CANNON COUNTY, TN - WILLS - Estate Paper of David Hollis
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Cannon Co, TN     
County Court Minutes   
Book “C”, pages 178 & 179


State of Tennessee	October Term of the County Court 1852
Cannon County	        
The Petition of Joseph Hollis, 
administrator of David Hollis, Deceased    

  John Hollis, Abraham L Hollis,  David Hollis, Jr, Simeon Hollis, 
William J Walkup and his wife Mary Ann Walkup, formerly Mary Ann Hollis, 
Lewis Bond and his wife Elizabeth Bond, formerly Elizabeth Hollis, 
Luke Lasiter, and his wife Lucinda Lasiter, formerly Lucinda Hollis, 
David J Ara and his wife Mary Ann Ara formerly Mary Ann Hollis. The two 
last mentioned Petitioners (to wit) Lucinda Lasiter, and Mary Ann Ara are
daughter and heirs at law, of James B Hollis, deceased, and granddaughters 
of said David Hollis; Joseph L Hollis, James W Hollis, Ann Elizabeth Hollis 
and Malvina Hollis are minors and heirs at law of James B Hollis, deceased, 
and grandchildren of the said David Hollis, deceased  who have no Regular 
Guardian, all of whom petitioners & defendants are heirs at law and 
distributes of David Hollis deceased. 
    Your petitioners would respectfully state and show unto your worships that 
David Hollis departed this life in the month of June 1852 Intestate and that 
your petitioner Joseph Hollis was appointed by the worshipful county Court as 
his administrator and that he  entered into bond and security as the Law 
directs and has also entered in & upon said Administration.
    You petitioner would further state, that  all nearly all the Personal 
property have been Exhausted that came into the hands of said Administrator 
Joseph Hollis, in the payment of the debts of the said decedent, and that 
there still Remains an outstanding indebtedness against said Estate of an 
hundred dollars with interest for six years--which it is now unpaid and that 
there is no way of paying the same arising from the sale of the Personal 
property, the said debt is due to said  David Hollis, Jr.
   Your petitioners would further state and show unto your worships that said 
David Hollis aforesaid, died seized and possessed of a certain Tract or parcel 
of Land lying and being in Cannon County, Tennessee in Dist 3 on Brawley’s 
fork of Stones River, and Banded as follows, to wit, Beginning and John Mc__ 
south west Corner, on a Buckeye, Bearing south 134 poles to a Shelby Bark 
Hickory, thence East 180 poles to a Cedar sapling, thence north 134 poles to a  
stake, thence west 180 poles to the Beginning. Containing by Estimation 150 
3/4 acres.
   Your Petitioners would here state that it is not only necessary to sell the 
above tract of Land to pay the said outstanding debt. But that it is  
necessary to sell the said Land for distribution among the Heirs and 
distributes as said Land is in a condition that it cannot be partitioned and 
thence it is manifest tothe Interest  of the heirs that the said Land should 
be sold:
   The premises considered that petitioners prays your worships to Issue Copy 
and __ and that the minor children of the James B Hollis deceased, named in 
the coptition of the  Petitioner be made defendants thereto and that a 
Guardian ad litem be appointed for the said Minor heirs, and that he appear at 
the next term of this court and answer this petition, and on final hearing of 
this cause, your petitioners prays your worships to order and decree that the 
said Land above mentioned be sold on such terms as shall be most to the 
Interest of the above named parties and that so much be paid down as shall pay 
the above named outstanding indebtedness also pay all the cost of this 
proceedings. and as is duty Bond will _ pay &c and for further cost Guard ___,   
&c
						GB Davis att
	                                  	for petitioners

State of Tennessee   Personally appeared before me Brinkley Lasiter, Clerk of 
Cannon County	     the County Court of said county, Joseph Hollis and made 
		     oath that the matter and things stated in the above 
		     petition is just and true to the best of his knowledge 
		     and belief. 
                                              	Joseph Hollis

Sworn to subscribed before 
me this 6 of Oct 1852                                                            
B. Lasiter, Clerk


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