Evelin McMurry, mother of the late Archibald McMurry, seeks to have her son's will "set up and carried out." She informs the court that her son, an infantry volunteer, wrote out his will "previous to his leaving ... about the 25th day of July 1861." The petitioner purports that the "said Archy in said will gave all his property of every kind and description to his mother, which is your Oratrix" and that she "was to have it to dispose of as she pleased." McMurry now asserts that the clerk of court has lost the will and that he "has searched through all his papers and in his office but cannot find the said will anywhere." Noting that her son left ten slaves and three head of horses "as all the property he had," McMurry prays that "what has been set forth in this bill as the will of Archibald McMurry be declared the will of ... said ... Archibald McMurry deceased and be set up and carried out as his will." The petitioner also requests that her son's brothers and sisters "of the half blood" be made defendants and that an administrator "be appointed to wind up said estate."
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Repository: Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee
