Claiborne County, Tennessee
Wills & Estates

Margaret Jones

CLAIBORNE COUNTY, TENNESSEE Will Book, Volume 2

Inventory of the Estate of MARGARET JONES, deceased Personal property includes: Bed and clothing, wheel, crock and coffee pot, churn, saddle, sow and pigs, churn and weaver’s slay, two shoats, calf, cow and calf, mare, two trumpets

The above is all the assets which have come to my hands up to this time, May 3rd 1853.

Charles Campbell, Administrator

Sale of the Estate of MARGARET JONES, deceased Buyers were: Abraham Carmack – bed and bed clothing $8.00

Isaac Carmack – wheel, crock and coffee pot $.50

Daniel Leonard – churn $.25

Levi Carmack – saddle $5.55

John Cloud – sow and pigs $11.60

Nelson Chick – slay 6 hundred $.50

Armstrong Campbell – calf $4.12 ½

Job Crabtree – cow and calf $15.50

James Brown – mare $50.75

James Keen – tin trumpet $.50

Total amount received from sale of the estate was $103.90, which was held on this day in April 1853.

Charles Campbell, Administrator

Settlement with CHARLES CAMPBELL, Administrator of the Estate of MARGARET JONES, deceased Amount of the sales of the personal property $103.90 Paid James Carr’s tax receipt $1.05 Paid George R. Ward’s tax receipt $.80 Paid J. C. Lane’s Deputy Sheriff receipt $.45 Paid Amos Snavely’s receipt $10.00 Paid R. Crabtree’s receipt $20.00 Paid receipt for burial clothing $3.00 Paid clerk’s fee $5.50 Paid W. R. Evans receipt as attorney $5.00 Paid Administrator for his trouble and expenses $10.00

Leaves a balance of $47.60 remaining in the hands of the Administrator, this 10th day of May 1855. Thomas J. Johnson, Clerk