SPARTANBURG DISTRICT WILL 
                   JOHN VISE, 1830


Will of John Vise:
The State of South Carolina, Spartanburg District
I John Vise, being in a very low state of health but of a sound and
propper disposing mind and memory and calling to mind the mortality of
my boddy and knowing that it is appointed for all men to die, do make
and ordain this my last will and testament in the manner and form
following that is to say principally and first I give and recommend my
soul into the hands of Almighty God who give it and my boddy I recommend
to the Earth to be decently intered at the discretion of my Executors
hoping to use again at the resurrection of the Just, and as touching all
my worldly Estate which it hath pleased God to bless me with:  I will
that all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid first: and having no
wife; and having given and bequeathed previous to this to all my
Children the portion which I allotted to them but my two sons Abner Vice
and Eli Vice; I now give and bequeath to my son Abner Vice one third of
the tract of land where on he now lives convenient to him.  The
remaining part of the tract I will and bequeath to my son Eli Vice also
all my personal propperty I Will and bequeath to my son Eli Vice; also
all my personal propperty I excepting one feather bed I will and
bequeath to my grand daughter Elvi Vice the daughter of Zery Vice my
son.  The house I formaly lived in is standing on the land I bequeathed
to my son Abner Vice I except which I will and bequeath to my son Eli
Vice to move or dispose of as he things propper.  I do also nominate and
appoint my two beloved sons Abner Vice and Eli Vice Executors of this my
last Will and Testament.  I do here by revoke and disannul all my former
wills by me made before Rattifying this and no other to be my last Will
and Testament.  In witness where of I do hereunto set my hand and affix
my seal.  This the Thirty-first day of March in the year of our LORD one
thousand eight hundred and thirty.
                                                                               
John Vice (LS)
Signed sealed & delivered
in the presents of us:
Nathanial Harrelson
John Rogers
Paul Jr. Crane

Submitter:
Mildred Fournier
PO Box 1967
Lake City, FL 32056
fournier@hankins.com

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