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We Sopia Watkins & Elizabeth Douglass, of the State of Tennessee, the County of Sumner,
District No. 10, being sisters do hereby mutually agree that the farm, left to us by our brother
Bennett E. Douglass and all pertaining thereto household & kitchen furniture shall remain in
possession & undivided so long as either of us shall live & after death of each to be disposed of as
we may think proper. this the 10th d of October 187?.
(Signed) Bettie Douglass
Sophia Watkins
Test. C. G. Watkins
H. C. Dorris
State of Tennessee
Sumner County
The last Will and Testament of Sophia Watkins was presented in open Court on the 19th day of
May 1883, to be probated as the testament of Sophia Watkins, and thereupon B. D. Bell, and H.
C. Dorris, being duly sworn, deposed: that the Sophia Watkins whose name is signed thereto is
dead and the said Witness H. C. Dorris , whose name appears thereof? (at the book binding) as an
attesting witness further deposed that he attested? (at the binding) the same at the request of the
parties executing [pg 261] the same- to-wit. Bettie Douglass, and Sophia Watkins, and in their
presence - He also deposed as did witness B. D. Bell, that C. G. Watkins, whose name also
appears thereto as an attesting witness is dead but that his name is signed thereto and is in the
proper handwriting of said C. G. Watkins, and that the same was written by him. It was therefore
ordered and decreed by the Court, that said paper writing presented & proved as a foresaid be
recorded in the Will book as the last Will and Testament of said Sophia Watkins.
Copy Test O. H. Foster Clerk
NOTE: (The begining of this will. "Sopia" is the way it was spelled. The next several times it was spelled as Sophia which I believe is the correct spelling. J.P.)