TSL&A Microfilm - Roll #91
Probate Records (County or Chancery Court)
Wills Vol. 1 - 5; July 1789 - July 1904
Transcribed by
Jan J. Barnes
©2002
County Court Clerk's Office
Will Book - Vol. III
Aug. 1842 - Aug 1870
Page 238
I Daniel Latimer do make and publish this as my last Will and Testament
hereby revoking all former wills by me made.
1st I desire that my funeral expenses and all my debts if any
there should be, should be paid out of any money have or as soon as
it can be collected.
2nd I desire that whatever I may die possessed of shall be equally
divided among my children James Fitch Latimer, Thomas Latimer, John Latimer,
Daniel Latimer, Alexander Latimer, William Latimer, Jane Durrett, Abigail
Fitch Hunt, Elizabeth Lucas, & Mary Moss after the death of my wife Elizabeth
. Should she survive me she is to have my plantation & the use
of Negroes during her life then if my sons Alexander & William prefer
it they are to have the plantation divided between them as equitable as it
can be & receive it at what it is valued at on the tax list if they don't
want it then it may be sold publickly or privately at the discretion of my
Executor by consulting my heirs as to my slaves if my children can agree
& divide them at their worth if they cannot divide them then they are
to be sold to the highest bidder unless they my heirs can agree and sell
them privately whatever any of my children may have received provisions to
my death is to be deducted from their share of what I may leave, a memorandum
of which is contained in a Book I keep for that purpose and I do appoint
my son Thomas Latimer my Executor in witness of which I do this my last Will
set my hand and Seal this 25th February 1850.
A. H. Guthrie pro
Daniel Latimer
, Sen. (Seal)
James H. Hart pro
State of Tennessee
Sumner County Court November Term 1856
The last Will and Testament of Daniel Latimer was this day produced in open
Court for probate and was duly proved by the oaths of A. H. Guthrie and James
W.? Hart subscribing witnesses thereto and is ordered to be recorded and
Thomas Latimer the Executor named in said will appeared in open Court and
renounced his Executorship and thereon William Latimer and W. W. Moss was
appointed Administrators with the will annexed together with James A. Lucas
and Daniel Latimer his securities appeared in open Court and entered into
and acknowledged their Bond to the State of Tennessee in the penal sum of
Ten thousand dollars as Administrators with the will annexed and were duly
qualified.
Copy test
John L. Bugg Clerk
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