Source: Sumner County Tennessee, Oct. 1870 - April 1891, Will Book Vol. 4
Page 237
On the 24th. day of May 1882, Mary Goodrich deceased, at her house in Gallatin Sumner County Tenn. declared in the presence of the undersigned. whom she especially requested to bear witness there to. that her will was as follows ; that Mrs. Latitia Goodrich should have a note for one hundred dollars, executed by Robert Love to her the said Nancy Goodrich, deceased. the said Mary Goodrich died on the 11th. day of July 1882.
Written and signed by us August 5th. 1882.
Mary Gray
Martha Gray
State of Tennessee
Sumner County Court August Term 1882.
Mary Gray & Marthya Gray produced in open Court this the 10th. day of August 1882 the Will of Mrs Mary
Goodrich, deceased reduced to writing by them & signed by them & asked to be permitted to prove the
same as the noncupative Will of said Mary Goodrich. And it ( pg 238) to prove the same as the noncupative
will of said Mary Goodrich. And it appearing to the Court that all the next of kin of the said Mrs Mary
Goodrich deceased living in this State or that conveniently be found have been summoned & notified to
contest the probate of said Will if they choose, and the said Will as reduced to writing by Mary Gray &
Martha Gray, and signed by them as witnesses of said noncupation having been produced in open Court
this day, and they, the said Mary & Martha Gray, be4ing disinterested and competent witnesses after being
sworn in open Court, testified that said writing was the last will of said Mrs Mary Goodrich, deceased, as
thereof written and that they as witnesses thereto were called upon by her in her life time to bear witness
especial to the fact that such was her will. And it further appearing to the Court, that the said witnesses
Nancy & Martha Gray were both specially at the same time in the presence of each other and the Testatrix,
called upon to hear and bear witness to the said noncupation as stated in the writting propounded as the
Will of said Mary Goodrich, that the same was reduced to writing, signed by and offered for probate by said
witnesses within the time as required by law. It is ordered by the Court that said Will be received, filed and
recorded in the Will-book of this County, as the last Will and Testament of Mary Goodrich, deceased, it
having been so proven to the satisfaction of the Court.
Copy Test. O. H. Foster Clerk