a legal document that provides for a person&#8217;s possessions to transfer to whom he wishes after he dies.\u00a0\u00a0 If a person dies and has left a will, then an heir takes the will to the probate court&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-probate","category-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2182,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions\/2182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}