WILLIAM STACY'S WILL
I William Stacy of the County of Carroll and State of Tennessee being of
sound mind and memory and considering the uncertainty of this frail life do
therefore make ordain publish and disclose this to be my last will and
Testament.
(That is to say) first after all my lawful debts & funeral expences
are paid and discharged I desire an equal proportion of the proceeds of my
Estate to go to my children Jacob Stacy Thomas Stacy Gincey Sherrill Huldy Horn
Polly Allen and Louisa Roby except that I give and bequeath unto the hirs of the
body of my deceased daughter Betsy Lorance one half of the amount that I give to
each of the children above named all of the money which I may die possessed of I
wish to be taken into possession by my Executors as soon as may be after my
decease and as soon as may be thought practicable by my Executors after my
decease. I desire them to expose for sale to the highest bidder at the
premises on which I now reside all of my real and personal estate on a credit of
six months notes and approved security being taken and also a lien retained on
my land (about seventy acres) for the purchase money of the same.
(The following exceptions is to be taken to the above requisitions) all
sales coming under five Dollars are to be cash.
When the proceeds of the sale shall be divided as also all other monies which
may come into the hands of my Executors (either having been on hand or collected
from persons now or at the time of my decease indebted to me) I
particularly will and desire that the portion of money going to my Daughters
Gincey Sherrill & Louisa Roby be paid by my Executors into their own hands
for their sole and seperate use, their husbands having nothing to do with the
same.
In the settlement with Huldy Horn I desire a note which I now hold on her for
about one hundred and twenty five dollars to be taken into consideration it
being for money furnished out of my pocket a portion of which was silver, but it
is my will and desire that no interest be collected on the same, I also
hold the note of James Roby the husband of my daughter Louisa for about forty
Dollars with John Norman as security I wish this to be collected and
appropriated in the division, any notes or outstanding accounts which I may have
against Jacob, Thomas Huldy Horn (with the exception of the hundred and twenty
five dollars note) Gincey Sherrill, Polly Allen & my daughter Louisa I
do not wish taken into consideration on a settlement with my Executors I may
come into their hands to pay them for the trouble what they may be at in
settleing my business.
Before my effects shall be sold I wish a notice written of the sale to be given
in Huntindon and such other places as may be thought proper fifteen days before
the sale I hereby make constitute and appoint Lucien L. Hawkins and my son
Thomas W. Stacy to be Executors of this my last will and testament hereby
revoking all former wills by me made In witness whereof I have hereunto
subscribed my name and affixed my seal the 23rd day of April in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty four.
William Stacy
X his mark
The above written instrument was subscribed by the said William Stacy (By making his mark) in our presence and acknowledge by him to each of us, and he at the same time published and declared the above instrument so subscribed to be his last will and testament and we at the testators request and in his presence have signed our names as witnesses hereto
I. H. Noell
T. A. Douglass
State of Tennessee )
Carroll County ( July Term 1865
At the above term of said court the foregoing was probated as the last will & Testament of William Stacy Decd which was duly probated and ordered to be recorded Of which the foregoing is a copy Test
W. H. Graves Clerk.