WHITE COUNTY, TN - WILLS - Asa Crawley, 13 Mar 1825
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WILL OF ASA CRAWLEY - WHITE CO., TN, COURT MINUTES - PAGE 206 - MAR. 13, 1825

   In the name of God Amen.  I Asa Crawley of the County of White & State
of Tennessee, being weak in body but of healthy and sound mind Do make and
ordain this my last will and testament.

Item first.  Knowing and believing that it is appointed for all men once to
die, I recommend my soul to that merciful God who gave it & my body to the
earth with a decent and christian burial.

Item second.  In relation to my pecuniary affairs, it is my wish and
direction, that my aged father and mother, should have the full and pre____
enjoyment of all and singular the land with its appurtenances & all the
personal property contained in a deed of bargain & sale between my said
father Thomas Crawley and myself under date the 17th September 1821, which
deed was recorded the October following in the County Court of White and
Registered the fifteenth of January ensuing which deed etc. this my last
will and testament has special reference to, which aforesaid land property
etc. or whatever may be remaining thereof at my death to remain in the
possession of & to the sole use and behalf of my said father and mother
during their natural lives and when it shall please the almighty disposed
of human events to take both of them from this transitory life then
whatever of the aforesaid property may be remaining, for each of my
brothers and sisters, or thru legal representatives together with my legal
representatives to have an equal interest in the aforesaid land property
etc. with the exception of my brothers John & Thomas who has already
received one horse each supposed to be worth seventy dollars each, which
sum of seventy dollars each to be taken into the estimate & from their
legacies.

Item third.  In order to carry the foregoing will & testament into effect I
do by these presents ordain constitute and appoint my aged father Thomas
Crawley and my dearly beloved wife Hopestill Crawley to be my lawful
executor and executrix of this my last will and testament, and I do hope
and request them to act accordingly.  Signed with my own hand this 13th day
of March in the year of our Lord 1825.

Asa Crawley

Signed _____ and delivered in presence of
Rand. Ross				
State of Tennessee				
White County			
April Sessions 1825

	The due execution of the above last will and testament of Asa Crawley
Decd. was this day proven in open Court by the oath of Randolph Ross a
subscribing witness thereto for the purposes and things therein mentioned,
and ordered to be recorded, and the said Thomas Crawley and Hopestill
Crawley was sworn as executor and Executrix, to execute the said last will
and testament.  Given at office 18th April 1825.

Recorded and examined 14th July A. D. 1825
Test - Jacob Adam (?) Clerk of White County Court