Will of John Garner, 1855:
Name of testator: John GARNER
Date written: February 1855 ( no day given)
Testator’s residence: Anderson County, Tennessee
Executor: Pleasant H. and Hugh Garner
Legatees: Pleasant H. Garner, John Garner, Hugh Garner, Joseph B. Garner, Mary Fustan and children, Jane Henderson and her two children, James Brummit, Nancy Childs and children, James Garner’s heirs, Elizabeth Hendrix and children, Catharine Hendrix and heirs, Rebecca Hall and heirs, Rachel Aldridge and heirs, Synthia Fleming’s two children James Cox and Samuel Fleming, Moses Fleming, Hetty Calloway and heirs.
Slaves: “all my black people”
Witnesses: Tandy Monday, J. E. Tipton
Recording official: R. H.Coward, Clerk
Anderson County Will Book 3, January, 1853 – June, 1859, pp. 314-15.
[Abstracted by Stephanie A. Hill with no corrections to spelling names from a photocopy of the microfilm in the genealogy vertical files at the Lake City Library.]