LAST WILL & TESTAMENT OF WILLIAM G. ANDERSON [Typed Verbatim]

Know ye to whom it may Concern that I William G. Anderson on the 27th day of September one Thousand eight hundred and seventy three in the County of Jackson State of Tennessee beeing in my rite mind planter do make and publish my last Will and Testament first I direct that my Body bee Decently intered in a manner suitable to my condition In life as to my worldly Estate as it hath pleased god to Entrust me with I dispose of the same as follows First I will an bequeath to my Belovd Wife Sarah H. Anderson All my landed Estate during her natural life.

2 my property to be sold to pay my debts except my colt I will an bequeath to my grand son William H. Anderson

3 I will an bequeth to my wife S. H. Anderson so mutch of the money that my son John S. Anderson owes me for the land I sold him as She may need in her life time and the rest to be devided eqill among my children if my son John S. Anderson fails to pay for the land it to be sold at my beloved wife Sarah H. Anderson death by My administrator & I will an bequeath an apoint an make as my administrators & executors to attend to my affairs Allen Deatherage & N. K. Anderson my son & the above Administrators to pay all my debts

5th I also Will & Bequeath that at my wife death that my land be sold to the hiest bider & the money equally divided amongst my beloved children or heirs & that my beloved son Noah H. Anderson to take sepecial care of my wife his mother her lifetime for which I W. G. Anderson his father have compensated him & i will that my son N. K. Anderson does the best he can with my gran son Horace W. Anderson & try to get him to mind him and lern him to work and school him the best he can.

As before said at my wifes death all my land & property to bee sold & eqaly devided amongst my children except my son J. S. Anderson & my daughter Mary E. Cooper provided they pay for the land I sold them the rest of the children to first get as mutch asigned them in the land I sold them if they do not pay for the land it falls back to the estate & sold by my administrators & the would devided eqaly amongst all the children & I will & beqeath that my Administrators get an order or decree from the County Court to sell my land & property after my wifes death

I say there shall bee no divission in my estate until the death of my Beloved wife Sarah H. Anderson.

Signed dated an published in the presence of us who here has subscribed in the presence of the Testator & each other. William G. Anderson {Seal}

Wit: Allen Deatherage, Leander T. Smith, W. C. Mainard