CARROLL COUNTY, TN - WILLS - James Holmes Will
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James Holmes' Will

I James Holmes do make and publish this  my  last  will  and  Testement  herby
revoking and making void all other wills by me at any time made first I derect
that my funeral enpenses and all my debts be paid as soon after  my  death  as
posable out of any money that I may died possessed of or  may  come  into  the
hands of my Executor.

Second I bequeath to Mary Holmes my dearly beloved wife my ocupent claim  with
all the farming tools also my two mares and all my cattle  and  hogs  &  sheep
House hold and Kitchen furniture crop on hand singalar the goods and  chattles
and all my bee hives and all and and  at  her  death  I  if  there  should  be
anything left I bequeath it to my nephey James Holmes son  of  William  Holmes
and lastly I do hereby nomenate  and  appoint  James  Holmes  my  Executor  in
witness whare of I do to this my will set my hand and seal this  17th  day  of
June in A.D. 1844.

James Holmes (Seal)

Signed sealed and published in our presents and we have subscribed  our  names
here to in the present of the testator this 17th day of June 1844.

John L. Scott Jesse Hardy

State of Tennessee) Carroll County) September Term 1844

This day the last will and Testoment of James Holmes, Decd. was preduced  into
open Court and the Execution duly proven by the oaths of John L. Scott & Jesse
Hardy the two subscribing witness there to and ordered to be recorded.

A Copy Test Y W Allen Clk.