Individual Details

Marriage

Groom: Carothers, James Bride: Penelope H. Barfield
Date of Bond: Sept. 30,1818
(Note: no offical listed) Bondsman: J.L. McEwen
Williamson Co TN Marriages Book 1800-1900

Will

Will of James Carothers

He bequeathed slaves to his wife, five sons and three daughters.

Wife: 1/3 in value of the tract land upon which I now reside to be solaid offas to include the dwelling house, kitchen, barn and spring.Also livestock, his barouche, farming tools and implements includinghis wheat fan, thresher, reaper and mower and his household andkitchen furniture.

Son: John L. -- two tracts of land, one containing 312 acres and theother containing 55 acres.

Son: Wiley B. -- the land "on which he now resides known as the HenryBrown tract", but the acreage was not recorded.

Son: Thomas J. -- 350 acres of the home tract.

Son: John N. - the balance of the tract of land upon which I nowreside not herein given to my son Thomas J.

Grandchildren: Laura and Nancy Crutcher - furniture which they wouldget when they became of age or got married. He made other provisionsfor them in his Will, but his real concern for the two girls wasexpressed in a few words: "I enjoin it on my wife and children tofurnish among themselves a good and kind home for my saidgrandchildren during the time they may be unmarried or underage...."

Family graveyard - to his children and their heirs forever 1/2 of oneacre of the tract of land he was giving to his son Thomas J. There was already a family graveyard on this tract and he was dedicating itas the burial place for his family and descendants.

Codicil: (same day he wrote his Will) - Slaves left to his minorchildre, Elizabeth N. and John N.

2nd Codicil: 6 Feb. 1860 (after the death of his son James Louis who died 26 Jan. 1860) - all the property he had given to James Louis inhis Will would go into the residue of the estate.

3rd Codicil: 10 Feb 1865 - to his grandchildren, Laura and Nancy Crutcher, two tracts of land. Next - all the property given in his Will to Thomas J. and Margaret H. separately would be given to them jointly and that the same would be divided equally between them. He made a similar provision for Elizabeth N. and John N.

4th codicil: 10 Feb 1865 - on that day, he had sold the land bequeathed to his son Thomas J. and that he revoked so much of his Will and codicils that gave Thomas J. "any interest or share of any part or parcel of my land". Next - wife Pamelia was to possess the land bequeathed to his children John N. and Elizabeth N. until they attained the age of 25 and 21, respectively.