Isaac MORRELL

                   CEMETERY FROM HOLSTON PASTFINDER MARCH 1989, ALSO FROM SAME ISSUE:
    " WILL OF ISAAC MORRELL, WASHINGTON COUNTY, TENNESSEE SUBMITTED BY MARY C. MORRELL, RTE. 1, BOX 375, PINEY FLATS, TN  37686

IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN.  I, ISAAC MORRELL, OF THE COUNTY OF WASHINGTON, AND THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, BEING OF SOUND MIND AND MEMORY, BUT CONSIDERING THE UNCERTAINTIES OF THIS FRAIL AND TRANSITORY LIFE DO MAKE THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT.  THAT IS IS SAY, FIRST, AFTER ALL MY LAWFUL DEBTS ARE PAID, I GIVE AND BEQUEATH TO MY BELOVED WIFE, SUSANNAH, DURING HER NATURAL LIFE, ALL OF MY ESTATE, BOTH REAL AND PERSONAL, AT HER DEATH, I GIVE AND BEQUEATH TO MY DAUGHTER, ELZIRAH, THE SUM OF FIVE DOLLARS AND TO MY DAUGHTER, MARY, THE LIFE SUM OF FIVE DOLLARS AND TO MY SONS, ELDRIDGE, ISAAC AND JOSEPH, EACH THE LIKE SUM OF FIVE DOLLARS.  TO MY DAUGHTER, CATHERINE, I GIVE AND BEQUEATH MY HORSE, SADDLE, AND BRIDLE.  AND TO MY SON RUFUS, AND MY DAUGHTER, MARTHA, I GIVE AND BEQUEATH ALL THE REMIANING OF MY ESTATE BOTH REAL AND PERSONAL TO BE DIVIDED AS FOLLOWS, MY SAID SON RUFUS IS TO HAVE ___SAY TWO THIRDS OF THE FARM UPON WHICH I AM LIVING CONTAINING ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY ACRES MORE OR LESS AND TO MY DAUGHTER MARTHA, I GIVE AND BEQUEATH THE REMAINING ONE THIRD OF MY PERSONAL EFFECTS AND ALSO THE REMAINING ONE THIRD OF MY REAL ESTATE.  THAT IS TO SAY THE REMAINING ONE THIRD OF THE FARM UPON WHICH I AM NOW LIVING.  THE CONDITIONS OF THIS GIFT TO MY SON RUFUS AND TO MY DAUGHTER MARTHA IS AS FOLLOWS.  THAT THE SAID RUFUS AND THE SAID MARTHA ARE TO REMIAN WITH, SUPPORT AND PROVIDE FOR AND WAIT ON MYSELF AND MY BELOVED WIFE SUSAHHAH DURING OUR NATURAL LIVES BUT IF THE SAID MARTHA SHOULD NOT REMAIN WITH US DURING THE REMAINDER OF OUR NATURAL LIVES, THAN AND IN THAT EVENT THE SAID MARTHA IS TO HAVE ONE HORSE, SADDLE, AND BRIDLE, AND THE SAID RUFUS IS TO HAVE THE REMAINING ONE THIRD OF THE FARM, AND I DO MAKE CONSTITUTE AND APPOINT MY SON, RUFUS, TO BE EXECUTOR OF THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT.  THIS THE THRID DAY OF AUGUST IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY.
                                              ISAAC MORRELL WITNESS
P.H. MOTTERN
D.L. CRUMLEY

THE FOREGOING WILL WAS PRESENTED TO THE COURT FOR PROBATE AT THE NOVEMBER TERM 1871 AND PROVEN BY THE OATHS OF P.J. MOTTERN AND D.L. CRUMLEY THE TWO SUBSCRIBING WITNESSES AND ORDERED TO BE RECORDED.
                                                 J.F. GRISHAM, CLERK

NOTE: ISAAC MORRELL'S PLANTATION WAS LOCATED IN WASHINGTON COUNTY, TN, ON THE HEAD WATERS OF LIMESTONE CREEK, DISTRICT 15. ... ISAAC MORRELL IS GREAT-GREAT-GRANDFATHER AND RUFUS W. MORRELL IS GREAT-GRANDFATHER OF MARY CATHERINE MORRELL AND GENE A. MORRELL."

HOLSTON PASTFINDER SEPT 1988 - GENE A. MORRELL "ACCORDING TO THE SULLIVAN COUNTY CENSUS OF 1850 ISAAC MORRELL WAS A FARMER AND OWNED 1,000 ACRES.  IN 1838 HE TAUGHT SCHOOL IN A BUILDING LOCATED ON THE REUBEN HICKS PLANTATION IN THE COUNTY."