Edmond Hodges
Edmond Hodges farmed on the head waters of Boyds Creek in Sevier County, Tennessee, on a tract of about five hundred acres in the seventh district with more land in the tenth, and he was a man of some substance in a county that did not hold many. He married twice and buried the first wife, and when he sat down on 3 June 1841 to write his will he had children of both marriages, some of them grown with families of their own and seven still under age.
The will is careful and it is fair in a way that was not required of him. He directed the estate divided share and share alike among all the heirs of his body, "male as well as female, half blood as well as whole blood", so that the children of the second marriage stood equal with the children of the first. He counted his widow in as another share, twenty shares in all. He named his seven youngest one at a time and left each of them schooling money, a cow when they came of age or married, an overcoat for the boys and a saddle and a cloak for the girls. He owned people, and the same will ordered them sold at public auction on twelve months' credit to pay for it.
He was dead within five years. His executors were his son Edmond and David McCroskey, and his estate was still being fought over and divided in the courts thirty years later.
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Cite: Heirology, "Edmond Hodges", https://heirology.com/ancestors/edmond-hodges-80f47d.