You can obtain a copy of the will from the Sumner County Archives.
Note: My copy is very faded and difficult to read.
In the name of God Amen: I Jeremiah Belote of Sumner County and State of Tennessee. This 12 day of September one thousand one hundred and sixteen being in perfect health and mind . . . to be buried in a decent Christian manner . . .
First
...I give and bequeath unto my beloved brother John Belote the sum of ten dollars . . . John L. (?)
Swaney ten dollars . . . sister Ann Swaney the sum of twenty dollars to be laid out in a _ of her
choice . . . James Stewart sixty dollars to purchase a horse bridle and saddle as soon as he arrives
to
age . . . Peggy Stewart forty dollars to purchase a horse also a _(?)...as soon as she marrys . . . if
the
foresaid James or Peggy should die leaving no heirs of their own body . . . money to be equally
divided amongst my four children, viz, Sally, Jeremiah, John, and Clarissa Ann . . . Mrs. Louisa
Stewart all my plantation tools . . . also to her for her natural life the use of my plantation
whereon
she now lives for the benefit of her and my children . . . I also lend out my negroes Davey and
Cate
for the support of my children . . . should my four above named children die, leaving no heir from
their own body - It is my will and desire that the property . . . be the property of the children of
my
brother and sister . . . two hundred dollars appropriated to the schooling of my sons Jeremiah and
John. Lastly I constitute my father Henry Belote, William Cage and William Smith . . .
Jeremiah Belote
....witnesses
Willie Dickmore (?) Jr.
Thomas Ethelridge
John Phillips
John Bently Jr.
State of Tennessee
Sumner County Court August 1822
The last will and testament of Jeremiah Belote decd was exhibited in Open Court . . .