DeKALB COUNTY, TN - WILLS - Henry Stoner, 25 May 1857 ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Wanda Gant Gant@Blomand.net ==================================================================== Contributor's Note: Warren Co., TN 7 July 1824 he entered 8 acres on Collins River in Nunleys Cove adjoining his 30 acres. Witnessed by Mordecai Miller & Archebald Clark. I, Henry Stoner, do make & publish this as my last will & testament hereby revoking & making void all other wills by me at any time made. First, I direct that my funeral expenses be paid and all my just debts, as soon after my death as possible, out of any moneys that I may be possessed of or may first come in to the hands of my Executor. Secondly, I give and bequeath to mywife Elizabeth Stoner two feather beds, bedsteads and furniture. I further give and bequeath to my wife Elizabeth Stoner all the household and kitchen furniture, and I give unto her one cow and heifer, my mare, and five head of hogs, the balance of my property to be sold. I do hereby nominate and appoint to John Stoner my Executor in witness whereof I do to this my will set my hand and seal this 25th day of May 1857. X mark made by Henry Stoner. Signed, sealed and published in our presence and we have subscribed our names hereunto in the presence of the testator the 25th dayof May 1857. JAMES W> DODD, S. CUNNINGHAM. State of TN County Court for DeKalb County August Term 1857 Honorable William H. Magness, County Judge presiding. On motion a paper writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Henry Stoner late of the county of DeKalb, deceased, was offered in open court for probate and was duly proven in open court by the oaths of JAMES W. DODD one of the subscribing witnesses who being first duly sworn in open court depose and says that he was personally acquainted with HENRY STONER the testator and that he acknowledged the deceased execution of the said will or paper writing and that he signed the same in his presence to be his last will or paper writing and that he requests said witnesses to sign the same as such witness and that he was in the proper mind ordered by court that said will or paper writing be recorded. Whereupon JOHN STONER, Executor, appointed by said will or paper writing came into court and was duly qualified as such executor whereupon the said JOHN STONER entered into bond with JAMES W. DODD and JAMES P. STONER his securities approved by the court in the sum of three hundred condition as the law directs which bond was duly acknowledged in open court and ordered to be filed whereupon the said JOHN STONER was duly sworn in open court ordered that letters testamonary issue to him which is done witness W. J. Isbell clerk of our said court the 1st Monday in August AD 1857, clerk. State of TN DeKalb County to JOHN STONER of DEKalb County. It appearing to the court that HENRY STONER has died leaving a written will, in which you are appointed Executor which has been duly proven in open court and you having given bond and qualified according to law and it having been ordered by the said court that letters testamonary issue to you. These are therefore to empower you the said JOHN STONER to enter upon the executor of said will and take into your possession all the property, and to make to the county court a perfect inventory thereof and make due collection of all debts, and after paying all the just debts and demands against the testator and settle up the business according to law. You wil pay over and deliver the property and effects that may remain in your hands and do all other things that may be requested according to the provisions of said will and the laws of the land. Witness W. J. Isbell clerk at office the 7th day of August 1857 and the year of American Independence the 82nd. Grundy Co. Deed Bk. E-413 records John Stoner executor of Henry Stoner decd. a judgment of $166 & cost against Joseph H. Tooley in March of 1858. Fifty acres of land in CD 2 to sell.