UNION COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA - PROBATE RECORD - Thomas RAY, 1862


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 R Leslie Prince   (r.l.prince@worldnet.att.net)
 121 Indian Ridge Dr
 Laurens, SC 29360

 20 Sep 1998

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Thomas Ray Senr. (Rev. Thomas Ray)
Union County, South Carolina
Probate Court
Box 45, Pack 6, Date 1862
Last Will and Testament

...I Thomas Ray Senr. ...my executor shall hand over to the official members of
the Baptist Church at Padgets Creek...Three Hundred Dollars to be expended as
the church at that place may think proper.
...that my sister, Mrs. Judith Gibbs shall, if she survives me, shall have Two
Hundred Dollars in cash...all which may be left at her death to go into the
hands and for the benefit of her daughter Ireeny Fant.
...I wish that my negroes to be appraised in families- this far at least- say
the husband & wife with all their children of twelve years of age and under; and
the weomen, having no husbands here, with their children of twelve years of age
and under; and I wish for my children or grandchildren to have the privilege of
taking my negroes at the appraisement...
The grandchildren alluded to above are the children of my daughter Nancy
Sanders, who are to receive the share of their deceased mother. And the
daughters of my daughter Mary Salter and of my son Thomas J. Ray, who are,
respectively to receive the shares of their deceased parents, this provision to
extend to my grand children, the sons and daughters of my sons William & John
Ray & my daughter Eliza Montgomery, provided I should survive my said children
last named.
I constitute and appoint my son William Ray Executor...
June 11, 1860
Signed Thomas Ray

Estate sale bill total = $20,235.40




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