Lemuel Herrin's Will
Submitted by Marylee KnightPanola County Probate Records
Book B, pages 183-184
State of TX
Panola County
I, Lemuel Herrin do make and ordain this my last will 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 amoung 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.
(Signed) Lemuel Herrin
Test
Abner Herrin
William H. Wyatt
Approved and probated this the 28th day of Sept 1852 Filed 30th Sept 1852
J. Hadley Anderson, Clk