3.1.2.1.13. Transcription

Gibson County, Tennessee
County Court Clerk Minutes
Volume “F”, page: 131

Gibson County Court
2nd day May Term 1855
State of Tennessee

Be it remembered that on this day court met from start to adjournment- present & holding said court the worshipped Joseph D Dribrell, chairman, B Crawford & David Thomason Esquires, Justices of the peace duly commissioned to hold said court James M Hess, Sheriff & EW Raines clerk When the following proceedings were had to wit.

A paper writing purporting to be the Last will and Testament of Thomas E. Hale Deceased & the execution hand writing of Richard B Parker and George W Smith.  The subscribing witness thereto was duly proven in open court by the oath of H.T. Jackson they Living out of the State.

It was therefore ordered by the court that the same be admitted to record as the last will and Testament of Thos. E. Hale, Dec’d and there upon Thos Walker the Executor named in said will entered into bond in the sum of Twenty Thousand Dollars with Jacob Mathis & HT Jackson his securities which bond was duly acknowledged in open court Received by the court & ordered to be recorded and thereinupon the said Walker Took the oath prescribed by Law & the court took order that Letters Testamentary issue.

	Transcription note: No changes were made in the spelling or punctuation of the original document.  Richard B. Parker and George W. Smith were residents of Halifax County, NC.  Thos E. Hale apparently had returned to Halifax Co., NC to transact family business, when he became ill and died.  Thomas E. Hale did not have a tombstone along with his wife, mother and other Hales buried at Mt. Zion Methodist Church cemetery in Gibson Co., TN.  It is assumed that he was buried in Halifax Co., NC.

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