Source: Sumner County Tennessee, Oct. 1870 - April 1891, Will Book Vol. 4
page 236
State of Tennessee
Sumner County
Know all men by these present, That I, Jack May Martin, at present residing in said County and State, being
in feeble health and having full confidence in my brother-in-law, C. B. Tate, do hereby, according to the
laws of Tennessee constitute and appoint him by this deed, as guardian of my children, and I do not desire
that he shall be required to give any bond and security as such. My life is insured in the Equitable Life
Assurance Society of the United States in Policy No. 49951 for the sum of twenty five hundred dollars. The
proceeds of said policy were to have been paid to my wife, if living at my death but she has departed this
life, and I now desire and authorise(sic) the same to be paid to said guardian as above constitute and
appointed. And I do hereby fully authorize and empower said guardian to receive and receipt for and have
the care and control of all property that my said children may be entitled to in the State of Tennessee,
Texas, or elsewhere. And the said C. B. Tate as said guardian shall also have the custody and tention? of
my said children.
The said C. B. Tate, at present resides in the County of Sumner, State of Tenn., but I desire it distinctly understood that all the power and authority confered(sic) upon him to act as guardian of my children as he continues to reside in said County or State, or remove elsewhere.
In testimony whereof I, Jack May Martin have hereunto set my hand on this the 20th. day of February 1882.
(signed) Jack May Martin
Witnesses.
B. F. Ferrell
Lea Martin
State of Tennessee
Sumner County Court March Term 1882
The last Will and (pg 237) Testament of Jack May Martin was this day produced in open Court for probate
and was duly proven by the oaths of B. F. Ferrell and Lea Martin, subscribing witnesses thereto, which is
received by the Court and ordered to be recorded. C. B. Tate, the guardian named in the will appeared in
open Court and accepted the trust therein named, no security being required he entered into, and
acknowledged his bond without security to the State of Tennessee as required by law and was duly
qualified as testamentary guardian of Frank, May, and Jack May Martin, minor heirs of Jack M. Martin,
deceased aforesaid without any security.
Copy Test. O. H. Foster Clerk