CARROLL COUNTY TN - WILLS - Nimrod Kelly 1850
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Nimrod Kelly's Will

I Nimrod Kelly do make and publish this as my last will and testament hereby
making void all other wills by me at any time made. first I direct that my
funeral expenses and all my debts be paid as soon after my death as possible
out of any moneys that I may die possessed of or may first come into the hands
of my executrix. Secondly I give and bequeath to my daughter single woman
Narcissa Kelly my land on which I now live lying in the State of Tennessee and
in the County of Carroll & on Reedy Creek on the new Jackson Road it being
land settled by Old John Butler & bounded S. Wm. Anderson & E. Josiah Anderson
W. George Montgomery & Barton Hicks & W. by Elizabeth Hicks it being all the
land I now possess and thirdly that the balance of my effects be distributed
share and share alike as the law may direct. Lastly I do hereby nominate and
appoint Margaret Kelly my wife my Executrix in witness whereof I do this will
set my hand and seal this 25th day of April 1850.

Nimrod Kelly (Seal) his mark

Signed sealed and published in our presents and we have Subscribed our names
hereto in the presents of the testator this 25th day of April 1850.

Danl Mc Leod Wesley H. Allmon

State of Tennessee) Carroll County) October Term 1850

This day a paper writing purporting to be the last will and testament of
Nimrod Kelly was produced in open court & duly proven by the oaths of Daniel
Mc Leod & Wesley H. Allmon the subscribing witnesses thereto and ordered to be
Recorded.

A Copy Test Y. W. Allen Clerk By J. C. Whitehorn, D. C.