CLAIBORNE COUNTY, TENNESSEE Will Book, Volume 2

Inventory of the Estate of JOHN S. RILEY, deceased Personal property includes: Cash found on hand $90.00 Note on Henry Croxdale $7.50 Balance on note on Henry Mahon $163.00 Note on Moses and Lewis Jones $21.47 Note on Abel Kesterson $40.00

Sale of the Estate of JOHN S. RILEY, deceased Buyers were: Lizzy Riley – lot of furniture $5.00; lot of furniture $5.00; lot kitchen furniture $2.00; pair steelyards $.25; mare $10.00; horse $10.00; wheel and reel $.25; yoke oxen, log chain and cart $10.00; two small steers $5.00; calf $.50; two sows and 18 pigs $8.00; scythe and cradle, two mowing scythes $1.00; lot gears $.25; 20 sheep $8.00; two kettles $2.00; lot old plows $.50; eight sheep $8.25; four head cattle $25.00

William Riley – mare $17.00; four steers $22.76; four steers $17.50

R. C. Woodson – colt $40.00; ten head hogs 1st choice $52.65; ten hogs 2nd choice $41.60; ten hogs 3rd choice $34.21; remainder of hogs $68.24

Obadiah Riley – four steers $38.00

William Parkey – bell $2.42

David Mahon – cow and calf $14.00

William Fugate, Administrator

Year’s Provisions to Widow of JOHN S. RILEY, deceased All the bacon, lard and soap on hand 12 of the choice hogs, one beef cow $50.00 out of the proceeds of the sale for sugar, coffee and leather $22.50 for wheat and including the old crop $37.50 to buy corn to fatten hogs All of the rent corn on the farm $12.50 to buy corn for table use $2.50 for table use All the wool on hand

All the above money to be paid out of the proceeds of the sale. Given under our hands this 11th day of August 1851. Isom Croxdale, Comm. Stokely R. Lanham, Comm. John Hill, Comm.

Thomas J. Johnson, Clerk Settlement with LOUISA COLEMAN, Formerly LOUISA RILEY, Guardian of Minor Heirs of JOHN S. RILEY, deceased Hire of negro boy named Armstead $19.20, it being the four fifths of four months hire at $6.00 per month Interest on the above amount $1.10 ½ Rents of the land belonging to the minors $200.00 Received four-fifths of the boy Armstead for year ending 1st January 1853 $60.00 Interest on the above amount $16.77 Rent of the land from 1st of January 1853 to 1st January 1854 $200.00 Four-fifths of the hire of boy Armstead at $80.00 per year $64.00 Interest upon the above amount $2.80 Hire of boy Armstead for one moth $6.66 2/3 Paid clerk’s fee for guardian bond $.75 Paid taxes for the years 1851, 1852 and 1853 $17.74 Paid clerk’s fees $2.50

Leaves a balance of $549.54 ½ remaining in the hands of the Guardian, this 2nd day of May 1855.

Thomas J. Johnson, Clerk