KNOX COUNTY, TN - WILLS - Curd Cox, 5 Dec 1884
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Contributor's Note:  This 1884 will is for my 2g-grandfather, Curd Cox.  This 
is but one of the 4 grandsons who were named for their grandfather; this Curd 
was the son of Moses Cox & Mary Polly Conner.      

It's interesting that he mentions James Crippen in the will, as that is 
another of my lines thru the marriage of Smith Major & Elizabeth Crippen in 
1796.  

Note that Curd names his wife Mary (Renfro) & his son John C. Cox (my 
g-grandfather) as his executors.     His son John C. Cox died in Harrington, 
Washington in 1901 & is buried in Harrington Cemetery.   John's wife 
Elizabeth Major Cox & most of his family rests at Fairview Baptist Church 
Cemetery in north Knox County, Tn.   Our oral history says John had gone up 
to Washington State to work on the winter wheat harvest & died in a farming 
accident when he fell & was run over by one of those old threshing machines.

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January Term 1885
Curd Cox
State of Tennessee, Knox County
December 5th 1884

I,  Curd Cox, do make and publish this as my last will and testament
hereby revoking and making void all other wills by me at any time made.
1st. First - I direct that John C. Cox and my wife Mary Cox be the 
appointed executors of this my will.
2nd. Secondly. I will to the above named Executors a boundary of land
lying in the 7th Civil District of Knox County lying in the South East
corner of a tract of land that I bought of James F.  Crippen.  Beginning
on a rock in the branch in Bells line running parallell with Moses 
Cox line to Crippens line back to the beginning, these being five acres 
more or less.
       I will that the Executors sell the above named land and pay all
my just debts out of the procedes there of    My will is that the
residue if any be used in repairing the Balance of the homested.
     I will that the executors of this will are not required to give
Bond and In witness whereof I do to this my will set my hand
and seal this 5 day of December 1884.
                                                     Curd Cox

  Signed sealed and published in our 
Presence and we have subscribed
Our names hereto in the presence of
The testator this 5 day of December. 1884.
O. A. Odell  
J. N. Mynatt  
S. C. Mynatt