Smyth County Will Book 7: 328
Will of Jane B. Buchanan
Not dated; recorded19 Jul 1897
copied at the courthouse by Carolyn Ryburn
abstracted by D. Powell
Jane B. Buchanan
1. just debts and funeral expenses to be paid by nephew Samuel A. Shepherd
2. to nephew Samuel A. Shepherd who has been kind to me in my old age, all of my property both real and personal
3. nephew Samuel A. Shepherd to pay my niece Amelia Shepherd $500 and to my brother Alexander Buchanan $100; to my sister Mary Ward $100; to my sister Rosannah Witten $100; to the children of my sister Margaret Crenshaw $100 and to the children of my brother William Buchanan $100
4. Samuel A. Shepherd to have a neat set of tombstones erected at my grave
[no date] Jane B. Buchanan
Wit
Geo W. Richardson
Wm Poston
19 Jul 1897
recorded