Source: Sumner County, Roll #91, Book: 5 Feb. 1891 - July 1904, Page 55-56, Record Type = Probate
I, A.B.C. DICKENSON, of the county of Sumner and State of Tennessee being in usual health and of sound mind, do make this my last Will and Testament as follows:
First. It is my will and desire that after my death my burial and funeral expenses be paid.
Second. That all of my just debts be paid from the sale of my personal property or other effects that may fall into the hands of my executor.
Third. That my wife SUSAN L. DICKENSON hold the title to my real estate as long as she lives if she desires to do so.
Fourth. That after her death it be divided between my three children NANCY B. WHITESIDE, EPHRAIM P. DICKENSON, and LEONORA A. BOENSCH as follows: To Nancy B. Whiteside sixty-four acres running from a point in the public road, North parallel with the old Goodall lane between me and SCOTT to GIBSONS South boundary line. To Leonora A. Boensch fifty acres commencing at a point in the Head line on my West boundary line so as to run East through the middle of the Barn to strike the West boundary line provided it will make the fifty acres, if it makes more or less than the fifty acres, take off or put on from the little branch East of the barn enough to make the number of acres from the tract North of it. And to Ephraim P. Dickenson the remaining sixty-six acres more or less North of Leonora's lot bounded West by Head and North by Jones Gibson and East by Gibson and Lot No. 1 as above mentioned N. B. Whitesides lot.
Fifth. That Ephraim P. Dickenson act as my executor, this the 1st day of March 1890.
(signed) A.B.C. Dickenson
State of Tennessee
Sumner County Court March Term March 6th 1893.
A paper purporting to be the last will and testament of A. B. C. Dickenson was this day produced in open Court by Ephraim P. Dickenson named as executor therein, and offered for probate as the last will and testament of said A. B. C. Dickenson, deceased: when it being made to appear satisfactorily to the Court that A. B. C. Dickenson is dead and died in Sumner County and that said paper writing was found among the valuable papers of the said A. B. C. Dickenson after his death : and it was proven by WM. HALL, DAVID CHENAULT and DAVID F. BARRY, three credible witnesses who testified that they were well acquainted with his hand writing, that the hand writing of said A. B. C. Dickenson is generally known among his acquaintances, and that they, and each of them verily believe the writing in said paper propounded as the last will and testament of the said A. B. C. Dickenson, and every part thereof to be the hand writing of the said A. B. C. Dickenson : and said paper writing having been proven to the satisfaction of the Court in the manner and form required by law in such cases to be the last Will and Testament of the said A.B.C. Dickenson deceased. It is therefore ordered recorded.
A true copy attest..
HARRIS BROWN
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