WASHINGTON COUNTY, TENNESSEE - WILL OF MARY (WHITE) GIBSON, 1840

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Mary [White] Gibson's Will

In the name of God amen, I Mary Gibson of the State of Tennessee,
Washington County, being for a long time in low health and weaking 
body but of sound mind and memory but calling to mind the mortality 
of my body and knowing that it is [appartical?] for all men to die, 
so make this instrument of writing  my last will and testament for 
the distribution of the Estate, the estate that is coming to me from
my Father's Estate in the following manner to wit,  
first I give and bequeath my beloved son William Edgmonde Twenty dollars; 
secondly I give and bequeath unto my daughter Jemima  twenty dollars.
Thirdly I give and bequeath unto my daughter Sarah ten dollars; 
forthly I give and bequeath unto my daughter Rachel ten dollars 
and unto my daughter Mary ten dollars; 
and the balance of the Estate if any I do will and bequeath divided 
amongst them.  
Lastly I nominate and appoint Thomas Fulkerson Executor of this my 
Last Will and Testament to carry the same into effect hereby revoking
all others and only acknowledge this to be my Last Will and testament
and have hereafter set my hand and seal in the presence of this 
22nd day of August 1840

Signed & seal in presence of 			Mary Gibson "seal"
Isaac W. Fulkerson
Jep Headrick 
Charles Coocs