BURRIS/TARPLEY in Crockett Co., TN
I am looking for info on a G.W. Burris who married Mary S. Tarpley on 01 FEB 1881 in Crockett Co., TN..
Mary was one daughter ofJ.P. Tarpley and Delpha Ann Malinda Tarpley (birth surname not known).
Mary had a sister, Sally S. Tarpley, who married a Blackwell.
G.W. Burris is shown as being a cousin in the household of A.O. Giddens on the 1880 Crockett Co., TN. Census.
The household is shown on that census as:
Giddens, A.O.,WM45Brick mason, TN., TN., TN..
GIDDENS, M.J.,WF35Wife, keeping house, TN., TN., TN..
HOOTEN, A.J.,WM7Cousin,TN., TN., TN..
BURRIS, G.W.,WM19Cousin, Farmer, TN., TN., TN..
J.P. TARPLEY of Crockett Co., TN. had a will probated on April term in 1894.
That will reads as follows:
"I, J. P. TARPLEY of the County of Crockett and State of Tennessee,...make and publish and declare this to be my Last Will and Testament.
To my beloved wife, DELPHA ANN MALINDA TARPLEY, all of my household and kitchen furniture, my horses and wagon, cattle, hogs, farming implements, buggy and harness...during her natural life, and then to go to my daughter MARY S. BURRIS.
My reason for giving all of my personal estate to my Daughter MARY S. BURRIS is that I have given my Daughter SALLY S. BLACKWELL all of my real estate by Deed."
Executor: A.M. HALL
Signed...this the fourteenth day of March, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety Four.
J.P. TARPLEY (X - his mark)
Witnesses:
Jas. W. HALL
W.R. BLAND (? not positive of last name)
E. POWERS
Any information will be greatly appreciated.
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