JAMES G. TINSLEY
Last Will and Testament
Proven and set up
at Febrary Court 1861
Recorded Febry. 7, 1861

In the Name of God - Amen.

I JAMES G. TINSLEY of the County of Dyer, State of Tennessee being sound in mind but frail in body do here by make this my last will and testament.

First, I give my soul to God who gave it and my body to its Mother Earth. I desire my body to have desent intement and after my funeral and burial expenses and just debts are paid, I constitute and appoint my beloved wife FRANCES MASON TINSLEY my Executrix and Guardian for my children with out giving bond &c and I desire after the payment of my just debts for my said wife to have full possession & right to my land, notes and any other property I may leave for her benefit and to raise and school my children, I bequeath property & effects to my said wife during her natural life or widowhood also giving her the power to sell my land for her & childrens benefit provided it may be deemed best for their interest, and with the money to purchase other land for a home for my wife and children.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 21st day of September 1860.

JAMES G. TINSLEY (Seal)

Witnesses:
THOS. NASH
THOMAS SHELTON

State of Tennessee
Dyer County Court

January Term 1861

This day a paper writing purporting to be the last will and testament of JAMES G. TINSLEY deceased, was produced here in open Court and proved by the oath of THOMAS SHELTON, one of the subscribing witnesses there to - who being duly sworn in open Court, depose and say: That he was personally acquainted with the deceased TINSLEY that he Signed and published said paper writing as and for his last will and Testament in presence of both witnesses, that the witnesses both signed the Same at the testators request, in his presence and in presence of each other - and that the said JAMES G. TINSLEY was then of Sound mind and desposing memory.

Attest. WILLIAM M. WATKINS clerk.

State of Tennessee Dyer County Court
February Term 1861

This day THOMAS NASH one of the subscribing witnesses to the will of J. G. TINSLEY dec'd came here into open court, and being first duly sworn depose and Says: That he was acquainted with the Testator an dthat he signed sealed and acknowledged said will in his presence for the purposes there in contained and that he was of Sound mind and memory - And that he signed it as witness in his presence and in the presence of THOMAS SHELTON, the other subscribing witness there to, and at the request of the testator.

It is therefore ordered by the court that the Same be set up and established as the last will and Testament of said J. G. TINSLEY and recorded.