Source: Sumner County Tennessee, Will Book Vol. 5, page 95
page 95
Gallatin Tenn. July 4 1887.
Considering the uncertainties of life & the casualties of travel on the southern trip which I am expecting to start upon tomorrow, I hereby give & bequeath all my property of every description to my beloved wife Livonia Burney in fee simple & absolutely to have & hold as her own & to dispose of as she wills.
The same being what we have mutually made and saved.
My books & papers will show what the property consists of & where it may be found.
A. M. Burney
Signed in the presence of,
E. O. Buchanan
A. J. Swaney
W. H. Brown
State of Tennessee
Sumner County Court April Term April 29th 1895.
A paper writing purporting to be the last Will and testament of A. M. Burney dec'd was this
day produced in open Court for probate and duly proven by the oaths of E. O. Buchanan and A. J.
Swaney, two of the subscribing witnesses thereto, and the death of W. H. Brown the other
witness thereto being suggested to the Court, the said A. J. Swaney and E. O. Buchanan being
duly sworn say they are well acquainted with the hand writing of W. H. Brown, and that his
signature as witness aforesaid is genuine, when said paper writing was ordered filed and recorded
as said last Will and Testament of A. M. Burney deceased.
A true Copy attest
Harris Brown Clerk