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;
                      
Wm. Taylor; Mill tract of land; Esell Jones; J. F. Awalt

 
 

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