Source: Sumner County Tennessee, Will Book Vol. 4, pages 339-340
In the name of God Amen. I, Sally Belote being of sound and disposing mind and memory do make and publish this as my last Will and Testament, hereby revoking and making void any and all wills by me heretofore at any time made.
It is my will and desire that after my death, my house and lot, the same that was willed to me by my husband Robert Belote, situated in the State of Tennessee County of Sumner, Dist. No. near the corporation of Gallatin being the lot my husband bought of Samuel Fisher and known as part of Lot No. 1 and bounded on the East by the town creek, on the South by Mack Robb, on the West by the land dividing my said lot from the lot formerly owned by John Gourley?, and on the North by the lot of Richard Stalker, be the property of my sister, Priscilla Winchester, and I hereby give and bequeath the said house and lot to her, the said Priscilla Winchester for and during her natural life and after her death to be the property of her daughter Queen? Winchester. ( Note, the writing of the name looks like Jueen. The 1880 census has it as Green. per; J.P.)
Witness my hand this the 27th. day of December 1882. (signed) Sally Belote
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We the undersigned witnesses were requested by the testatrix, Sally Belote to witness her Execution and signature to the within and foregoing Will, and we did so on the day it bears date, signing our names in her presence and sight and in the sight and presence of one another.
J. A. Trousdale
B. F. Allen
A. R. Wynne.
March 24th. 1884:
Having been requested by Sallie Belote to witness this her last Will and testament after having read it to her she appeared to be in perfect sound mind and said that was her mark to the above will made on the 27th. day of December 1882.
Witness, Wm.(William) Dodd
State of Tennessee
Sumner County Court February Term 1886
The last Will and Testament of Sally Belote, dec'd, was this day produced in open Court for probate and was duly proven by the oaths of J. A. Trousdale and B. F. Allen, subscribing witnesses thereto, which is received by the Court and ordered to be recorded.
Copy Test. (signed) O. H. Foster Clerk