Franklin County
Pages 119-120
On the 25th day of December AD 1850 was filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court aforesaid for said County of Franklin the following bill of appraisement of the personal property belonging to the estate of said deceased [Zachariah Cooksey Jun.] to wit:
| 1 horse | 20.00 |
| 10 sheep | 5.00 |
| 1 muly cow | 9.00 |
| 1 horned cow | 12.00 |
| 1 heifer | 4.00 |
| 8 head of hogs | 16.00 |
| 1 shoat | .50 |
| 16 pigs | 4.00 |
| 1 clock | 5.00 |
| 1 cupboard | 5.00 |
| 1 table | 1.00 |
| 1 chest | 2.00 |
| 3 pairs bedsteads | 4.00 |
| 1 feather bed, bed quilt | 9.00 |
| 1 trunk | 1.00 |
| 1 shot gun | 5.00 |
| 8 chairs | 3.00 |
| other books | .50 |
| 3 buckets | .50 |
| 1 looking glass & coffee mill | .50 |
| 1 cow bell & smoothing iron | .85 |
| 2 horse collars, 2 pair of hames, 1 pair traces | 1.00 |
| 3 hoes | .50 |
| 2 axes | 1.50 |
| 150 bus corn more or less | 45.00 |
| 1 half bushel, 2 scythes and window sash | 1.00 |
| fodder | 5.00 |
| wheat in sheaf | 5.00 |
| cupboard ware | 2.00 |
| 1 iron kettle | .75 |
| cooking utensils | 3.00 |
| 1 churn | 1.00 |
| 1 frow & steelyards | 1.00 |
| 2 spinning wheels | 4.00 |
| 1 box & 8 barrels | 3.00 |
| 2 syckles and 1 side saddle | 1.50 |
| 3 augers, 1 box sundries | 1.25 |
| 2 ploughs &c | 2.00 |
| 1 chain | .50 |
We the sworn appraisers do certify that the above appraisement list is made according to the best of our judgment this the 29th day of November 1850.
Thomas Hackleman
William Lines, appraisers
| Thomas Cooksey dr. by note for 31 bus corn | 7.50 |
| to work done by deceased | 23.50 |
| John Barkener dr. | 5.00 |
| Thomas Cooksey Junr. To said deceased for 20 bushels of corn @ 30¢ per bus | 6.00 |
| 284.76 | |
| 187.10 | |
| 471.86 | |
| 246.76 | |
| 225.10 |
We the sworn appraisers certify to the above appraisement bill.
William Lines
Thomas Hackleman
School land purchased by the deceased Zachariah Cooksey Jun'r on the 26th day of December AD 1846. The west half of the northeast quarter of section 16 being lots no. two and seven in Township eleven of Range twelve East in Franklin County and State of Indiana for the sum of $242.76 of which he has paid $60.69 being one fourth of the purchase money, also $10.93 being one years interest in advance. His interest in the above is appraised at $50.00.