Stover Wills
John Stover
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Will Book 1, pg 3. Raleigh Couny, Virginia (West Virginia)
Will of John Stover, Sr
I, John Stover, Sr. being in my right mind & believing in God, do
hereby make this my last Will and Testament and have set hereunto my
hand and seal; as follow to wit.
1st My land I dispose of as follows...
1st. The land now occupied by Henry Williams, my son in law I
will to him and Jane, his wife, said tract as theirs and as the
tract is worth more that I wish to give them, said Henry
Williams is to pay to Stephen and Daniel Stover (my sons) one
hundred dollars each when they become of age, making two
hundred dollars in all that said Williams is to pay.
2. The tracts bought of Fielden Fips now occupied by my sons
Burwell & John Stover, I will to John and Burwell, my sons as
theirs. My son John is to have all the land that side of the
Creek on which he now lives from the mouth of the Spring branch
to the lower end of the tract. And, my son Burwell is to
have all of that tract on the opposite side; say on the same
side on which Burwell lives and also that portion lying on
John's side above the mouth of said Spring Branch. My son John
is to pay two hundred dollars of the price of the land with
interest from the 23rd day of April 1848 till paid.
3. My home place on which I live I will to my beloved wife
during her lifetime, and at her death it is to belong to
Silas, Lewis,Stephen, Daniel (my sons) equally. And my afflicted
daughter, Manervy, is to be taken care of by her mother and my
four sons to whom I will the home place or if deemed best Manervy
may be removed to the Lunatic Asylum at Staunton, Va.
4. I give out of my personal estate one dollar to my son Ervin
Stover and one dollar to my Daughter Sally Bailey having given
them before what I intended them to have; And after all my just
debts are paid, I give all the ballance of my personal estate
to my beloved wife, Nancy Stover. My four sons, Silas, Lewis
Stephen, and Daniel Stover are have what their mother can give
them if they should marry and go to themselves, but I leave my
personal estate to my wife to dispose of as she may think best.
5. I hereby appoint my sons John Stover and Burwell Stover as my
lawful executors to carry this will into effect, emploring the
God of the widows and the Fatherless to be with my family and
bring us all safe to heaven at last.
Signed sealed and authenticated this 13th day of November one
thousand and eight hundred and fifty one.
Tests: John Stover, Sr. (seal)
Joseph Carper(Harper?)
M. Ellison
At a County Court held for the County of Raleigh. On Monday the 24th day
of November 1851.
The last Will and Testament of John Stover Sr dec'd was proven
according to Law by the oaths of Joseph Carper and M. Ellison. Witnesses
thereto: And is order to be recorded.
A copy teste, Daniel Shumate, clerk
Know all men by these presents that we John Stover, Jr and Burwell
Stover, Christopher Roles, and Lewis Williams, Sr. are held and firmly
bound unto the Commonwealth of Virginia in the sum of One Thousand
Dollars to the payment whereof well and truly to be made to the said
Commonwealath, we bind ourselves and heirs, jointly and severally,
firmly by these presents. Sealed with our seals and dated this 24th day
of November in the year One thousand eight hundred and fify-one.
The condition of the above obligation is that if the said
John Stover, Jr. and Burwell Stover, Executors of the last Will
and Testament of John Stover deceased, do make a true and
perfect inventory of all and singular the Good Chattles and Credits
of the said deceased together with an inventory of the Real Estate
within this Commonwealth which by the said Will may be subject to
their Authority which have or shall come to the hand, possessions,
or knowledge of them the said John Stover Jr and Burwell Stover, or
into the hands or possessions of any other person or persons for
them and the same so made, do exhibit to the County Court of Raleigh
at such time as they shall be thereto required by the said Court.
And the same Good Chattles and credits and Real Estate will and
truly administer according to Law and make a just and true account
of their actings and doings therein when thereunto required by the
said Court. And further do well and truly pay and deliver all the
Legacies contained and specified in the said Will, as far as the
said Good Chattels and Credits and Real Estate will extend according to
the value thereof; And as the Law shall charge them; then this
obligation to be void or else remain in full force.
John Stover, Jr (seal)
Burwell Sotver (seal)
C. Roles (seal)
Lewis Williams (seal)
