GIBSON COUNTY, TN - WILLS - John White 1859
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September Term 1859, Gibson County, Tennessee 
I, John White, do make and publish this last will and testament hereby revoking
and making void all other wills by me at any time. 

Made first – I direct that my funeral expenses and all my debts be paid as soon
after my death as possible. Out of any moneys that I may produce or may first come
into the hands of my executor – secondly, I give and bequeath to Sarah P. White,
my wife, my tract of land that she may live on and house hold and kitchen
furniture and my negro girl Catherine to have and to hold her natural life time or
____ her widowhood and thus I desire that she have my bay mare and one cow and
calf…. One ____ and eight Shoate and all sheep and all the present crop of corn
and fodden and all the crop of wheat ….and all the present crop of potatoes, two
plows and one ____ of ____ and at the death of my wife, Sarah P. White, my land to
be equally divided among all of my children and if my girl Catherine should out
live, my wife Sarah P. White, to be divided equally among the children. And I
desire that John, my son, have the bay colt and saddle and bridle and I desire
that my three daughters, Mary A. White, Nancy L. White and Sarah F. White, keep
their saddles and lastly I do whereby nominate and appoint William Rufus White, my
executor, in witness whereof, I do this my will. Set my hand and seal this the
20th day of June 1859.


John White, seal 
Signed and sealed in our presence and we have subscribed our names hereto in the
presence of the testator, this the 20th day of June 1859. 

J. D. Layton
James S. Haynes
(County, Gibson, Roll No. 65, Book F Nov. 1856 - Dec. 1962) Page 311, Probate record)



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Wm R. White Executor Bond (for John White’s Will)
State of Tennessee, Gibson County, TN. W.R. White, Job Hicks and James M.
Armstrong are bonded to the State of Tennessee in the penalty of one thousand
dollars, witnessing our hand and seals this 5th day of September 1859. The
condition of this obligation is such that whereas the above bonded, William R.
White has been appointed executor of the goods and chattels, rights and ____, of
John White, deceased, now if the said duties as such executors this obligation
shall be void otherwide to remain in full force ____. 
W. R. White, seal
Jobe Hicks, seal
James M. Armstrong,seal