Crockett Co., TN - Will: Green H. Mason
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Item J#016

WILL OF GREEN H. MASON

Probated September Term 1886, Minute Book D page 492.

I, Green H. Mason of the County of Crockett & State of Tennessee being sound
of body and mind do make, publish and declare this my last will and testament.

First: I direct that all my debts be paid . . .

Second: I direct that no account of advancement by me to any of my children
shall be taken or made, as I have theretofore given about equally to each of
them but I now hold some notes and accounts against my children and may hold
some other claims against them when I die, and I direct that the sums so due
me, whether notes or accounts I may hold against my children then be out of
date or barred or not by the statutes of limitations, shall be deducted from
the share of each that may owe me respectively at my death, that is so say,
neither of them is to be charged on settlement of my estate with what I have
given him or her but is to pay back out of his or her share what I have loaned
or sold them before my death & this whether the note or account is barred by
the statutes of limitation or not.

Third: I direct that my executors hereinafter named shall as soon as they can
after my death sell all my property real and personal & mixed of which I die
seized and possessed, (except the property herein willed to my wife) at
public, or private sale... and they shall after payment of debts and legacy to
my wife divide the proceeds of such sale together with all other property to
wit: money etc, belonging to my estate equally among my children or their
descendants, (excepting the heirs of my son R.W. Mason, dec’d whose wife
Martha Mason refuses in a certain business transaction to sign her name and
thereby giving or making a Quit Claim Deed to a piece of land that her dec’d
husband R.W. Mason in his life time had deeded Mrs. Polly Herron, in case the
said Martha Mason dose not sign the above mentioned quit claim deed her & the
heirs of R.W. Mason are to be entirely disinherited or not to be known in the
division of my property, though if the said Martha Mason dose assign the above
mentioned deed in question then the heirs of R.W. Mason shall equally share of
my estate so far as the interest of their ded’d father is concerned in my
estate . . .

Fourth: I direct that my Executors shall understand the second and third items
of this will, when notes and accounts against my children are referred to in
either of said items, to mean notes & accounts held by me at death against the
husband of either of my daughters whether she be living or dead as well as
notes and accounts against my sons whether living or dead.

Fifth:  I direct that if my present wife survives me that my Executors give to
her out of my Estate a horse & buggy and set of harness worth altogether not
less than one hundred and fifty dollars cash and that they pay her funeral and
burial expenses when she died; and that they buy and put at her grave
tombstones such as are put at the grave of her former husband, Nimrod Johnson.

Sixth, I hereby revoke and cancel all former wills made by me and nominate &
appoint W.H. Mason, my son & John M. Hannah my son in law Executors to this my
last will and testament.

In witness whereof I hereunto sign my name & affix my seal, on this the 1st
day of April 1884.

s/ Green H. Mason (seal)
Witnesses: J.A. Cox, L.E. Humphreys.