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Wayne County, Tennessee, Court Minutes
Letter of Administration
July 1870, page 29
This day came Joseph G. Berry and moved the court to appoint him administrator of the Estate of Nathaniel Horton, dec'd, and it appearing to the court that the said Nathaniel Horton has died leaving no Last Will and Testament in writing, and that the said Joseph G. Berry is a suitable person for such administration and he having entered into bond in the said sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, conditioned as the law directs, with J. G. Gallaher, Robt P. Cypert and Oscar Love as his securities, which said bond was approved by the court and ordered to be recorded, it is therefore ordered by the court that the said J. G. Berry be appointed the Administrator of the said dec'd's Estate and that he do and perform all things pervaling upon him as said administrator and that Letters issue accordingly whereupon the said Joseph G. Berry came forward and took the necessary oath for his qualification.