Washington Co., Virginia, Will Bk 28: 95
Will of Nickerson Snead
Dated 12 March 1867; recorded 6 Apr. 1869
Abstracted by Diana Powell from FHL mf #2025879
Nickerson Snead of the County of Washington, state of Virignia
- executors to pay all just debts & funeral expenses from personal estate; the remainder of my personal effects to my wife, Elizabeth Snead
- to my sister-in-law Sarah Edmondson the house now occupied by R.F. Smith situated on the south side of my farm; also 10 acres of surrounding land
- remainder of my lands to my wife Elizabeth during her life; at her death land to be sold at public sale and proceeds equally divided among my living brothers and sisters and the heirs of those deceased
- appt friends David M. Stuart and James S. Buchanan executors
12 Mar 1867 his
Nickerson Snead
Witnesses mark
J.K. Rambo
E.A. Robinson
A.H. Byars
Wm B. Edmondson
An addition to the foregoing will…executors to pay to my niece, Florence Minerva Smith, formerly Florence Minerva Edmondson [Aug. 2008: I had previously mis-transcribed surname as Henderson] $300
12 March. 1867
Same witnesses
Circuit Court 6 April 1869 will was proved and ordered recorded