CARROLL COUNTY, TN - WILLS - NONCUPATIVE WILL OF WILLIAM BELL DECD.
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NONCUPATIVE WILL OF WILLIAM BELL DECD.

I wish my negroes to remain on the farm as they are untill the crops is raised
& gathered I want all my stock sold after the crop is gathered except just
enough for my family I wish my wife to have my mare Jenny and I also desire
that she buy a good gentle horse ot keep on the farm. After the crop is raised
and gathered I want my negroes hired out from year to year untill my youngest
son Henry Comes of age. After the crop is gathered I desire it to be sold. I
wish my wife to hire two of the negroes such as will suit her to keep on the
farm and wait on her and make a support for her and the children. I desire my
son John & my son Henry to have a good Cllegiate Education and I wish my
Brother David Bell & Thomas Bell to see that they get it out of the proceeds
of my Estate and should there not be a sufficient amount of money on hand to
keep them constantly at school I want them to stay at home with their mother
and go to school in the neighbourhood and work on the farm untill there should
be money enough to send them back to Cllege. I want my family to Remain where
they now live and desire that the houses be Repaired for the comefort and
convenience of my family. I desire that my Brother David Bell would attend to
all my business When my youngest son comes of age I want my Esate equally
divided between my wife & my sons. The foregoing is the noncupative will of
William Bell Decd made in our presence in his last sickness at his Residence
in Carroll County Tennessee and to which we were called to bear witness by the
Testator on the 26 day of June 1853. he died on the 28th day of June 1853 this
the 4th day of July 1853.

David Bell T. C. Bell

I concur in the foregoing statement except I understood the Testator to say he
wished his wife to "keep" instead of hire two of the negroes as it now reads.

Henry P. Gaines.



State of Tennessee ) Carroll County( September 5th 1853

This daya paper writing purporting to be the last Noncupative will & Testament
of William Bell Decd. was produced in open court and was duly proven by the
oaths of David Bell T. C. Bell and Henry P. Gaines the subscribing witnesses
according to the Law which the court ordered to be duly recorded.

The above is a Copy Test W. H. Graves Clerk