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ROBERT BRYSON WILL 1897  ------ transcribed by:  Billie Nichols Bennett 09-03-2005
wb-6-36 TSLA Roll #27 

BRYSON, Robert 
To 
Last Will & Testament 
I, Robert Bryson of the County of Cannon and State of Tennessee, do hereby make and 
publish this my last Will & Testament herby revoking and making void any and all Wills 
by me heretofore at any time made. 

1st - It is my Will that my funeral Expenses and all my first debts be paid as soon 
after my death as practical out of any monies that I may die Seized or possed of or that
may first come into the hands of my Executor. 

2nd - It is my Will and I do bequeath to my beloved daughter Manda Ann Greer my entire 
interest consisting of one half of the tract of land on which I now live lying in the 
14th Civil District of County & State afore said containing about one hundred and ninty 
acres more or less. Bounded north by J.C. Leech & Jno. Peton, South by Dogger Leach & 
Jim Bryson, East by J.C. Leach & R.B. Brandon, and West by J.C. Diggin. The other half 
interest in said described tract of land I deeded to J.H. Dickins on a compromise of a 
lawsuit between us. 

3rd - It is my Will and I so desire that any and all other property that I may die seized 
or posessed or posesseeie of to be equally divided between the balance of my Children then 
living or to the children of any that may be dead. 

4th - I hereby nominate and appoint J.J. Greer & W.B. Bryson Executors of this my last 
Will & Testament. 

This Nov. 30th 1894 
Robert Bryson 

Attest to mark 
D.B. Vance 

Witness to Will 
D.B. Vance 
J.D. Summar 


State of Tennessee
Cannon County
Personally came J.D. Summar one of the subscribing witnesses to the within
paper writing purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Robert Bryson decd.
whose signing first sworn deposed and said that he was acquainted with
Robert Bryson the testator during his natural lifetime and that he acknowledged
the Same to be his act and Deed on the day that it bears the date and that he
witnessed the same at the request of the Testator.

When the Court was pleased to admit the same to be probated as the Last Will &
Testament of Robert Bryson decd. and ordered the same to be recorded and filed
in the office of the Clk. of this Court.
D.B. Vance

Witness to Will
D.B. Vance
J.D. Summar

State of Tennessee
Cannon County
Personally came J.D. Summar one of the subscribing witnesses to the within
paper writing purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Robert Bryson decd.
whose signing first sworn deposed and said that he was acquainted with
Robert Bryson the testator during his natural lifetime and that he acknowledged
the Same to be his act and Deed on the day that it bears the date and that he
witnessed the same at the request of the Testator.

When the Court was pleased to admit the same to be probated as the Last Will &
Testament of Robert Bryson decd. and ordered the same to be recorded and filed
in the office of the Clk. of this Court.

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