>X-Originating-IP: [67.18.230.132] >To: [email protected] >From: [email protected] >Reply-To: [email protected] >Subject: [Forum:] Will of Richard Brown >Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 12:15:51 -0500 (CDT) >X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at usgennet.net > >The following new message has been posted on Forum at ><http://www.tngenweb.org/rutherford/webbbs/wills/index.cgi>. > >*************************************************************************** > > MESSAGE: (#105) Will of Richard Brown > ><http://www.tngenweb.org/rutherford/webbbs/wills/index.cgi?rev=105> > AUTHOR: Diane Ricks > DATE: Wednesday, 13 October 2004, at 12:15 p.m. > > Richard Brown Dec'd Will > >I, Richard Brown of Rutherford County and State of Tennessee, make this my >Last Will. I give , devise and bequeath my estate and property, real and >personal, as follows, that is to say: I want all my debts paid now due, and >any burial expenses also. > >I give to my wife Jane G. Brown one horse, she to choose it, also one cow, >she >to choose it, also my entire stock of hogs, also all of my household and >kitchen furiture, also all the farming utinsels. > >I also devise to my wife Jane G. Brown all my real estate, consisting of a >certain tract of land lying in District No. 22 Rutherford County and State of >Tennessee containing eighty seven acres more or less. My said wife Jane G. >Brown is to have the personal property to use as she thinks best, that is she >to have the right to sell it at any time, but the real estate she is to have >only as long as she lives a widow, and at her death or marriage to revert >back >to my children for an equal distribution (viz) Mary E. Mabry, William Richard >Brown, (heir of my son Robert A. Brown dec'd), Joseph T. Brown and Nancy >Moore. > >I also appoint my son son Joseph T. Brown as my executor of this Will, and to >be guardian for my grandson William Richard Brown (heir of my son Robert A. >Brown dec'd ) It is my will that my executor Joseph T. Brown shall hold >William Richard Brown's portion of my estate in his hands until he ( William >Richard Brown) becomes of age there to pay it over to him. But, if he should >die before he becomes of age then his portion is to revert back to my >surviving children for an equal distribution. > >In witness whereof, I have signed and sealed, and published and declared this >instrument as my Will. This May the 14th 1881. > >Richard Brown seal > >The said Richard Brown on said 14 th day of May 1881 signed and sealed this >instrument, and published and declared this source as for his Last Will. And >we at his request, and in his presence, and in the presence of each other, >have hereunto written our names as subscribing witnesses. > >John S. Thompson > >Jos. R. Thompson > >W.M. Freeman > >State of Tennessee : > >Rutherford County : > >County Court August term 1881 > >The forgoing papers writing suporting to be the Last Will and Testament of >Richard Brown dec'd was this day presented in open Court for probate and the >executor there of was duly proven by the oaths and examination of John S. >Thompson and Jos. R. Thompson two of the subscribing witnesses there unto and >was ordered to be recorded and filed. > >Witness my hand at office at Murfreesboro this 1 day of August 1881. > >W.D. Robison clerk Recorded Sept 12, 1881 > >Record Book 28 pages 97 and 98 > >Richard Brown Dec'd > >The forgoing ia a correct Sale List of the property belonging to the >estate of >Richard Brown dec'd and sold by me on the 17 th day of Sept. 1881. > >J. W. Watson 1 cow $12.20 D. Banker ? 1 horse 70.20 Henry Fathers? 1colt >29.70 >Hugh Kegg 1 cow $9.00 less 6 percent8.00 Cash on hand 60.00 > >----- > >$ 180.20 > >I certify that the forgoing is a true and correct Sale List of the property >sold by me belonging to the estate of Richard Brown dec'd. > >J. R. Fathers ? Sworn to & subscribed before me this 17 th Oct. 1881 > >W.D.Robison > >Recorded Nov.23, 1881 > >Recorded Record Book 28 page 189 > >transcribed and copied by: Diane K. Madding Ricks 13 Oct. 2004 > >*************************************************************************** > >This is an automatically-generated notice. If you'd like to be removed from >the mailing list, please visit Forum at ><http://www.tngenweb.org/rutherford/webbbs/wills/index.cgi>, or send your >request to [email protected] If you wish to respond to this message, >please post your response directly to the board. Thank you!