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Calendar of Wills in West Virginia, No. 49. Upshur County (Buckhannon)
Prepared by The West Virginia Historical Records Survey
Divsision of Community Services Programs, Work Projects Administration
Charleston, West Virginia
The West Virginia Historical Records Survey, August 1941
(27)

REESE, SOLOMON, Upshur County, Va., 19 Nov. 1861; Jan. term, 1862. 

Wife ELIZABETH, sons DAVID, JONATHAN, SAMUEL, daus. SARAH ROLLINS,
ELIZABETH ROLLINS, JANE WESTFALL, and REBECCA REESE. No ex. named.
Testator bequeaths to wife ELIZABETH use of "mansion house" for life
time, also 4 sheep, 1 cow, a small spinning wheel, 1 bed and bedding,
1/3 of crops; to son DAVID REESE, 20 a. and 24 poles of land "where he
now resides" with provision that he pay to testator's son JONATHAN
REESE, $35 in 2 years from date of will; to son SAMUEL REESE, 54 a. of
land on which testator resides with provision that sd. Samuel pay $200
to each of testator's daus. SARAH ROLLINS, ELIZABETH ROLLINS, JANE
WESTFALL, and REBECCA REESE, to be pd. in installments of $100 in 2
yrs. and equal pmt. at end of 4 yrs.; wife ELIZABETH and dau. REBECCA
to have life use of mansion house; to son JONATHAN REESE, $35 to be
pd. by sd. David; to dau. REBECCA, bed and bedding, large spinning
wheel, loom "and its weaving contents"; to dau. SARAH ROLLINS, $50 to
be pd. by son Samuel; to dau. ELIZABETH ROLLINS, $50 to be pd. by son
Samuel; to dau. JANE WESTFALL, $50 to be pd. by son Samuel; residue of
property to son SAMUEL with provision that he "pay off a bond I
executed [to] T. Janny for Thirty dollars or there about."

Teste., N. B. Wamsley, A. S. Rollins. 
Bk. A, pp. 50, 51.

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ABBREVIATIONS
a.                acre 
Bk.               Book 
dau(s).    daughter(s) 
ex(s).     executor(s) 
pd.               paid 
pmt(s).     payment(s) 
pp.              pages 
sd.               said 
teste.        testated 
yr(s).         year(s) 

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Death Register, Upshur County WV 1861, Page 13, Line 90
Solomon Reese died 25-Nov-1861 at 67 years of age
husband of: Mrs Reese
born: Augusta Co
informant: son, Saml Reese
cause: Dropsy of Chest