DEKALB COUNTY, TN - WILLS - William Childress - 1838 ----¤¤¤---- LAST WILL & TESTAMENT OF WILLIAM CHILDRESS: P. 13 WILLIAM CHILDRESS WILL In the name of God Amen. I William Childress of the county of White and State of Tennessee being low in health but sound in mind and knowing uncertainty of life and the certainty of death and that according the cause of nature I cannot expect long to remain in the land of the living being desiring to have my earthly record desposed of in the manner herein named now in the sixty-ninth year of my age do hereby constitute this my last will and testament. Item Its my decease I bequeath my body to the grave and my soul to Almighty God and it is my wish to have my body decently buried. Item I Give to my wife Chanty Childress the full and fore use and benefit of the land we now live on during here lifetime and at her death it is my Will that the land and all the right title claim and interest I have there unto shall decend to my son Heraim (Hiram) Childress, Item It is my Will and desire that my executors pay to my two Grandsons Ammon and Polly Dildine Children of James Dildine five dollars each in cash Item I give to my daughter Betsy Given, Sally Thomas and Susan Robinson all the remaining property that I may die present of, only my Wife is to have the entire use of all until her death if she should be the longest lives (that is longer than myself) and last of I do hereby nennate constated and appoint James Davis and Isaac Taylor executor to the my last will and testament. In testimony whereof I have set my hand and seal this the 6th day March 1838. his William x Childress (seal) mark Wit. William Robinson William Davis P.14 State of Tennessee Dekalb County March Term 1840 The last Will and Testament William Childress Deceased was presented in open court for probate the will not _____(unreadable) William Robinson one of the subscribing witness thereunto first ______ duly sworn in open court deposed and said that he had not distend recollection of the will nor of signing it but that he could not deny his signature thereunto James Davis was then upon duly sworn who deposed and said that the said will was in his own hand writing and that he was present when William Robinson and William Davis signed the will and that the dec. so in the presents of the estate at his request upon which testemony said will was a limited to ___ record and ordered that setters Testemony I James Davis one of the executors owing copyed with the law Witness my hand at office the 6th March 1840 T.M. Wade Clerk of Dekalb County ****Source: Tennessee Records of Dekalb County, Will Book A 1838-1854, Copied Under Works Progress Administration, Historical Records Project, Official Project No. 65-44-1444, September 1936, Pages 5 & 6. Copied exactly as written verbatim by Elma Greenwood, from Putnam County Library, Cookeville, Tennessee,October 15, 2004. ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Elma Greenwood ___________________________________________________________________