CARROLL COUNTY, TN - WILLS - Sowell Barham's noncupative Will
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SOWELL BARHAM'S NONCUPATIVE WILL

W. Harman Mc Gee and David Evans do state that the noncupative will of Sowell
Barham was made by him on the twenty seventh day of June in the year of our
Lord Eighteen hundred and fifty six in our presents to which we ware spcially
requested to bear witness by the testator himself in the presence of each
other that it was made in his last sickness in his own dwelling house and the
same is as follows to wit It is his will and desire that his effects should be
disposed of after his decease in the following manner 1st     That all his
just debts should be paid 2nd    Secondly that his son John Barham should have
the black  mule and three hundred dollars in money 3rd    Thirdly that his
beloved wife Jane Barham should have the balance of his effects during her
natural life and after the death of my beloved wife Jane Barham it is my will
that all my effects left by my said wife Jane Barham that the same be equally
divided between all my children made out by us and signed this the 8th day of
July 1856.

Harmon Mc Gee David Evans

State of Tennessee  ) Carroll County       (  August Term 1856

At this term of said court was produced in open court the above will of Sowel
Barham Decd & was duly proven by the Testimony of Herman Mc Gee & David Evans
& ordered to be duly recorded.

W. H. Graves.