Sumner County, TN Lawsuit #10691
From the Loose Records of Sumner Co, TN
Cartwright, David vs. Walton, Josiah
Submitted by Nathan Knight at southernborn@@mindspring.com
DAVID CARTWRIGHT vs. JOSIAH WALTON, 1843
(STROTHER, COTTON, ORR, contains copy of will of THOMAS COTTON)

Source: Microfilm reel #10691, page #1672 through #1698

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To thine the said MARY CRIER", & etc. & "SARAH COTTON to thine and their heirs forever." Said Testator in said will makes also the following special bequest, "I give and bequeath to my two daughters, LETHA COTTON and SARAH COTTON each of them the sum of one hundred & thirty three dollars and a third in some kind of property that is most convenient to pay at that time."
Your orator would show that PRISCILLA COTTON departed this life about the first of November 1843 (the exact day not known) [____] long after the "coming of SANDERS COTTON to the age of twenty years" [ALEXANDER "ALEXANDER" SANDERS COTTON was born 30 October l791 - (nk)] - that your orator is informed and believes that the legacies given under said will were due and ordered to be paid at the death of PRISCILLA COTTON - that SARAH COTTON one of the legatees in the general legacy to the "thine children and also of the special legacy to LETHA & SARAH COTTON" she was afterwards married to _____ STROTHER and of him [be] came the mother of the following children NANCY, ELIZABETH, JOHN, WILLIAM, GEORGE, NOAH, PATSY, and THOMAS W. STROTHER the present defendant -- that SARAH COTTON afterwards SARAH STROTHER deceased about 16 years since and _____ STROTHER her husband about 14 years since, neither nor both of them having made any disposition of the interest of the Estate of SARAH COTTON under the Will of her Father THOMAS COTTON in.....
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