from a book called: Weakley County Will & Record Book, 1828-1842, pp 11-13 Tennessee copied from SLC Family History Library:  State of Tennesee, Weakley County, Court of  Pleas  and Quarter Sessions July Term, 1833. 

There was the due execution of the foregoing will freely given in said court by the oaths of John.......... & Vincent .........., the subscribing witnesses and ordered to be recorded.  Wm.  H. Johnson, Clk.

 Will of Stephen Grooms, pp. 135-136 State of Tennessee, Weakley County.

 In the name of God, Amen.  Taking into consideration the shortness of life and the certainty of death also being much debilitated in body yetof sound mind think fit for the benefit of my creditors also my  wife and surviving children to make this as my last will and testament. 

1st.  I would bequeath my soul unto God who gave it me. 

2nd.  I do constitute and appoint Brite Grooms as my lawful executor to attend to the said
annexed. 

3rd.  I further order that one hundred acres of my land whereon I now live shall  be laid off on the East boundary of the same by running a north and south line through the center of said tract and immediately after my decease my said executor shall be authorized to advertise and sell the same for ready money for the purpose of paying certain judgments and exectors that are now and will be due against my said estate and he is hereby authorized in as full and ample manner as I myself would be to make the purchaser a title in fee simple.

4th.   I do further will that my said executor shall so manage all the rest of my said estate either in goods or chattels, land or tenaments that he shall pay all my just debts as the law directs and whatever there may be left of the effects of said estate I do bequeath unto my beloved wife Winiford for to enable her to support and raise our children during her natural life or  widowhood and if there be at her death or marriage, the same shall be equally divided amongst all our children. 

5th.  I do further will that my said wife, Winiford, be and is hereby vested with full authority at any time she may think fit to sell and make a title in fee simple to the remaining hundred acres of land whereon I now live and the effects to be appropriated as above. Given under my hand and seal this the 3rd May, 1833.
   Stephen H. Grooms (Seal) 

 Test. Moses T. Spann & David Redick 

  Submitted by: Eileen Gonzalez