Upshur County WV Archives Wills.....Gould, Nathan July 31, 1855
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Source: Calendar Of Wills In West Virginia, No. 49. Upshur County (buckhannon)
Written: July 31, 1855
Recorded: October 1856

Prepared by The West Virginia Historical Records Survey
Division of Community Services Programs, Work Projects Administration
Charleston, West Virginia
The West Virginia Historical Records Survey, August 1941
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GOULD, NATHAN, Upshur County, Va., 31 July, 1855; Oct. term, 1856. 

Wife CEMANTHA, sons, JOSEPH, JOEL FREEMAN, NATHAN, JONATHAN, WATSON, JOSEPH,
daus. ESTHER PHILLIPS, CELIA, ROXANA, CYNTHA ANN HOWES, MARTHA RICE, ELIZABETH
BUTTON, JULIA CURTIS and LYDIA BROWN. No ex. named. 

Testator bequeaths to son JOSEPH, all personalty with exception of household
furniture and all realty with exception of 100 a. (testator's homestead) with
provision that he care for testator's wife CEMANTHA for lifetime; also that sd.
Joseph allow testator's sons JONATHAN and WATSON to reside with him, and work
for him, until they reach legal age; should Joseph fail to support sd. Cemantha
then realty and personalty to her for lifetime or widowhood; to wife CEMANTHA,
all household furniture; to son JONATHAN l/3 of remaining realty with provision
that he pay testator's dau. ROXANNA $15; to son WATSON, l/3 of realty with
provision that he pay testator's dau. CELIA, $15; to son MARSHALL, prior gift of
50 a., on French Creek with provision that he pay testator's dau. ESTHER
PHILLIPS, $15; son JOSEPH to pay testator's dau. CYNTHIA ANN HOWES, $15; to
daus. ROXANNA and CELIA, same amount of household articles as "sisteres Esther
and Cyntha Ann have"; to sons JOEL FREEMAN, and NATHAN, $1 each; to daus; MARTHA
RICE, ELIZABETH BUTTON, JULIA CURTIS, and LYDIA BROWN, $1 each. 

Teste., Anson Young, John Howes, Daniel Howes. 
Bk. A, p. 26.

Additional Comments:
ABBREVIATIONS
a.                acre 
Bk.               Book 
dau(s).    daughter(s) 
ex(s).     executor(s) 
p.                page 
sd.               said 
teste.        testated 

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Death Register, Upshur County WV, 1856, Page 5, Line 16
Nathan Gould died 3-Sep-1856 at age 82 years
husband of: Samantha Gould
son of: Nathan & Martha G. Gould
born: New Hampshire
occupation: Farmer
cause: Consumption

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