BEDFORD COUNTY, TENNESSEE - WILLS - MARY MEEK, 5 JANUARY 1856

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Mary Meek's Will

    I Mary Meek of the County of Bedford and State of Tennessee being 
weak of body but of sound mind and memory do make, ordain, and publish 
this to be my last will and testament in manner and form as foreunto, 
to wit.
    It is my wish and desire that my son James Meek shall have my tract 
of land and I do hereby will and bequeth the said land to him which is 
land I bought of Mr. Martin and said land is situated in the County of 
Weakley in the Western District of the state, Tennessee and containing 
one hundred acres more or less, provided always that the said James Meek 
shall pay the sum of five hundred dollars after deducting twenty dollars 
I owe him out of the sum.
    I will and bequeth to my two daughters Mary Jane Hopkins and Matilda
Robinson the four hundred and eighty dollars that will be coming from 
James Meek for my tract of land in said...  It is my will that my son 
James Meek ... pay to my said daughters  or their heirs the said sum of 
four hundred eighty which is to be divided equally among them after all 
debts be paid for. I hereby revoke all other wills by me at any time made 
as witness my hand this 5 day of January A.D. 1856.
Signed and witnessed
Joseph Anderson
W.B. Fisher
Solomon B. Britter