CARROLL COUNTY, TN - WILLS - Thomas L. Harris Will ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Anonymous ==================================================================== THOMAS L. HARRIS WILL I Thomas L. Harris of the County of Carroll and State of Tennessee being sound of mind and disposing memory do make and publish this my last will & testament. 1st. i desire all my just debts to be paid out of any moneys that may first come into the hands of my Executors hereinafter mentioned. 2nd I will and bequeath all the property I may be possessed of both personal and real to my daughter Mary Thomas 3rd I desire my Mother in Law Mrs. A. P. Jones to have the use and control of my negro girl Lidy for the use and benefit of my child Mary Thomas during her infancy 4th I desire that my mother Elizabeth B. Harris have the use of and control of such of my property as she may wish except the girl Luba above mentioned so long as she continues to keep house where she now lives 5th At the death of my mother or when she may break up house I desire all my land and the following slaves sold at the discretion of my Executors Jack Heck & Fan said negroes not to be sold at a distance exceeding eight miles from their wives 6th If my daughter Mary Thomas should die leaving no issue I desire my negro girl with her increase be sold and the proceeds equally divided between the living children of my wife's two sisters Sarah E. & Ann J. Gardner the balance of my property of every discription including the proceeds of such as may have been sold Also money if any I wish equally divided between my brothers and Sisters those dead leaving issue their children drawing the parents share I hereby constitute and appoint H. F. Harris B. T. Hillsman & J. H. Hillsman Exectetors to this my last will and testament I also appoint my Executors as guardians of the Estate of my Daughter Mary Thomas during the remainder of her minority commending her to their care and protection. In witness where of I hereunto set my hand and seal this the 14th day of September 1861 Thomas D. Harris (Seal) Witness J. H. Hilsman Sarah Jennett Hilsman Mary A. Hilsman State of Tennessee ) Carroll County ( December Term 1862. At the above term of said court said paper writing was probated as the will of Thomas L. Harris by the testimony of J. H. Hilsman & Mary A. Hilsman and ordered to be recorded of which the foregoing is a copy test. W. H. Graves Clerk