THE LAST WILL OF LEMUEL HERRIN

Panola County Probate Records Book B, pp 183-184 State of Texas

I, Lemuel Herrin, do make and ordain this my last will Panola County and testament in manner and form following.

1st, I will all my Estate both real and personal with all my negroes, my household and kitchen furniture to my wife, Mary Herrin for her lifetime and at her death an equal division among all my children. I wish them to divide things after having everything valued. The one that gets first choice, the second time gets the last and so on till all is disposed of.

2nd I nominate and approve Gresham Herrin and William M. Herrin, my sons, executors to this my last will without giving security and to furnish Tabitha Pearce a home of one hundred and fifty acres of land with a house as she is a widow and without a home furnished.

Now to comply with this request leaving this my last will and testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand the 16th day of July 1850. s/ Lemuel Herrin Test Abner Herrin William H. Wyatt

Approved and probated this the 28th day Sept. 1852...Filed 30th Sept 1852 J. Hadley Anderson Clk

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