SAMUEL FIELDER
Last Will & Testament
Proven and set up at the
July Court 1856

I SAMUEL FIELDER being of sound and disposing mind and memory, but of feeble health do make and constitute this my last will and Testament utterly revoking all others.

In the first place it is my will and desire that when it pleases God to take me hence that my Executors hereinafter named see that I am buried in a desent Christian like manner and that all of my just debts if any be paid. In the second place I wish it to be understood that on the 7th day of January 1815 I did advance in property to my daughter ELIZABETH BROWN which will make her equal in amount to those of my other children which I shall provide for in this will, and will exclude her from any share whatever in this my last will and testament. I also did advance in property to my son BENJAMINE T. FIELDER on the 14th day of Febry 1815 which will make him equeal in amount to those of my other children which I shall provide for in this will and will exclude him from any share whatever in this my last will and testament.

In the third place I give and bequeath unto my children SARAH ADAMS, LEONARD S. FIELDER, MARGARET NICHOLSON, JOHN I. FIELDER, and JANE EDWARDS, all of the estate which I may have at my death after the payment of my debts equally to be divided among them my last named and aforesaid children.

I here by constitute GEORGE R. EDWARDS and SAMUEL C. FIELDER Executors of this my last will and testament.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 1st day of October 1851.

SAMUEL FIELDER (Seal)

Witnesses:
W. B. TROWER
W. H. HARALSON

State of Missouri)
County of Pike)

February 18th, 1854

Be it remembered that on this Eighteenth day of February 1854 WESLEY TROWER and WILLIAM H. HARRISON the subscribing witnesses to the within Will appeared before me, THOMAS J. C. FAYG judge of the Probate Court for said County of Pike and being duly sworn by me on their oaths say that they saw the within named Testator sign the within instrument of writing which he published as his last will and testament. That said Testator was at the time of sound mind and over the age of Twenty one years and that these deponents attested said will as witnesses there to by subscribing their names to the same in the presence and at the request of said Testator and in the presence of each other.

WESLEY B. TROWER
W. H. HARALSON

State of Tennessee)
Dyer County Court)

July Term 1856

This day a paper writing purporting to the Last will & testament of Samuel Feilder deceased, was produced here in open Court and duly proven by the oaths of WESLEY B. TROWER & W. H. HARALSON subscribing witnesses there to who testified that they are personally aquainted with the Testator that he signed and published the last will & testament in their presence for the purpose therein set forth and requested them specially to bear witness thereto that they signed it in his presence and at his request and that he was of sound and disposing memory at the time of executing said will.

It is therefore ordered by the court that the said paper writing be set up as the last will and testament of the said SAM'L FIELDER deceased, and that the same be recorded.

R. M. TARRANT Clerk

Samuel Fielder was born 22 Oct 1760 in VA, died 13 Jan 1854, and is buried in the Edwards Cemetery in Crockett Co., TN. He was living with his daughter Jane Edwards and her family in Pike Co., MO, when the 1850 census was taken