WALKER, JOHN, WILL - 1850, MERCER COUNTY, VA

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WILL BOOK  1 , PAGE 31


        Know all men by these presents that I John Walker of the County of
Mercer and State of Virginia being feeble in body but in perfect mind and 
memory thanks be given unto God calling into mind the mortality of my body 
and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain 
this my last will and testament that is to say principally and first of all 
I give and recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God who gave it and 
my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in decent Christian burial at 
the discretion of my executors nothing doubting but at the general 
resurrection I shall receive he same again by the mighty power of God and a 
s touching such worldly estate wherewith it has pleased God to help me in 
this life I give demise and dispose of the same in the following manner and 
form (VIZ) first of all my just debts to be paid out of my money or levied 
out of my personal property. I give and bequeath unto my well beloved wife 
Nancy the whole of the household furniture and kitchen furnture and one cow 
such as she may choose together with two Berkshire sows and six shoats also 
Forty dollars in money.

        I also give and bequeath unto my well beloved son Charles Walker 
the lot of land which my dwelling house now stands on as following, beginning
at the first fork of the big branch running a north direction to the line 
and running round with the lines above the upper end of the clover field so 
as to strike the mouth of the big branch he running up the said branch to the
beginning. The balance of the old survey making one lot and the balance of 
the big branch tract the other lot at one thousand dollars each lot my son 
Charles Walker is to have the control of the whole of the above land his 
mothers lifetime. The sand lick tract I also value at one thousand dollars 
all the property not devised heretofore cattle horses hogs &c with the debts 
coming to me with the two aforesaid lots of land with the sand branch tract 
of land to be equally divided between my daughter Polly Bailey my daughter 
Elizabeth Bailey my son Chryspianos Walker my daughter Sally Boling my 
daughter Nancy Hatcher my daughter Margaret Lilly my daughter Cynthia Rite 
(sic) and my daughter Ursula Bailey.

        I constitute make and ordain my two sons Chryspianos Walker and 
Charles Walker the sole executors of this my last will and testament and do 
hereby disallow revoke and disavow every other forms testaments legacies and 
wills bequest and executors in any wise before named willed and bequeathed 
ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament 
in witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal this 27th day of November
1849.

                                  JOHN WALKER (SEAL)
TESTE: John McCaugherty Jr.
       John Stamper
       Madison Karnes


At Mercer County Court April term 1850

        The last will and testament of John Walker deceased was proven by 
the oath of John McClaugerty Jr. & Madison Karnes two of the subscribing 
witnesses thereto and is ordered to be recorded and on motion of Chrispyanos 
Walker one of the executors therein named who made oath thereto and together 
with Eli Bailey , Joseph Wright & Symms Thompson his securities entered into 
and acknowledged their bond in the penalty of $5000 conditioned as the law 
directs certificate is granted him for obtaining a probate of the said will 
in due form. Charles Walker the other executor named in the said will 
appeared in court and refused to take upon himself the burden of the 
execution thereof.

                       A COPY TESTE
                       WM. F. Hosstinstall Esq.