HARDEMAN COUNTY, TN - WILLS - Obediah McBee's Nuncupative Will
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 ( Will ) listed in "Extracts of Hardeman Co.,TN":
(WILLS - ESTATE SETTLEMENTS AND GUARDIAN BONDS), 
BY (FAYE TENNYSON DAVIDSON & FAE JACOBS OWENS) 
COMPILED BY R. HAROLD COX, 1993,  for Hardeman Co., TN;  
Book 1, page 34. 

*** NUNCUPATIVE=oral will with witnesses***.    

Obediah McBee's Nuncupative Will:  
State of Tennessee]
Hardeman County]
Obadiah is decest the 8th day of November (----?--)   Rickmend my Boddy to its
mother dust, and then my (soul?) to god.  I give in bequeath to my wife Elizabeth 
all my property  (hark?) cattle, hoggs, sheap and (bow ?)  (s?)  (ameition?) (&
C?) and my farm and crops and rifle and one cart and what debts is due me and she
(has?) the management of it to do just as she please  with as (long?) as she lives
and then she may distribut it to ares as she thinks proper.  This the 9th day of
(March?) 1826.   

We Barney Chambers and William H McBee testify that we were present when Obediah
McBee the above last request a nuncupative Will, and we now specially requested
and called to be witness thereto by the said testator himself.  and (?) the same
was made in his own (directing ?) home in last sickness and that the above
contains a true (Account?) of the said Obidiah request and Will relative
disposition of the property, after his death and the same was put in writing next
day after the (said?) Obidiah died. 
Signed;  
(Trust?) Barney Chambers 
(Trust?) William H McBee.
Recorded, Jauy 27th 1827 
Recorded as written, with original spelling and punctuation retained;  
by Elnora Frances Cook-Wyrick.