Pleasants County, West Virginia - Will of Mahlon Hanes

Source:  Copied by Linda Fluharty from LDS Film #0867841.


Name of County:  Pleasants

Date of Will:  March 15, 1865

Testator:  MAHLON HANES

Book 1, pages 21


   In the Name of God Amen

     I Mahlon Hanes of Pleasants County & State of W. Virginia feeling
impressed with the shortness of life & the certainty of death being of
sound mind & disposing memory do hereby make this my last will and
Testament in manner and form following to wit:  In the first place it
is my will & desire that as soon after my demise as may be convenient
my perishable property be sold and out of the monies arising therefrom
my just debts & funeral expenses be paid, and the remainder if any go
one third to my widow and the remaining two thirds be equally divided
between my legal heirs.  It is my will and desire that my widow shall
have & hold all my real estate during her natural life or as long as
she remains my widow; and after her demise I give and bequeath to my
two sons forever all the farm on which I now live, to wit: to my son
Theadore W. & Leander C. Hanes, all of said farm is hereby given to
them on the following conditions. They are required to pay to my other
heirs as follows:  To my daughter Adaline W. Moss they my two named sons
are required to pay One Hundred & fifty dollars.  To my Daughter Emily S.
they are required to pay a like sum.  And to my Daughter Mary S. they are
to pay the sum of five hundred dollars and to my Daughter Ellen Madora,
they are also to pay a like sum of five hundred dollars all of which
legacies are held as a lien on said land & to be paid at the following
dates all of which legacies are to be paid within five years after the
death of said widow. And lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint my
son Theadore W. Hanes my executor of this my last will & Testament,
hereby revoking all former wills & testaments by me heretofore made.

     In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my
seal this 15th day of March 1865.

MAHLON HANES

Signed in the presence of us whose names are signed as witnesses as
the last will and testament of the Testator.

Abner Martin
John Core

Recorder's Office Pleasants County, June -- 1865.

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