Mary Tennessee Kinnard Crump, widow of John O. Crump and daughter of the late George Kinnard, seeks a division and distribution of her late husband's estate; the estate includes a claim on the estate of her late father. Crump's mother, Catharine Kinnard, survived both her husband and son-in-law. In 1845, Mrs. Kinnard made a settlement with her five children, in which the petitioner and her late husband received two slaves valued at $450. Her husband exchanged these two slaves two years later for a slave named Fanny, alias Ann, who has since had a child. Mary Crump asserts that she is now entitled to Fanny and her child. Claiborne Kinnard, her brother and administrator of her late husband's estate, however, has taken possession of the slaves, insisting that "said estate is entitled in some way to your oratrix's said individual interest, as legatee of said George Kinnard, deceased." She contends that she "has a right to elect on which estate to assert her claim, and she elects to assert claim to the property so divided and sold, against the estate of said John O. Crump." She asks the court to ascertain the proper course of distribution and to order that "the surplus of said estate" be divided and distributed among said owners thereof.
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Repository: Williamson County Courthouse, Franklin, Tennessee
