This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: JerryStout99 Surnames: PATTERSON, CARRIGER, HYDER, SIMS Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.tennessee.counties.carter/1143.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Perhaps the below will will help. The CARRIGER & HYDER nephew & nieces listed in this will were children of Daniel S. CARRIGER and wife Margaret PATTERSON, sister of Samuel B. PATTERSON. The following will I transcribed from microfilm and some words were illegible. Carter Co. TN Will Book 2 Pages 47-48. Monday March Term 1872 Then was the Last Will and Testament of Samuel B. PATTERSON was exhibited & Read in Open Court and proven by R. A. Smith & H. M. Folsom the subscribing witnesses thereto, which is in words and figures as follows. I Samuel B. PATTERSON of the County of Carter and State of Tennessee being of Sound mind and memory but realizing the uncertainty of this life, do make publish & declare this to be my last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills made by me. First. In humble acknowledgment of my belief in God I give my Soul to him to be desposed of according to his good pleasure & request that my body be decently buried in a Christian like manner by my family. Second. It is my will that the expenses of my burial with the just debts that I may owe at the time of my death be paid by my Executors herein after to be named. Debts from any of money _____ or other chases in action I may have at that time. If the funds arising from these sources should not be sufficient to pay my said Funeral expense & debts I desire that my Executors sell personal property I may own at the time of my death to raise & sufficient funds for that purpose. Third. After the payment of Debts I will give and bequeath to my wife Catharine Patterson all the remainder of my personal property of every kind and description excepting the special bequests, to my wife herein after made to him absolutely to and dispose of as she may see proper. Fourth. I will give and devise & bequeath to my nephew Nicholas CARRIGER all my Carpenter tools of every kind & description. Fifth. I will give bequeath & devise to my beloved wife Catharine PATTERSON the following tract of Land to wit: the home tract upon which I now live in Carter County, Tenn., containing Seventy five acres more or less, the tract adjoining this tract purchased of by me of R. R. Butler, also containing Seventy five acres more or less & the tract purchased by me of Peter W. Emmet adjoining the home tract above named &c containing Thirty Seven acres more or less to hold possess and enjoy, each of said three tracts of Land for & during the time of her natural life. Sixth. At the death of my wife Catharine, I will give and divise to my nephew Nicholas CARRIGER the said three tracts of Land above described to my said wife Catherine for life, to be his absolutely at her death, but upon the express condition that he the sd. Nicholas does not either before or after my death intermarry with one Sarah J. SIMS widow of Hiram, Decd. & formerly Sarah Jane KITE whom I reguard as a woman of bad character & might be his wife. If the said Nicholas should at any time violate this condition by an intermarrying with said Sarah Jane SIMS then this devise to him is to be void and I will give and devise the said three tracts of Land at the termination of the life estate herein of my wife Catharine to the children of my niece Martha Hyder wife of Joseph HYDER & the children of my niece Eliza Jane HYDER wife of James E. HYDER in equal. M____ that is the children of said Martha HYDER to take one half thereof & the children of said Eliza Jane HYDER to tak! e the other half. Seventh. I will give bequeath & devise to my said nephew Nicholas Carriger my tract of Land in Carter Tennessee purchased by me from Albert J. Tipton containing Sixty three acres more or less. Also the tract of Land in said county purchased by me from James D. Smith adjoining the tract above named and containing Nineteen acres more or less. But the devise of these two tracts to said Nicholas is upon the same expresses conditions that he does not intermarry with the said Sarah Jane SIMS & if he should at any time violate said condition by intermarrying with her then this devise to him is to become unoperetive and void and I will give & devise the said two tracts of Land herein described to the children of Martha HYDER and Eliza Jane HYDER in the same maner & upon the same time as apply to the other conditions I bequests to them contained in the Sixth clause of this my Last Will. Eighth. I have heretofore paid out for the benefit of my Brother-in-Law Hyley Saul about the sum of Thirty dollars & have advanced to his wife my sister Nancy Saul about the sum of Twenty dollars. It is my will and devise that my Executors do not hold them to any account for said sum & that they have nothing further or more of my Estate. Ninth. It is my earnest wish and desire that my nephew Nicholas Carriger shall continue to make his home with my wife Catharine as has heretofore done and that William Roberts bound to me until twenty one years of age by Order of the county court of Carter county, remain in the family until the consideration of his time of service that he be sent to school at such times as he can be and that when he arrives at the proper age he be learned the trade of a house carpenter and fitted to tak of himself when he reaches the age of Twenty one years. Tenth. I hereby nominate constitute & appoint Elijah Simmerly & Allen T. Carriger, both of Carter County, Tenn. Executors of this my Last Will & Testament. In Witness whereof I have here unto subscribed my name on this day of November A.D. 1871 in the presence of the following persons who at my request and in my presence have subscribed there names hereto as witnesses. S. B. Patterson Witnesses R. A. Smith H. H. Folsom Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.