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I, Sitha Boots of Franklin County do hereby make my last will & testament in manner and form following that is to say, After the payment of just debts and funeral expenses, I give to the

children of James B. Gatewood and Catherine Gatewood the wife of said, James B. Gatewood, all my right and title to 32 acres of land which is part of the land that J. B. Gatewood now

lives on which to be equally divided between said children. And lastly, I do hereby constitute and appoint my friend J. B. Gatewood, executor of this my last will and testament. In witness

whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 11th day of March 1862.

Sitha Boots

Attest:

James Bratton

James B. Gatewood

Franklin County Court, May Term 1862

A writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Sitha Boots was produced in Court and proved by the oaths of James Bratton and James B. Gatewood, subscribing witnesses

thereto and ordered to be recorded. Whereupon the same is truly recorded in my office.

A. H. Rennick, CFCC

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