PATRICK COUNTY, VA - WILLS - Lewis Spencer, 3 Jul 1879
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                                         July the 3, 1879
   Lewis Spencer
                    i take my pen and wright my will feeling
that my time is shorte heer i give Roseybell Lucindy Dil-
lon Daughter a surten tracke of land that called the Davis
tract 40 acres more or lef and that is to goe in stid of
her money and hose i give her a sadle and bridle igive
her a cow and calf as the rest i give her a bed stid
and furniture such as the rest had i give her my burrow
i give her a bee hive i give her a wheel i give her a
skilled and lid i give her a cheer to set in i give her a Jar
and pitcher bole and plats and tee cups and sorers and my
and a bole i want Roseybell to have all that and then let
her go equal alike with the balance of my arse i want
Ruth laws children to have ther mothers parte
Test                                                               
				Lewis Spencer (Seal)
A.J.Capell                    	his hand and seal
Joseph Franz
                 i Lewis Spencer give all the lawful arse
the same and i want and will Roseybell Spencer the
same as the rest            	Lewis Spencer
                              	my hand and (Seal)

         In Patrick County Court, September Term 1892.
The last will and testament of Lewis Spencer decd. was
this day produced in court and proved by the oath of A.J.
Capell, one of the subscribing witnefes thereto, and the hand
writing of Joseph Franz, the other subscribing witnef thereto, he
being dead, was also proven by said Capell, as was the hand
writing of the testator and is ordered to be recorded.
                  Copy
                               	Teste
                               	Wm. W. Moir, D.C.

Will Book 8, page 162, Patrick County, Virginia

Transcribers note: Rosabelle A. Dillion was the daughter of Lewis
Spencer's grand niece Lucinda Dillion. She was married 7 March 1884 to George
Spencer. Lewis Spencer apparently added the last lines after her marriage.
Rosabelle and her mother lived in Lewis Spencer's household.