Spartanburg County ScArchives Wills.....Moore, Wesley June 20, 1854 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/sc/scfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sharon Moore mathew_brady@msn.com November 1, 2014, 4:03 am Source: South Carolina Dept. Of Archives And History Wills Vol. 3, Sec D Page 325 Written: June 20, 1854 Recorded: September 4, 1854 Will of Wesley Moore State of South Carolina, Spartanburg District. The last will and Testament of Wesley Moore, 1. I give and bequeath unto my sons Elihu and Mansel Moore the 2 horses which they claim and which they now have in possession, to them their heirs and assigns. 2. As soon after the present crop on my plantation is gathered as may be convenient, it is my will that all my property both real and personal, be sold by my Executors (except one half of the present crop which belongs to my two sons Mansel & Elihu) on a credit of Twelve months, with interest from the day of sale, and all my just debts paid out of the proceeds, and the balance equally divided between my wife Vianna Moore, and my children, Mansel Moore Elihu Moore, Louisa Moore, Mary Moore, Sarah Moore, & susan Moore, and if my wife, Vianna Moore, whom I believe to be pregnant, should bring forth a living child, and it should live to be five years old, I wish it to have an equal share of my estate, with my wife and the other children, and if any of my children who are under age, should die before they are twenty one years old, or before they marry, it is my will that their share of the estate return back and be equally divided between the surviving legatees, nothing in this item to be considered so as to prevent any one of the legatees or their heirs from receiving their full share of my estate if they should marry and then die before they are twenty one years old, & when any of them arrive at that age their share to be theirs alsolutely to dispose of as they please whether married or single. 3.It is my will that my executors sell the cotton which I have in Columbia when ever they think proper and give one fourth of the proceeds to my son Mansel Moore, which fourth belongs to him, and with the balance of the money pay a debt I owe in Columbia and the balance to John S. Rogers on a debt of $33.88 ½ which I owe him with interest from from the time I recd the mony. 4. I hereby ordain and appoint & constitute my friends, John H. Walker and John S. Rogers, as Executors of this my last will and Testament, who I also appoint as guardians of my minor children, Stacy, Sarah, and Susan and the one that may be born and become an heir hereafter, untill they become twenty one years ole, or marry if they marry before that age, witness my hand and seal this this 20th day of June 1854 Wesley his X mark Moore (Seal) Signed sealed and Declared to be his last will and testament in the presence of C. R. Bobo Solomen Hays Benjamin N. Young Recorded in Will Book D Page 392 Box 11 Package 26 Recorded 4th September 1854 R. Bowden O.S.D. Additional Comments: Typos and repeated words are original to typescript. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/sc/spartanburg/wills/moore55nwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/scfiles/ File size: 3.4 Kb