Hill v. Maloney

In the year 1881, W. C. Maloney, sixty-nine years of age, was a resident of Greene county, Tenn.; he was a man of wealth, which consisted of farming land, mill property, town lots, and much personal property, represented by bills and notes, .livestock, et cetera. He was a married man and the father of ten children; three of these children were dead in the year 1881, and the date of the death of two others is not shown, but they died without issue and they may be eliminated from this controversy. Of the four deceased children only one, Sarah Maloney Johnson, left surviving issue, a child by…