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Calendar of Wills in West Virginia, No. 49. Upshur County (Buckhannon)
Prepared by The West Virginia Historical Records Survey
Division of Community Services Programs, Work Projects Administration
Charleston, West Virginia
The West Virginia Historical Records Survey, August 1941
(19)

LEWIS, JOHN, Upshur County, Va., 21 Nov. 1858; Dec. term, 1858. 

Wife not named, sons ISAAC LEWIS, JAMES LEWIS, JOHN LEWIS, MARSHALL
LEWIS, daus. ELIZABETH HESS, MALINDA HINKLE, and LOUISA LEWIS,
CEMANTHA, dau. of Adam LEWIS, deceased [relationship not shown]. 
Son Isaac Lewis, ex.

Testator desires pmt. of funeral expenses; bequeaths to wife, not
named, l/3 of two homestead farms and 1/4 of personalty during
lifetime; to son ISAAC LEWIS, prior gifts and $1; to son JAMES LEWIS,
$450, a horse called "Pete" and 3 sheep; to sons JOHN and MARSHALL
LEWIS, equal division of two homestead farms; also to sd. JOHN, a gray
horse, bridle, and saddle; also to sd. MARSHALL a sorrel mare, bridle,
and saddle; to dau. ELIZABETH HESS and heirs, prior gifts and $350,
Isaac Lewis to act as her trustee; to dau. MALINDA HINKLE, prior gifts
and $300; to dau. LOUISA LEWIS, $300, saddle, cow, 3 sheep, bedding
"and bedclothes" when she leaves her mother; to CEMANTHA, reared by
testator and dau. of Adam LEWIS, deceased, a bed, a cow, and $100
"providing she remains with her aunt and is a good girl until she is
of age"; all realty and personalty not devised to be sold and proceeds
distributed to provide for afsd. bequests to "James and the girls",
any deficit to be pd. by sons John and Marshall or if surplus to be
equally distributed among all children.

Teste., S. Rohrbough, Abram Post, Lare Deen. 
Bk. A, pp, 35-37. 

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ABBREVIATIONS
afsd.        aforesaid 
Bk.               Book 
dau(s).    daughter(s) 
ex(s).     executor(s) 
pd.               paid 
pmt(s).     payment(s) 
pp.              pages 
sd.               said 
teste.        testated 

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Death Register, Upshur County WV 1858, Page 8, Line 13
John Lewis died 27-Nov-1858 at age 59 years
husband of: Mary Lewis
son of: Joseph & Mary Lewis
born: Pendleton Co Va
occupation: Farmer
informant: son, John Lewis