I LEWIS WARREN being Sound in mind, do will and desire that my son WILLIAM SIMON WARREN shall have half of my tract of land, that I now live on, at my death to have and to hold forever - the fore said land is situated in the State of Tennessee Dyer County and in civil District No 3 - and bounded as follows: Towit Begining at a Stooping Poplar & Elm, JOSEPH SHEARONS W.E. corner in RUTHERFORDs South boundary line: Runs South with said SHEARONS West boundary 80 poles to a Stake & Birch pointers, by POSTONs N.E. corner: Thence West Two Hundred poles to an Elm & Hickory pointer: Thence North Eighty poles to a Stake in a Pond, in RUTHERFORDs line Thence East Two Hundred poles, with said RUTHERFORDs line to the beginning - Containing One Hundred acres, more or less - It is my desire that the line be run North & South through the said tract of land, and my son WILLIAM SIMON have the East portion of it - For him and his heirs, to have and to hold forever - This is all the interest I intend for my won WILLIAM SIMON to have in any of my lands -

This January 20th 1862      LEWIS (X) WARREN