KNOX COUNTY, TENNESSEE - WILL OF JASPER N. DAVIS, 1918

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MAY TERM 1918

Jasper N. Davis

March 1, 1918

The Will of Jasper N. Davis

I. Jasper N. Davis of the County of Knox and State of Tennessee,
being of sound mind and disposing memory, do make and publish this 
my last will and testament, here by revoking and making void all 
former wills by me at any time here to fore made and 

	First	I direct that all my just debts and funeral expenses 
be paid as soon after my death as possible of uot [sic] of any moneys
that I may die possessed of, or may first come in to the hands of my executor from any source or any portion of my estate real or personal-

	Second; I direct that all debts owing me at my death be collected
as soon as possible.

	Third I direct that my body be buried in New Gray Cemetery near 
the bodies of my beloved wife Clara Tucker Davis and my son Albert 
Davis, and that My grave be marked by a fifty dollar Monument.

	Fourth After all my debts are paid I give and bequeath to my
esteemed and dutiful Sister-in - law Mrs. Willie Tucker Sanderson and 
her husband Dan B. Sanderson all my Estate real and personal 
( Consisting of (1st) one mortgage for Seven hundred ( $700.00) dollars 
on a house on Campbell Ave in Lonsdale (a suburb of Knoxville Tenn)

	2nd	One note for Twelve hundred and fifty ($1250.00) 
dollars on J. G. Davis and his wife Minnie Davis both of Jefferson 
City Tenn

	3rd.	About Eleven hundred ($1100.00) dollars in cash now in 
the East Tennessee National Bank of Knoxville and 4th Any other property either real or personal I may die possessed of . ) to dispose of said property as they (Mrs. [sic] and Mrs. D B Sanderson) deem suitable for their use or benefit.

	Sighed [sic] and sealed and acKnowledged [sic] and published 
as the last Will of Jasper N. Davis in our presence as witnesses

The testator and Witnesses signed this document in the presence of each
other.

	I do hereby appoint the afore mentioned Dan B. Sanderson as my 
the executor of this my last Will and testament and do declare that he shall not be required to give security as my executor.

	Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of Witnesses. March 1,
1918

	Jasper N [x] Davis
	[his Mark]

		Witnesses	Dr. Thomas F. Fitzgerald
				C. C. Coward.

This March 1, 1918.
Probated in Minute Book No. 2 page 599


[Transcriber's notes: Jasper was a GGGG uncle of mine. He married
Clara S. Tucker in Knox County 7 June 1896. Jasper was a son of 
Albert and Deborah Ann (Cate(s)) Davis of Grainger and Knox Counties. 
I am a descendant of Jasper's brother, Francis Marion Davis (1849–1882),
who is buried with Albert and Deborah at Mt. Harmony Baptist on Raccoon
Valley Drive in north Knox County. The J. G. Davis mentioned in the will 
was a paternal cousin of Jasper's. Joseph G. Davis was a son of Tilford 
and Martha (Lloyd) Davis of Grainger County who were married 18 March 
1858 in Grainger.

—Jesse K. Moore, Lexington, Kentucky, jkmoore@usa.net]