Source: Sumner County Tennessee, Oct. 1870 - April 1891, Will Book Vol. 4
page 166
To whom it may concern Know ye that I Cyrus Boyd, being of sound mind and reasonable memory, do make and ordain this my last Will and testament, hereby revoking all other heretofore made by me.
1st., After the payment of my funeral expenses and my just debts, I desire that my daughter Mary A. Frazier, have all my property of every description both my lands and personal property.
Secondly, I do hereby nominate and appoint my daughter Mary A.'s husband, William (pg 186) J. Frazier my executor without bond.
In witness whereof I have hereto signed my name, this the 23rd. day of April 1877.
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Cyrus X Boyd
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We the undersigned hereby certify that we saw the above named Cyrus Boyd sign his name, and that he
acknowledged to us and in our presence that it was his last Will and testament. James Montgomery
S. W. Paschal
State of Tennessee
Sumner County Court April Term 1879.
The last will and testament of Cyrus Boyd was this day produced in open Court for probate, when upon
came into Court, S. W. Paschal one of the subscribing witnesses to said will who being first duly sworn,
proved the due execution of said will in common form and it having been proven by said Paschal that
James Montgomery the other subscribing witness was dead. He like wise proved that he was well
acquainted with the hand writing of the said James Montgomery. That he had often seen him write, and that
he verily believed the signature as a subscribing witness to said Will was in the genuine hand writing of the
said James Montgomery, it is therefore ordered by the Court that said Will be admitted to record. And the
said William J. Frazier, executor named in the Will appeared in open Court & accepted the execution of the
same no bond being required of the Executor by the Will, he was duly qualified.
Copy Attest. O. H. Foster Clerk