Source: Sumner County Tennessee, Will Book Vol. 5, page 61
page 61
In the name of God, Amen.
This is my last Will and Testament, first, at my death I will that all my just debts be paid. I have given Henry Gant my oldest son, and John Gant my second son, and John Woodson Rippy my grand-son, Two Hundred and forty dollars worth of land apiece, and I will the residue of my estate both real and personal and all that I should have to my wife her life time and at her death my two daughters, Mary and Martha to have the residue of my real estate equally divided and Martha is to have the old homestead with all the improvements for services rendered by her during my life, and my personal to be equally divided between my four children, after the girls are made equal with the boys, and that my son John Gant to take care of my daughter Mary her life time.
This the 1st day of May A. D. one thousand eight hundred and eighty.
Jacob Gant
Witness,
J. F. Lambert
J. M. Lambert
State of Tennessee
Sumner County June Term County Court June 16th 1893.
A paper writing purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Jacob Gant dec'd was this
day produced in open Court for probate and duly proven by the oaths of J. F. Lambert and J. A.
Lambert subscribing witnesses thereto when the same is ordered recorded.
A true copy test
Harris Brown Clk.
(Note; the initial M. & A. in the second Lambert is way it was written. JP)