SEVIER COUNTY, TN - WILLS - Eli H. Roberts

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Last Will and Testament of Eli H. Roberts..

State of Tennessee, County of Sevier

Know all men by these presence that I, Eli H. Roberts being of sound mind
and wishing to dispose of my property before my death.

1st. I will and bequeath to my son Albert W. Roberts the land and buildings
which I bought from Mattie Huskey known as the Coram Atchley place, having
paid out for him schooling, board and books & c for which I think will equal
him with my other heirs.

2nd. I will and bequeath to my daughter Martha A. Hodges and her heirs the
east end of my home farm a division line to begin at the road at the upper
corner of the old garden then north streight to the garden gate near the
smoke house then streight witht he garden and wire fence to the corner
between me and P.M. and T.E. Atchley and then east with our line to the
Haggard corner at the spring branch and then S.E. to a walnut corner near
the public road, then S.W. to a scafac stump near a cedar, then with J.T.M.
Connatser's line to the beginning. I except a road from the beginning at the
corner of the garden to the public road near the S.H. Atchley residence for
the use of the west end of the farm. I also will and bequeath to Martha A.
Hodges and her heirs five acres of timber land of the east end of the
Parrott land, and where W.L. Dudley lives, beginning at the public road
halfway between the bridge across the brand and the foot of the hill toward
P.H. Hill's residence and to run from there N.W. to Wm. Etherton's line. So
as to cut off five acres and run with Etherton's line and P.H. Hill's line
with Hill's line to the public road and with said road to the beginning and
also my book desk and a small blue table, and the best bed and stead that
stands upstairs.

3rd. I will and bequeath to my daughter, Hallie D. Roberts and to her heirs,
the west end of my home farm and all the buildings, line beginning at the
road at the upper corner of the old garden and run from there to the garden
gate near smoke house and streight from there with the palen and wire fence
to the corner between me and P.M. and T. E. Atchley and from there with the
line between me and P.M. and T. E. Atchley to May Waugh's line and with her
line J.T.M. Connatser's line and all the corn and roughness that may be on
hand at my death and one milk cow and one little bay mare and my rubber tire
buggy and all the meat and lard we may have on hand at my death and canned
fruit and all the kitchen furniture and my bed and stead and her mother's
chest and all the money her mother had at her death and the two telephones
and two rocking chairs and one set of the best sitting chairs, one chopping
ax and my watch and two clocks and the bed and stead that stands in the back
room and bureau and my Bible.

4th. I will and bequeath to my daughter Cary J. Dudley and to her heirs the
west end of the farm known as the Parrott farm of the upper end and that my
daughter, Cary J. Dudley and her heirs have the remainder of said farm with
all the buildings and that she have my chest and that W.L. Dudley shall have
the two horse wagon and the two horse cultivator and that W. E. Hodges have
the two horse wagon and cultivator which I gave to them.

And that my old buggy be sold and mowing machine and disk harrow and
blacksmith tools and should my old horse Charlie outlive me that he be kept
on the old home place and feed off the proceeds of the two farms.

And as soon after my death as is convenent that my executor collect all my
debts and pay all debts that I owe, and my doctor bill and funeral expenses,
and I hereby appoint W.D. Atchley as my executor of this my Last Will and
Testament.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal on this 19 Day of
Feb. 1916.

                                               Eli H. Roberts

Then and there signed and published by Eli H. Roberts, the testator, as and
for his Last Will in the presence of us who at his request, in his presence
and in the presence of each other have hereto set our names as witnesses.

J.R. Fain, H.D. Bailey

Probated by the County Court of Sevier County, Tennessee, September 5,
1916.

                                            A.T. Marshall, Clerk