Will of Mary Hagins Baxter, mother of Matilda Baxter Kerr

State of South Carolina, York District
Be it known that I, Mary Baxter of the State and District aforesaid, do dispose of my possessions in the following manner:

1st I give to my daughters Fanny and Elizabeth the mansion house in which I now live with all the improvements connected with it provided that improvements are embraced by fifty acres of the south and of the tract of land on which I now reside, which fifty acres I give to said Fanny and Elizabeth; also, I give to them the negro man called April about 36 years of age – share and share alike in the whole of the above specified property. In the event of the death of either of them, the said Fanny & Elizabeth, her interest in the said land and negro man, to be transferred to my son Andrew & daughter Matilda, share and share alike should said Andrew not be alive at the time of the death of said Fanny or Elizabeth; but should said Andrew be alive at said time, then he shall have discretionary power, as to the quantity and quality of said transferred interest, which he should take or receive, the remainder of it to go to the said Matilda. And I wish it to be definitely understood, that I wish Andrew and Matilda, and them only, to have Fanny’s and Elizabeth’s interest in said land and negro.

2nd I give to my son Andrew the remainder of the tract of land on which I now live, after the fifty acres, which I have given to Fanny and Elizabeth, shall have been taken from it by a line running due east & west; I also give him the negro boy named Leroy about 7 or 8 years old.

3rd I give to my grandchild, Thomas Simpson, one bed & furniture, it being a common family bed; and I require my daughters Fanny & Elizabeth to pay to said Thomas, one hundred dollars in money.

4th I give to Violet, my daughter-in-law, one sorrel horse.
The remainder of my property, at my death not herein disposed of, is to be sold publicly, and the proceeds thereof, together with all the money, notes & accounting, to be divided among my children, Margaret Garrison, Cynthia Reeves, Mary Webb, Sarah Parham, Mathilda Kerr, and my grandson, the above named Thomas Simpson, share & share alike, deducting from the whole what may be necessary to pay my just debts.

I appoint my son Andrew Baxter my sole Executor of this my last Will & Testament; and I do hereby revoke all my former Wills & Testaments
In witness who of I hereunto affix my hand and seal this fifth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and thirty-five.
Done in the presence of
William Faris
Josiah Harris
James

Page 2 of will of Mary Baxter, mother of Matilda Baxter Kerr

State of South Carolina, York District
Be it known that I, Mary Baxter of the State and District aforesaid, do dispose of my possessions in the following manner:

1st I give to my daughters Fanny and Elizabeth the mansion house in which I now live with all the improvements connected with it provided that improvements are embraced by fifty acres of the south and of the tract of land on which I now reside, which fifty acres I give to said Fanny and Elizabeth; also, I give to them the negro man called April about 36 years of age – share and share alike in the whole of the above specified property. In the event of the death of either of them, the said Fanny & Elizabeth, her interest in the said land and negro man, to be transferred to my son Andrew & daughter Matilda, share and share alike should said Andrew not be alive at the time of the death of said Fanny or Elizabeth; but should said Andrew be alive at said time, then he shall have discretionary power, as to the quantity and quality of said transferred interest, which he should take or receive, the remainder of it to go to the said Matilda. And I wish it to be definitely understood, that I wish Andrew and Matilda, and them only, to have Fanny’s and Elizabeth’s interest in said land and negro.

2nd I give to my son Andrew the remainder of the tract of land on which I now live, after the fifty acres, which I have given to Fanny and Elizabeth, shall have been taken from it by a line running due east & west; I also give him the negro boy named Leroy about 7 or 8 years old.

3rd I give to my grandchild, Thomas Simpson, one bed & furniture, it being a common family bed; and I require my daughters Fanny & Elizabeth to pay to said Thomas, one hundred dollars in money.

4th I give to Violet, my daughter-in-law, one sorrel horse.
The remainder of my property, at my death not herein disposed of, is to be sold publicly, and the proceeds thereof, together with all the money, notes & accounting, to be divided among my children, Margaret Garrison, Cynthia Reeves, Mary Webb, Sarah Parham, Mathilda Kerr, and my grandson, the above named Thomas Simpson, share & share alike, deducting from the whole what may be necessary to pay my just debts.

I appoint my son Andrew Baxter my sole Executor of this my last Will & Testament; and I do hereby revoke all my former Wills & Testaments
In witness who of I hereunto affix my hand and seal this fifth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and thirty-five.
Done in the presence of
William Faris
Josiah Harris
James

Biographical and Historical Memoirs Of Southern Arkansas 1890 Chapter 32 Drew County

Matilda (Baxter) Kerr was married to Andrew Kerr.

They were natives of South Carolina. In 1844 they emigrated to Tennessee, and located in McNairy County, where the father (Andrew Kerr)died in 1848. In 1844 her husband, Andrew, died. His wife "Matilda (Baxter) Kerr died in Monticello in 1874.