CARROLL COUNTY TN - WILLS - Seletha C. McMahan
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Will of Seletha C. Mc Mahan

State of Tennessee) Carroll County) In the name of God, Amen.

I Seletha C. Mc Mahan of the State and County aforesaid being of sound mind do
make constitute & appoint this my last will & Testament (viz) in the first
place I wish my friends to bury me in a plain decent manner without parrade.
2nd. I give and bequeath to my only son & Child Richard Mc Mahan and his
bodily heirs (born in wedlock) a certain negro girl slave by the name of Maria
(now about seventeen years old) and her increase forever. I also give to my
only son and heir my bed and bedstead and bed furniture, also all my livestock
consisting of one Cow & yearling and one ewe & lamb & it is my desire that
Richard and the property above devised shall remain with my Parents during
their natural life & after their death I wish Brother A. A. Mc Kenzie to take
Richard and the property to Educate him & raise him in the best possible way
he can consistant with the property he may have in his having a prudent care
to the saveing of something for a beginning for him when he arrives to manhood
should he live by way of explication of the last named sentence. I wish him
not to sell any of the property but to manage it in such a manner that he may
be raised clothed and educated in a plain but usefull & substantial manner by
the labour & increase of the property above mentioned. In the event of Richard
dying without lawfull Issue then in that case I want the property above
devised & its increase to be equally divided among all my surviving Brothers &
sisters, except Brother Jeremiah Hall Mc Kenzie who is already rich enough
without anything more.

In testimony of the above I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixted my
seal this 23rd day of August 1836.

Interlined between the seventh & Eighteeth lined before signaturing.

Seletha C. Mc Mahan (Seal)

Signed and sealed in presents of Samuel Winn - Jno. Mc Kenzie Calloway Hardin

Carroll County Court) July Term 1836

This day was produced in open Court the last will & testament of Seletha C. Mc
Mahan which was proven to be her act and deed for the purposes herein
contained by the oaths of James M Mc Kenzie & J. Mc Kenzie two of the
subscribing witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded.

A Copy Test G. Hern Clerk By J. R. Smith D.C.