PRENTISS RAD SMITH, DECEASED
(1935)
ADMINISTRATION State of
Tennessee McNairy County
We, Mrs. Vercie Smith
as principal and W.R. Hurley
are bound to the State of Tennessee in
the penalty of one thousand dollars.
Witness our hands, this 22nd day of Aug.
1935.
The condition of this obligation is
such: That, whereas the above-bound Mrs.
Vercie Smith has been
appointed administratrix of P.R.
Smith, deceased:
Now, if the said Mrs. Vercie
Smith shall well and truly as
such administratrix perform all the
duties which are or may be required by
law, this obligation shall be void,
otherwise to remain in full force and
virtue.
Mrs. Vercie Smith
W.R. Hurley
A.R. Hurley
STATE OF TENNESSEE
McNairy County
To: Mrs. Vercie Smith
It appearing to the County Court, now in
session, that Mrs. Vercie
Smith ( this is an error and it
should read P.R. Smith),
has died, leaving no will, and the Court
being satisfied as to your claim to the
administration, and you having given
bond and qualified as directed by law,
and the Court having ordered that
LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION be issued to
you: These are, therefore, to authorize
and empower you to take into your
possession and control all the goods and
chattels, claims and papers of the said
intestate, and return to our next County
Court a true and perfect inventory
thereof; to collect and pay all debts,
and to transact all the business in
relation to the said estate which
lawfully devolves on you as
administrator; and after having settled
up said estate, to deliver the balance
which may remain in your hands to those
who are by law entitled to receive the
same.
Witness, W.E. Sewell,
Clerk of our said Court, at his office
in Selmer, this 22nd day of Aug. 1935.
W.E. Sewell, County
Court Clerk.
McNairy County, Tennessee court minutes
August term, 22nd day of Aug. 1935 page
497
MRS. VERCIE SMITH,
ADMINISTRATRIX of P.R. SMITH, DECEASED
This day Mrs. Vercie Smith
presented in open Court a sworn petition
from which appears that P.R.
Smith has died intestate in
McNairy County, Tennessee, at his usual
place of residence on the 17th day of
June, 1935, leaving a personal estimate
of about $500.00 it appearing that Mrs.
Vercie Smith is a
suitable person to act as Administratrix
of the estate of P.R. Smith,
deceased, it is therefore ordered that
Mrs. Vercie Smith be
appointed as the Administratrix of the
estate of P.R. Smith,
deceased, upon executing proper bond in
the penal sum of $1000.00. Thereupon
Mrs. Vercie Smith as principal and W.R.
Hurley and A.R.
Hurley as sureties entered
into, bond in open Court as above
provided, the same is therefore approved
by the Court, and the Clerk is ordered
to enter said bond in its proper place
on the Administrator bond Book and the
original will remain on file, and the
said Mrs. Vercie Smith
being duly sworn as the law requires
such Administratrix it is therefore
ordered that letters of Administration
issue to the said Mrs. Vercie
Smith which is according done.
R. Carter Smith, County
Chairman.
