This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/UiB.2ACI/1102.1 Message Board Post: JOHN W. AVERY made his will October 15, 1841, and it was recorded by the Wilson Co., TN, Court, November 25, 1841.[Wills & Inventories, 1839-1842, p. 260f] He lists his heirs: wife, MALINDA AVERY; witnesses, Thomas E. Morris and Matthew Horn. Executor was WILLIAM TARVER. WILLIAM TARVER made his will September 15, 1848, and it was recorded in Wilson CO., TN, October 22, 1849. [W&I, 1848-1853, p. 80] He mentions: wife, SUSANNAH TARVER; daughters MALINDA AVERY, MARTHA ANN RIGAN, LUCINDA TARVER, MARY SUSAN KITTRELL, and CALVIN PERRY; son, TILMON L. TARVER, granddaughter SEPHRONA C. TARVER; grandson, CALVIN PERRY to receive the brown horse he rode to Smith Co.; Witnesses: Wood H. Shearin and SILAS N. TARVER. Executrix, SUSANNAH TARVER