Richard BASKERVILLE b. 1840 , Sumner, Tennessee, USA d. Abt Dec 1887 , , Tennessee, USA: An Armstrong & A Heffernan

1840 - Abt 1887 (47 years)

Name	Richard BASKERVILLE [1]
Birth	1840	, Sumner, Tennessee, USA [2]
Gender	Male
Census	19 Jun 1880	, Sumner, Tennessee, USA
ED 122, pg 24 (259B)
District 16 Elizabeth Bradley Self Female 45 Tennessee Sarah Bradley Dau Female 21 Tennessee Victoria Bradley Dau Female 18 Tennessee Richard Baskerville Brother Male 40 Tennessee Richard is farming.
Will	7 Dec 1881	, Sumner, Tennessee, USA
Sumner County Tennessee, Will Book Vol. 4, page 226
Signed 7-Dec-1881 Probated Dec 1887 State of Tennessee - County of Sumner In the name of God Amen. I Richard Baskerville being this day in a bad state of health, but bllessed(sic) with a sound mind and good memory and knowing that I more then likely must shortly die, and as touching my temporal property which it has pleased God to bless me with. I on this the 7th day of December A.D. ___? give and bequeath my real and personal effects as follows: 1st. Now I therefore for the affection, favor and care shown me by my Brother Abner Baskerville give and bequeath unto him my bay mare, all my notes and accounts, which are, one note on W.B. Duval for forty five dollars, Due Oct. 1st., 1881, one note on M.R. Stovall, for sixty two dollars due June 1st., 1876. One note on B.P. Dye, for Two hundred dollars with a credit of seventy dollars, due the 9th. day of August 1878, also one note on Isaac M. Ashlock, for thirty dollars, due 1st. day of November 1881. And one account on W.E. Bernard, for twenty dollars, security money paid W.C. Gibson, Aug. 13th., 1878. 2nd. I give my brother Abner Baskerville, one tract of land lying in the 16th. Civil District of the aforesaid County and State bounded on the North by W.S. Payne, on the West by Mrs. Doria Blackburn, South and East by the lands of the O.H. Duval heirs, containing fourteen acres more or less. 3rd. I give to my brother Abner (pg 227) Baskerville, my undivided interest in the Dower of my Stepmother Mrs. Jane Baskerville, deceased, situated in the 16th. civil Dist. of the aforesaid County and State, with a request that he give it to one of his boys that may hereafter choose to follow the occupation of a farmer. 4th. If in the above enumeration of my effects, I have failed to state or put in anything of value belonging to my estate either personal or real. I hereby give and bequeath the same when found to my brother Abner Baskerville. 5th. For the favor care and affection shown me by my brother Abner Baskerville it is my desire and wish and I hereby relinquish my claims or accounts I have against him. 6th. My Executor will pay my burial expenses and indebtedness of my estate out of the first proceeds collected on the notes accounts and sale of said fourteen acres of land, and it is further my desire that said business be wound up as soon as practical by my Executor. 7th. Futhermore [sic] if during the remainder of my natural life I for my own comfort and support should need the proceeds of any of these my effects, named or not named, real or personally. I grant my brother Abner Baskerville, the priviledge [sic] to act for me in the disposition of the same for my use and benefit. I appoint my brother Abner Baskerville, Executor, of this my last Will and Testament, and I do hereby disannuls all or any other Will, and pronounce this my last Will and Testament. In witness thereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused my seal to be affixed, on the day and date above mentioned. his (signed) Richard x Baskerville mark Signed in the presence of Henry McDowell Alfred Hammond W.T. McGlothlin (pg 228) State of Tennessee Sumner County Court December Term 1887 The last Will and Testament of Richard Baskerville, deceased, was this day presented in open Court for probate, and was duly proven by the oath of Alfred Hammons [sic], one of the subscribing witnesses thereto, which is received by the Court, and ordered to be recorded: Abner Baskerville, the Executor named in the Will, appeared in open Court and accepted the execution of the same. And thereupon the said Abner Baskerville, together with his surities [sic], Alfred Hammons [sic], and William Barnard, appeared in open Court, and entered into and acknowledged their bond, to the State of Tennessee, in the penal sum of Five Hundred Dollars conditioned as the law requires and said Abner Baskerville, as Executor aforesaid, was duly qualified. Copy Test. OI. H. Foster Clerk
Probate	Dec 1887	, Sumner, Tennessee, USA
Sumner County Tennessee, Will Book Vol. 4, page 226
Death	Abt Dec 1887	, , Tennessee, USA
Person ID	I16831	An Armstrong & A Heffernan
Last Modified	26 Apr 2020

Father	Thomas B BASKERVILLE, b. 1809, , , Tennessee, USA d. 1 Feb 1867, , Sumner, Tennessee, USA (Age 58 years)
Mother	Eliza BALL, b. 1 May 1817, , , Tennessee, USA d. 20 Aug 1853, , Sumner, Tennessee, USA (Age 36 years)
Marriage	27 Oct 1834	, Sumner, Tennessee, USA [3, 4]
Family ID	F5853	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

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	Birth - 1840 - , Sumner, Tennessee, USA
	Census - ED 122, pg 24 (259B) - 19 Jun 1880 - , Sumner, Tennessee, USA
	Will - Sumner County Tennessee, Will Book Vol. 4, page 226 - 7 Dec 1881 - , Sumner, Tennessee, USA
	Probate - Sumner County Tennessee, Will Book Vol. 4, page 226 - Dec 1887 - , Sumner, Tennessee, USA
	Death - Abt Dec 1887 - , , Tennessee, USA

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Notes
Richard's will leaves everything to his brother so it doesn't look like he ever married.

Sources

[S28] 1850 Sumner, TN, pg 458 (229B), d/f #67/37.
Richard Baskerville
[S28] 1850 Sumner, TN, pg 458 (229B), d/f #67/37.
age 10, Tennessee
[S545] Carpenter, Linda and Barnes, Jan (compilers), Sumner Co, TN Marriages, (Sumner County, Tennessee Genealogists Companion), Through 1850, Grooms - Ba.
Baskerville, Thomas B. to Ball, Eliza on 27 October 1834
[S1328] Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002, (FamilySearch.org), Baskerville, Thomas B.
to Eliza Ball,. 27 Oct 1834, Sumner County