CARROLL COUNTY, TN - WILLS - CORNELIUS CARVER'S WILL
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CORNELIUS CARVER'S WILL

State of Tennessee ) Carroll County(

I Cornelius Carver do make and publish this as my last will and testament
hereby revoke & making void all other wills by me at any time made. First I
direct that my funeral Expences and all my debts be paid as soon after my
death as possible out of any moneys that I may die possessed of may first come
into the hands of my Executors. Secondly I give and bequeath to my wife Sarah
Carver all my land her life time and at her death the land is to go to my son
Gilbert Carver and also my wife Sarah Carver is to have and to hold all my
property on my plantation her life time and to dispose of as she sees proper
and I also bequeath unto my daughter Elisa Carviar is to have Fifty Dollars so
as to make her equal with Margaret Akers my daughter my daughter. I do hereby
nominate an appoint my Executors in witness whereof I do to this my will set
my hand and seal this Oct the 16th 1852.

Cornelius Carver (Seal) X his mark

Test A. Gillis Willson Mebane Thomas W. Carver.

Signed sealed and published in our presence and we have subscribed our names
hereto in the presents of the testator this day Oct the 16th 1852.



State of Tennessee ) Carroll County( December Term 1852

This day a paper writing purporting to be the last will and testament of
Cornelius Carver was brought in open court and duly proven by the oathes of A.
Gillis & William Mebane and ordered by the court to be recorded of which the
above is a copy test.

A Copy Test W. A. Graves Clerk