1872 WILL of F. A. Hilburn– Tunica County, Mississippi.
Transcribed by Joy Hilbun Mohr from Microfilm copy of WILL from Mississippi Dept. of Archives and History, Jackson, MS. In addition, this will is now availabe on Ancestry.com.  That one appears to be a transcription of the original will and there is very little to no punctuation within the will.

The last will & Testament of one F. A. Hilburn being of sound mind but knowing the uncertainty of human affairs knowing that life is short & death certain I hereby direct that after my death all my just debts & funeral expenses be paid that my personality be first exhausted to the payment of my debts & if there be not sufficient therefore that my plantation on which I now reside be rented leased or cultivated as to my executors may seem best & the profits arising therefrom be appropriated to the payment of my said debts & after the same shall Have been thus paid I direct that my plantation be continued to be cultivated or rented as to my executors may seem best & that the profits arising there from be appropriated to the maintenance of my two daughters Susan F. Hilburn, Sarah A. M. Webster until they shall marry & to the education & maintenance of my three sons Andrew J. Hilbun, Fredrick A. Hilbun & Lemuel T. Hilburn until they respectively attain the age of 21 years & that after my youngest son attains the age of 21 years or in case of his death also then when my next youngest son attains the age of 21 years I will & direct that all my property both real and personal be equally divided among all of my children then living to wit Susan F. Hilbun Sarah AM Webster, Andrew J. HIlbun, Frederick A Hilburn, Lemuel T. Hilbun and William W. Hilburn I do hereby appoint DJ Richmond, JV Bridgforth, and George C. Summerwill as executors of this my last will and testament.
I do hereby nominate and appoint GC Summerwill as Guardian of my sons Andrew J Hilbun, Frederick A> HIlbun and Lemuel T Hilbun this the 9th day of November 1872.
F A Hilburn (seal)
Signed sealed published and declared by this said F A HILBURN as his last will and testament in the presence of us who in his presence and in the presence of each other & at his request have herewith set & subscribed our names & seals this the 9th day of November 1872.

GC Summerwell
F. J. Phillips
John O Donnell
J. V. Bridgeforth

State of Mississippi. Tunica County.
In the Chancery Court of Tunica County of said County. Jany. Term AD 1873
IN the matter of a certain instrument of writing purporting to be the last will & testament of F. A. Hilbun deceased. Be it remembered that at a term of the chancery court of the county & state aforesaid bequest and held at the court house in and for said county on the first Monday in January 1873 personally appeared in open court, GC Summerwell & J V Bridgeforth subscribing witnesses to the last will and testament of F. A. Hilburn, deceased late of said county who having been first duly sworn deposed and said that the said F. A. Hilbun signed published and declared said instrument as his last will and testament on the 10th day of November 1873 the day of the date of said instrument in the presence of those deponents and T. J. Philips, John O’ Donnell the other subscribing witnesses to said instrument that said testator was then of sound and deposing mind and memory and twenty one years of age and upwards and that they the said deponents and the said T.J. Philips John O Donnell subscribed and attested said instrument as witnesses to the signature & publication thereof at the special instance & request and in the presence of each other on the day and year of the date thereof
J V Bridgforth
Sworn & subscribed
This 8 day of
January 1873
Clb Dunaway??
My notes regarding this will…….  This will of F. A. Hilbun appears to be of Frederick Hilbun, son of Woodward Hilbun.  They both are found in the 1850 Census of Pontotoc County, MS.  Frederick is in Pontotoc in 1860 and in Tunica County, MS in 1870.