Franklin County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Photos Documents.....Ingram, Alexander Will page 421 Image 1
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Will Book 6 Page 421 Mar 1, 1849

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I Alexander Ingram Sr. of Franklin County & State of Virginia being weak in boddy but of sound 
mind & disposing memory calling to mind that all men have to die do make this my last will and 
testament in manor & form folling  1st I give my soul to God that give it & my boddy to be 
decently buried & my buriel & funeral expenses paid by my executors hereafter named.  2nd I will
that all my just debts be paid out of my estate by my executors.  3rd  I give my beloved wife 
Elizabeth Ingrum all my estate both real & personal consisting of my land & negroes namely 
George, Bob, Stephen & Sophia & Amanda, Hanry, Moses, Metilda, Roda together with all my 
household & kitchen furniture plantation essentials & my stock of all kind & all legacy that may
come to me during her natural life & my will is that she shall have the privlidge of selling of 
any of the negroes or stock that may not suit her & dispose of the money to her own use during 
her natural life.  4" & at the deth of my wife my will is that my negroes be __?__ to my my 
children namely Pleasant, Martha, Exomy, Jane, Elkanah, Sarah & Nancy except what I hereafter 
may give to my Grand Daughter Nancy Jane Canaday & as for the land and balance of my estate sold
& each of my children to have one seventh part of all the proceeds of said sale.  5" My will is 
that my Grand Daughter Nancy Jane Canaday the daughter of Orpha Canaday dec'd when she becomes 
of age or mary shall have the following negroes, to wit: Amanda & Moses and bed & furniture & 
one side saddle given her by my executors & if she dies before she becomes of age unless she 
marries, my will is that the said negroes to wit: Amanda & Moses & said property be equally 
divided among my seven children as above named.  I will & desire that my daughter Exomy Lesuers 
have a bond I now have in hand on John Griffith for one hundred dollars extra of the peace of 
land I lately give her being a part of the land I purchased of Saunders to make her equal with 
what I have given my other children & I will that my beloved son Elkanah T. Ingrum have & hold 
the tract of land where he now lives it being a part of said tract of land that I
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