Coffee County, Tennessee, Wills, Volume I, 1833-1860

During the Depression, the Works Progress Administration (WPA), Transcriptions Unit, transcribed all of Coffee County, Tennessee Will Books for the years 1833 to 1860. This book contains these original transcriptions. Information in this work include the Name of the Deceased, date of death, dates on court filings and actions, sales of personal property of the deceased, Recorded Wills, Lists of Personal Property and Inventories of estates, the names of Witnesses, Executors, Creditors, Judges, Lawyers, etc., and Notes executed by debtors (including names of individuals). In many instances, the net worth of an individual's estates can be determined by the inventories and court records and notations. This volume is an excellent genealogical source. Paperback, (1936), repr. 2007, 2012, Index, 118 pp.