Lee-Russell-Patrick County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Wills.....Chafin, Jerusha May 6, 1914
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Source: Lee County Virginia Will Book 1916
Written: May 6, 1914
Recorded: August 26, 1916

"In the name of God Amen:  I, JERUSHA CHAFIN of Lee County, Rocky Station 
District, Virginia, do make this my last will and testament as follows:
"1st I give and devise unto my son JOHN M. CHAFIN all that certain tract or 
parcel of land lying and being in Lee County, Rocky Station Magisterial 
District, Virginia, and adjoining the lands of Emmet Lawson, HENRY CHAFIN, 
Joseph Peters, and the Mountain View Meeting House , containing 12 acres.
"2nd.  I appoint JAMES M. DURHAM, Executor of this my will and desire that no 
security be required of him such.
"Witness my hand this 6th day of May 1914.	  
	Jerusha Chafin
Signed, published, and acknowledged by JERUSHA CHAFIN is and for her last will 
in the presence of us who in her presence and in the presence of each other 
have hereto subscribed our names as witnesses.
Lawrence Durham  	Clarance Durham		
Virginia:  	In the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the County 
of Lee on this the 26th day of August 1916. It advising that JERUSHA CHAFIN 
died some time wise in the Southwest Virginia Hospital at Marion in the county 
of Smith, State of Virginia."

Additional Comments:
Jerusha Chafin was born December 10, 1846, at Patrick County, Virginia, and 
named Jerusha July Edens by her parents, Andrew Jackson Edens and Statira 
Shelor.  The family removed from Patrick County, VA to Russell Co., VA after 
the Civil Ward and settled by 1870 in Lee County, VA.  Jerusha Chafin died on 
26 August 1916 of dementia and dysentery at the Southwest Virginia Hospital at 
Marion, Smyth County, Virgina.  She gave birth to 14 children to include the 
following:  Henry, Margaret, Eliza (Lyde)Chafin Ward, Nancy Chafin, Sally C. 
Chafin, James Chafin, John Meredith Chafin, Mollie Chafin, Martha Chafin 
Lawson, and five unidentified children.  She married James Henry Chafin on 2 
February 1869 at Russell County, VA; her husband died 25 June 1927 at Lee 
County, Virginia.

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