Pleasants County, West Virginia - Will of Rufus H. Holland

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


Name of County:  Pleasants

Date of Will:  April 21, 1865

Testator:  RUFUS H. HOLLLAND


     I, Rufus H. Holland of Pleasants County and State of West Virginia,
being of sound mind and discerning memory desireing to make some disposition
of my Earthly possessions with which God has blessed me, do make this my
last will and testament as follows to wit:  It is my will and desire that
my son William V. Holland shall have all my property real and personal except
such amount as my executor hereinafter mentioned may find necessary to pay my
funeral expenses whic I hereby require him to do, and if my executor shall
desire to pay over the moneys thus comeing into his hands before my son
William V. Holland shall be twenty-one years of age.  I hereby authorize him
to pay it to Morris Bishop of Desmoine County Iowa who is his Legan Gardian,
but if my executor desire he may hold the moneys in his own hands until he is
twenty one years of age and if my son William V. Holland should die before he
is twenty-one years of age, I hereby require my executor to pay the moneys to
the board of foreign missions of the Methodist Protestant  Church for to aid
in spreading the Gospel of Christ among the Heathen.  And lastly I do hereby
constitute & appoint my Brother Isaac Holland executor of this my last will
and testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me heretofore made.

In Testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal this 21st day of
April 1865.
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Rufus H. Holland
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Signed in presents of the undersigned
as the last will of Rufus H. Holland 

Silas McGregor
Thomas Weekley
A. S. Gorrell

Recorder's Office Pleasants County September 14th 1865.

     The last will and testament of Rufus H. Holland Decd was presented in the
Office Aforesaid on the 11 day of July 1865 and fully proved that at the time
Rufus Holland was of sound mind and disposong memory by the oaths of A. S.
Gorrell subscribing witnesses thereto whereupon the same is admitted to record
having Revenue Stamps thereon fifty cents which was cancelled.

Teste:  Josiah Powell
Recorder of P. C.