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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
(10)

POST, ABRAHAM, Upshur County, Va., 22 June 1854; March term, 1855. 

Wife, CHRISTENA, sons ABRAM, DANIEL, ISAAC, GEORGE, daus. FANNY
RADABAUGH, BARBARA SWECKER, MARY BENNETT, grdaus. CAROLINE ROHRBOUGH,
ELIZABETH ROHRBOUGH, MARGARET LINCH, GEMIMAH CLARK, Sons, Abram Post
and Daniel Post, exs.

Testator desires pmt. of debts and funeral expenses; queaths to wife
CHRISTENA, "sufficient sum of money to maintain her comfortably for
life to be paid by executors each year or when demanded by her not to
exceed one hundred dollars each year"; exs. to collect all debts and
sell all property except "my two-horse wagon and blacksmith tools"; to
son ABRAM, sd. wagon and tools; to son ISAAC, in addition to prior
gifts, $50; to son GEORGE, in addition to prior gifts, $50; to dau.
FANNY, wife of Benjamin RADABAUGH, in addition to prior gifts, $50; to
dau. BARBARA, wife of Daniel SWECKER, in addition to prior gifts, $20;
to dau. MARY, wife of Simon BENNETT, $400; to grdau. CAROLINE
ROHRBOUGH, $50; to grdau. ELIZABETH ROHRBOUGH §50; to grdau. JEMIMAH,
wife of Reiley CLARK, $50; to grdau. MARGARET, wife of Daniel LINCH,
$50; remainder of estate to sons ABRAM and DANIEL POST.

Teste., G. W. Berlin, Fred'k. Berlin, H. McPaddin.
Bk. A, pp. 20-22.

Codicil: 8 Feb. 1855.
Testator bequeaths to grdau. GEMIMA CLARK, $300 to be invested in land
as follows: son Daniel Post is indebted to testator for $400 of which
he is to pay $300 for a tract of land to be selected by Riley Clark,
husband of sd. Gemima, deed to be made in Gemima's name; to son DANIEL
POST, remainder of $400 note.

Teste., Jac. Waugh, Ira Post. 


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ABBREVIATIONS
dau(s).          daughter(s) 
ex(s).           executor(s) 
grdau(s).   granddaughter(s) 
pmt(s).           payment(s) 
pp.                    pages 
sd.                     said 
teste.              testated 

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Death Register, Upshur County WV 1855, Page , Line 22
Abraham Jackson died 8-Mar-1855 at 71 years of age
cause: Kidney Disease
born: Hardy County Va
occup: Farmer & Blacksmith
husband of: Christena Post
Informant: son, Abram Post