Washington County, Virginia Will Book 24:53-54
Margaret Grinstead will
Dated 3 March 1888; recorded 22 Sept 1890
Transcribed April 2012 from FHL microfilm 2025877
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I Margaret Grinstead, conscious of the uncertainty of life, feeble in body but of sound mind and disposing memory do make and publish this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me at any time made.
1st. I direct that all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid and that suitable tombstones be erected to mark my grave.
2nd I give and devise my farm on which I now live in Washington County Virginia adjoining the lands of M. McCormocks heirs and others containing about 73 acres be the same more or less in fee simple to Mary Ellen Hutton and Rachel M. Hutton, daughters of Samuel C. Hutton dec’d, provided that their mother Isabella Hutton shall have a house on and her support from said farm during her natural life and provided further that Rebecca Hutton shall also have a house on and her support from said farm as long as she remains single and unmarried.
3rd I give and bequeath to said Mary E. Hutton one bed-stead one bed and the necessary bed clothes complete.
4th I give and bequeath to Rachel M. Hutton aforesaid one bed-stead one bed and the necessary bed clothes complete.
5th I give to Mary E. Hutton aforesaid one linen table cloth and one table cloth that I wove myself.
6th I give and bequeath to said Rachel M. Hutton two table cloths woven by my own hands.
7th I give and bequeath to said Rebecca Hutton one counterpane and two table cloths woven by myself.
8th I give to Mrs. Isabella Hutton two table cloths and one counterpane.
9th After the payment of my just debts and funeral expenses and the erection of my grave stones herein mentioned, I give and bequeath all the balance of my personal property of every kind whatsoever to said Mary E. Hutton and Rachel M. Hutton.
10th I appoint Samuel J. Hutton executor of this my will and request that he be not required to give security on his official bond as such. Witness my hand this 3rd day of March in the year of our Lord, 1888.
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Margaret Grinstead
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Acknowledged & signed by the testatrix Margaret Grinstead as her last will in our presence and in the presence of each of us, who present together and in her presence and at her request have subscribed our names hereunto as witnesses
L.J. Walden
Selden Longley
At a court continued and held for Washington County the 22nd day of September 1890 as a writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Margaret Grinstead deceased was this day produced in Court and proved by the oaths of L.J. Walden and Selden Longley the two subscribing witnesses thereto. It is therefore ordered that the same be recorded as and for the last will and testament of Margaret Grinstead deceased. Thereupon on motion of S.J. Hutton, the Executor therein named who took the oath of an Executor prescribed by law and entered into and acknowledged a bond in the sum of $100 conditioned as the law directs without security, the testatrix requesting in her said will that none be required of him as such, a certificate is therefore granted him for the probate of the said will of Margaret Grinstead deceased in due form.
Teste
D.C. Cummings Jr., Clerk