Will of Margaret Dickey

Dated 20 Jan 1869


Last Will and Testament of
MARGARET DICKEY dec'd
Set up and established November Term 1869

State of Tennessee Dyer County I MARGARET DICKEY being in usual good health of body and of sane mind do this the 20 day of January declare this to be my last will and testament, 1st I will my body to the Earth whence it came. And my Soul to God who gave it 2nd It is my will that out of my worldly effects, at my decease that all my just debts shall be paid and a sufficiency used to secure my body a decent burial 3rd I then will that my brother HIRAM J. THOMAS shall have the use of all means belonging to me that he shall have in his hands at my death for the space of four years by him paying simple interest on same

4th I then will to my nephew D. P. McCORKLE ESQ. Four hundred dollars in money

5th I then will to my nephew JOHN E. McCORKLE Three hundred dollars in money.

6th I then will to my nephew ANDERSON J. McCORKLE the use of my house and lot in the town of Trenton Gibson county Tenn. Twelve months.

7th I then will to my nephew FINIS A. McCORKLE Three hundred Dollars in money 8th I then will to my niece ELIZABETH J. REEVES (wife of WYATT REEVES) Four hundred dollars in money 9th I then will to my niece LATINA M. GREGORY (wife of JOHN GREGORY) four hundred dollars in money - 10th I then will to my nephew W.T. WOODS the tract or parcel of land willed to me by my Father said land lies adjoining the said WM. T. WOOD land on which he now lives and contains by estimation Sixty acres more of less I also will to the said nephew W.T. WOODS one half of my town lot in the Town of Trenton Gibson county Tenn. (after ANDERSON J. McCORKLE has the use of it twelve months) which I hold by deed to me from J. P. THOMAS 11th I then will the other half of the above described house and lot after - after ANDERSON J. McCORKLE has the use of it twelve months) to CORA ALICE daughter of the above named nephew, WM. T. WOODS 12th I then will to niece my MARTHA ANN DOAK wife of W.E. DOAK four hundred dollars in money - 13th I then will to my niece SARAH JANE GREEN (wife of A. GREEN four hundred dollars in money. 14th I then will to my niece SUSAN A. TROUT (wife of WILEY S. TROUT) Four hundred dollars in money, and if there be a remainder of my effects after the above distributions are made as therein specified it is my will that such remainder shall be equally distributed to the above named legatees. I hereby appoint my nephew DAVID P. McCORKLE Esqr. As my Sole Executor to the within last will and testament made and subscribed to by me and my seal affixed thereto in the presence of the subscribing witnesses this 20th day of January A.D. 1869

MARGARET DICKEY (SEAL)

Test
M.R. HENDRICKS
W.H. FRANKLIN

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