| Testator:
Jesse F. Brown |
| Will date:
15 January 1870 |
| Probate date:
_____________ |
| Rec:
WB 1808-1876, p. 454-456, Franklin Co., TN |
| Wife:
Mahala Lucinda Brown |
| Children:
Martha Susan Awalt Seleta Emeline Stafford America Jane Brasier Nancy Overby – married Robert A. Overby |
| Others:
William Alexander Brown – son of James Robert Brown, dec’d James Robert Brown – son of James Robert Brown, dec’d |
| Appoints Robert A. Overby as guardian of the above, allows their mother to live on demised property and provides that the children may be raised “out of my estate.” |
| James Wade Smith – grandson Thomas Franklin Smith – grandson Andrew Smith – grandson |
| Executor: Robert A. Overbey (who married my daughter, Nancy) |
| Witnesses:
Daniel Laster John Brown James Shasture |
| Other: Wife allowed a dowery interest, terminable if she allows any of the children to live with her. |
|
ames Brown’s house; Anderson Branch; |