CLAIBORNE COUNTY, TENNESSEE Will Book, Volume 1

Inventory of the Estate of TABITHA DRUMMONDS, deceased Personal property includes: Silver on hand $320; note on Daniel Drummonds for $31.00; note on Daniel Drummonds for $5.50; note on W. R. Gibson, Z. L. Gibson and T. L. Gibson for $43.00; note on W. R. Gibson for $13.50; note on Spencer Owsley $.50

Sale of the Estate of TABITHA DRUMMONDS, deceased Buyers were: Anderson Drummonds – pair fire tongs $.65; fire shovel $.15; pair fire dogs $1.11; pot rack $1.01; book, cap $.01; coffee mill $.05; set of spoons, two pepper boxes $.38; camphor bottle $.03; dresser $.25; pair hooks $.19; pair hooks $.06 ½; pot $2.65; pair bowls $.16; pot $2.35 ½; pot and lid $.02 ¼; sheet $.39 ½; coverlid $3.86 ¾; ox cart $5.21; bell $.91 ½; loom $3.15; slay $.01; shuttle $.01; flax hatchel $1.50 ¼; six chairs $1.50; meal sieve $.32; small stack oats $1.29; piece of stack wheat $.26

John W. Beauford – churn $.15

John Treece – pot rack $.86; coffee pot $.16 ½; oven and lid $1.02; table $.40; wooden bowl $.12 ½ ; bed, stead and furniture $14.01; coverlid $3.41; coverlid $3.76 ½; slay and loom gears $.01; side saddle $10.01; bunch homespun cotton $.73

Frankey Drummonds – three keelers $.16; churn $.12 ½; 1 ½ cupboard $.25; pen knife $.01; book and ½ lb nails $.25; basin $.31; delf pot $.01; fork and ladle $.10; two cups and three spoons $.01; four vials $.05; spoon $.01; oven, lid and hooks $.51; skillet and lid $.40; pot and hooks $.23; cotton wheel $1.52; chest $.30; sheet $.47; sheet $.29; coverlid $5.01; sow and pigs $2.51 ½; large bee hive $4.13; slay $.01; blanket $.39; blanket $.64; bale of cotton $1.00; bunch home thread $.52; bunch home yarn $.50; pair cards $.03; bread tray $.27 ½; claim of sheep $4.42; tin pan $.16; ten dozen oats $.41; milk crock $.01; two crocks of lard $.03; pile of corn $10.12

Daniel Cupp – two troughs of soap $3.50

Baxter Poor – some salt $1.14

Jefferson Treece – horse $37.89

G. W. Powell – cow and calf $9.37 ½

Vincent Myers – pair hooks $.32 ½

Marcellus Yoakum – candle stand $.02

Stephen Drummonds – basin $1.50; dish $.54; seven cups $.21; set spoons $.35; bottle oil $.06; pot and bowls $2.35; lot knives and forks $.36 ½; sheet $.29; coverlid $4.62 ½; eight head of hogs $10.21; two coffee pots $.01; coverlid $.88; jug $.40; bull $8.96; armchair $.36; hammer $.26; 1 ½ bushels $.31

George Simpson – crock $.10

E. B. Yoakum – wash tub $.57 ½

Preston Sparks – pair candle molds $.05; cow and calf $11.00

Casey Myers – bee hive $1.75

Thomas Ferguson – pail $.12 ½; smoothing iron $.80; set of delf plates $.46; tin bucket $.21; flax wheel $2.01; bed and furniture $18.00; coverlid $3.74; quilt $1.05; sack of wool $3.06; cake sugar $.47

Elijah Jones – washing tub $.16; bee hive $2.72; crout stand $.37 ½; two crout stands $.56

Calvin Sparks – seven pewter plates $3.00; bale of cotton $.91; check reel $.51

Jacob Myers – sheet $.32 ½; three slays $.22

John Cox – pair plow gears and bridle $1.00

Spencer Owsley – set warping tools $1.35

Total amount received from sale of the estate was $239.54 ¾

Settlement with DANIEL DRUMMONDS, Administrator of the Estate of TABITHA DRUMMONDS, deceased Amount returned in the inventory $90.50 Amount of sale of the personal property $239.54 ½ Paid D. C. Bullard tax receipt for 1850 $6.20; tax receipt for 1851 $1.00 Paid H. Graham account $11.72 Paid clerk’s fees $5.00; fees for $.50

Leaves a balance of $310.62 ½ remaining in the hands of the Administratrix, this 18th day of September 1851. Thomas J. Johnson, Clerk

Settlement with DANIEL DRUMMONDS, Administrator of the Estate of TABITHA DRUMMONDS, deceased Amount of former settlement $310.62 Paid Stephen Drummonds receipt $1.00 Paid Anderson Drummonds receipt $1.75 Paid John Keck receipt on a note $3.82 Paid Spencer Owsley receipt $.25 Paid E. T. Ford receipt $.28 Paid P. Sparks receipt for crying sale $.75 Paid V. Myres receipt $.25 Paid clerk’s fee for making and recording this settlement $2.50 Paid Administrator’s charges for their trouble in winding up the estate $15.00

Leaves a balance of $285.02 remaining in the hands of the Administrator, this 15th day of September 1852.

Thomas J. Johnson, Clerk