Washington Co., Virginia Will Book 29: 29
Will of Margaret Carpenter
Dated 6 Apr. 1898; recorded 4 May 1905
Abstracted from FHL mf# 2025879
Margaret A. Carpenter of Washington Co., Virginia, relict of James Carpenter
1. to daughter Permelia Carpenter, in whom I have great confidence, and to whom already much is due for the care and kindness she has shown towards me in sickness and in health - all my real and personal property to be held and controlled by her during my life, and at my death to become exclusively her individual property on the following condition:
- that she provide me a home with herself, in this the old family homestead while I live with the same filial regard and kindness that she has heretofore and is now manifesting
- that she pay the annual taxes on the property
- that she at my death meet the necessary expenses for my funeral and burial
2. property in #1 to include whatever may come to me while I am alive or after my death
3. real estate named in #1 embraces all that part of the lands of which the above named James Carpenter died seized, that was assigned to me in a division of land made by mutual agreement of the heirs and mutual conveyances of the same
4. appt Thomas M. Porterfield executor
6 Apr. 1898 Margaret A. Carpenter
Wit
Jas A. Davis
J.T. Quesenberry
4 May 1905 Circuit Ct. of Washington County; will proved and recorded