Source: Sumner County Tennessee, Will Book Vol. 5
April 4th 1893
I Elias Armstrong being of sound mind and memory do make and publish this my last Will and Testament, hereby revoking all other wills by me made.
Item 1st. It is my will that after my death that my wife Josa Armstrong shall collect any debts due me and pay my burial expenses and my other debts that I may justly owe.
Item 2nd. It is my will and desire that all the property of which I may be possessed at my death or that may come to my estate after death shall go to my wife Josa Armstrong (except as provided in the Item 1st. of this Will) for her use and benefit during her life, and that she shall have the profits arising there from and enjoy the same as her own property during her natural life.
Item 3rd. It is my will and desire that after the death of my wife and giving my executor (hereinafter to be named) sufficient time to collect up enough money for the purpose, a monument shall be placed over the remains of myself and my wife, which shall be of sandstone, if it can be had and if not, it shall be of other good material not to cost over three hundred dollars and a good strong iron fence shall be placed around our graves. Our remains are to be buried in Sumner County due east of my brother - in - law, H. N. Breuer on a lot or parcel of land bounded as follows; Beginning on a stake in the center of the Louisville and Nashville Pike and running due east 9 poles to a stake, thence due north 9 poles to another stake, thence west 9 poles to the center of said L. & N. Pike, thence south with said Pike 9 poles to the beginning and containing one half acre, more or less said lot to be reserved and set apart as a family burying ground for the use of my children and their descendants and for no one else.
Item 4. It is my will that after the death of my wife, all my property both personal and real shall be sold by my executor (hereafter to be named ) and that the proceeds shall be divided equally among my three children, T. B. Armstrong, Mary E. Rouse, and W. C. Armstrong or their lawful Heirs.
Item 5. I hereby appoint my son W. C. Armstrong executor of this my last will and testament, and
require that he shall be well paid for his services in winding up my estate.
April 4th 1893.
(signed) Elias Armstrong
Test.
F. W. West
J. C. Wright
State of Tennessee
Sumner County Court October Term October 29th 1894
A paper writing purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Elias Armstrong dec'd was this
day produced in open Court for probate and duly proven by the oaths of T. W. West and J. C.
Wright the subscribing witnesses thereto, when the same was admitted to probate and ordered
recorded as said last Will and Testament of Elias Armstrong dec'd.
A true copy.
Attest. (signed) Harris Brown Clerk