John Dysart's Will

John Dysart's Will

Marshall County Tennessee

Will Book B, pages 277 & 278

STATE OF TENNESSEE)

MARSHALL COUNTY )

I John Dysart a citizen of the State and County aforesaid, being of sound mind and in my proper senses do make this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me made.

After defraying my funeral expenses and paying off my just debts, I will and bequeath to my beloved wife Rachel and my eight children, viz: Salina Jane Dysart, Martha W. Brown, Mary C. Coffey, John H. Dysart, W. H. H. Dysart, Emily A. Preslar, and Margaret A. F. Dysart one equal share each in my personal property = after giving to my wife and Son, Dunlap the following property - extra (viz.) to my wife all my household and kitchen furniture, one cow and calf, one waggon and harnys, two horses and a year's provisions, to my Son Dunlap a young bay mare.

In the division of my personal property, after setting forth the above to my wife and son Dunlap I order that the amounts which I have here after to my children (as follows).

To Salina Jane Dysart ($175) one hundred and Seventy five dollars, Martha H. Brown ($225) Two hundred and twenty five dollars, Emily A. Preslar ($340) Three Hundred and forty dollars, Mary C. Coffey ($385) Thre hundred and Eighty five Dollars and Margaret A. F. Dysart ($160) One hundred and Sixty dollars be credited with the amount due to each of them in this division of the personal Estate and the remainder of each one's account to be cancelled in the division of the land or real estate as Shall be hereafter mentioned.

I will and bequeath to my three sons, John H., W. H. Harrison, and Marshall Dunlap, all the land of which I am possessed consisting of four hundred acres more or less Subject however to the following provisions and limitations. I value all the land in the aggregate Sum of Four thousand Dollars.

Now my sons may pay to my five daughters the balance of five hundred dollars to each which balance is found by dividing the amount due from each after the division

of the personal Estate from the five Hundred dollars.

The aggregate amount to be paid to my daughters by my three sons Shall be as follows - Six hundred dollars to be paid in three years after my death the balance in five years my__________ My sons must also hold the land subject to the Support and maintainence of their Mother or what would in Law amount to a Dower.

Now when such provisions shall have been satisfied or such conditions Shall have been fulfilled, then said land shall belong equally and absolutely to my three sons - in common or divided among them as they may think best.

I hereby constitute and appoint _________(a long blank space)________________

to be the Executors of this my last will and testament.

In testimony Whereof I hereto set my hand and seal this 15^th day of December 1870. John Dysart

Test---- R. S. Montgomery Jurat Aug 7/71

J. S. Nowlin " " "

STATE OF TENNESSEE)

MARSHALL COUNTY ) County Court August Term 1871.

Personally appeared here in open Court R. S. Montgomery & Dr. J. S. Nowlin the subscribing Witnesses to the forgoing will who after first being duly sworn, proved the due execution of the same as the law directs - which was by the Court ordered to be recorded.

Witness my hand at office in Lewisburg; this August 7^th 1871.

R. L. Adams Clerk

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