CARROLL COUNTY TN - WILLS - C.B. Smith  1863
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C. B. SMITH'S WILL

State of Tennessee ) Carroll County      (

I Charles B. Smith of the County of Carroll and State of Tennessee do make and
publish this my last will and testament I bequeath to my wife Sarah A. P.
Smith my home place including my residence and all improvements up to a
certain cross fence west of the Stables running north & south and down to a
cross fence east of the lane running north and south to have and to hold the
same during her natural life  And I hereby empower my Executors to rent the
balance of the land as they may think most advantageous to the Estate  I also
bequeath to my wife Sarah A. P. Smith all my personal Estate including
household and kitchen furniture stock of horses cattle hogs and sheep farming
utensils &c and all money notes and accounts which may be on hand at the time
of my death  I request my Executors out of the means which I have hereby
bequeathed to my wife to give to all my children as them may become of age
including my son Thomas now in the State of Massouri the same amount of
property as near as they can that I have given to my older children and at the
death of my wife I will and bequeath that my land and all the personal estate
of every discription be sold and out of the proceeds thereof I bequeath one
hundred dollars to my son Beverly A. Smith and the balance to be equally
divided among all my children including the said Beverly A. Smith. I nominate
and appoint my wife Sarah A. P. Smith my sons William Smith and James M. Smith
my Executors and having full confidence in them that they will execute my will
in good faith they are not requested to give security for the same and the
surviving Executors or executor after the death of my wife  - are hereby
authorized and empowered to sell the land as before bequeathed and make title
to the same as full as if I were alive and doing the same myself. In testimony
whereof I have hereunto set name and seal this 20th day of July 1863.

C. B. Smith

Cyrus Wilson Henry Mc Call

State of Tennessee ) Carroll County      (  At the Oct Term of the County
Court 1863 the foregoing was probated as the last will and testament of C. B.
Smith Decd and ordered to be recorded of which the foregoing is a copy Test

W. H. Graves Clk.