CLAIBORNE COUNTY, TENNESSEE Will Book, Volume 1

Year’s Provisions to MARY WALKER, Widow of JOSEPH WALKER, deceased 50 barrels of corn, 20 bushels of wheat, 800 lbs of bacon All of the sugar that may be made this year; all the salt and leather one hand All the lard and soap on hand $25.00 cash for coffee, iron, steel, etc.

Given under our hands and seals this 16th day of February 1851.

M. Cunningham, Comm. William Fugate, Comm. John Hill, Comm.

Inventory of the Estate of JOSEPH WALKER, deceased Notes: Obadiah Riley & William Fugate $113.77 John Ritchie $152.75 John Hill & George McNeil $154.50 John Hill $20.00 William Fugate $246.13 William Fugate $3.18 William Fugate $25.00 James & John Ritchie $201.46 James Ritchie $10.00 Abel Kesterson $59.00 John S. Riley & William Fugate $200.00 Jacob Campbell $25.71 Isaac Walker $222.00 Samuel Walker $14.66 Samuel Walker $20.00 Samuel Walker $37.50 Daniel Jones $18.12 Sam Croxdale $29.20 A. D. & R. C. Woodson & William Fugate $30.00 R. C. Woodson & Arthur Spears $132.65 P. Holt & William Riley $26.00 Reese Mise $1.15 C. Y. Rice $9.91 John Sharp & A. Hurst $20.40 Elbridge Campbell $50.00 Jacob Walker $9.81 ½

Cash on hand $45.65

Notes Not Good: William & Montgomery Herrell $7.00 Thomas Wyatt $6.00 William & Montgomery Herrell & Isaac Bartlett $7.00 Josiah Rhotan $30.75

Sale of the Estate of JOSEPH WALKER, deceased Buyers were: Jacob Walker – pair of steelyards $1.25; sow $1.25; lot of books $1.00; fan mill $4.25

Mary Walker – half bushel $.25; cupboard and table $5.50; table and bureau $3.50; clock $2.00; two pair of dog irons and shovel $1.50; looking glass, smoothing iron $1.25; two beds and furniture $5.00; lot of lumber $.50; lot of castings $3.00; pots and hooks $.25; kettle and hooks $.50; lot of cooking vessels $1.00; lot of lumber $.50; plow $.50; nag $12.00; calf $2.00; hire of negro girl $12.00; hire of negro boy $20.00

Martin Branham – barrel of salt $4.95

R. C. Woodson – beef hide $2.70

Elbert Overton – lot of hogs $46.20

William Riley – lot of cattle $20.87; lot of corn $19.75

Elisha Estes – lot of corn $19.50 Moses Jones – lot of corn $20.00

Mordecai Cunningham – two sickles $2.00

Samuel Walker – kettle $2.00

Charles Campbell – bull $6.12 ½

William Fugate – harrow $2.00

William Smith – axe $1.00

Total amount received from sale of the estate was $224.94 ½.

Isaac Walker, Administrator