Mcnairy County TN Archives Wills.....Fulwood, Jno P. February 19, 1872
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Source: Tennessee State Library And Archives Microfilm Roll #20 Mcnairy County
Written: February 19, 1872
Recorded: August 5, 1872

Feby 19th 1872

State of Tennessee
McNairy County

Know all men that I J.P.Fullwood of sound and well disposing mind do make and
ordain the following to be my last will & testament.

First- I bequeath my spirit to god who gave it & my boddy to the earth out of
which it came to be intered with decency I do not want what is termed a funeral
at surmon preached at my Interment or afterwards as I find no warrant for the
custom in the Scriptures sorrowing for the dead as enjoined friends can tell
when without the preachers eulogies.

Second-That all my just debts be paid for which there is means sufficient
without going to trouble of administering on the little effects in my possession.

Third- I further will & bequeath to beloved wife Margaret the improvements on a
plantation laying on  Water Branch to have & to hold to rent or lease or sell as
she may see proper to gather with the rent of the place as it may accrue anually
The Improvements as the labour of our hands jointly and I want her to have the
full benefit of all .  I do hereby will & bequeath to my beloved wife Margaret
the tract of Land on which we now reside at Stantonville provided she pays the
remainder due on the land one hundred & ten Dollars to J. S. Winningham she has
or will have the means when it is due.

Fifth- Be it further known that I hereby make my beloved wife Margaret my agent
that she may transact business to sell the Land on which she resides if she sees
proper and fully empower her to make deed of conveyance.

Sixth- That my beloved wife Margaret take all my personal property -the same to
have and to hold and use at her descretion I hereby affix my Hands & Seals.

Jno. P. Fulwood

Test  

Thos R. Beck
J.K. Andrews

The within well proven in open court by the above subscribing witnesses in
common form of Law 5th August 1872.
J.G. Gooch
Chairman

Additional Comments:
Misspelled words like "boddy" for body, "surmon" for sermon were left as
written.  There was very little punctuation written in original.  

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