1824 last will & testament including slave, Monroe County Virginia (now West Virginia)
13 x 8 inches, 4 pp. good condition with some light dampstaining and a few short tears. Florence Graham's last will and testament, dividing up property between her four daughters, two sons and several grandchildren (including four granddaughters all named Florence!), giving money to some, household goods and apparel to others, including linen bedding, silk shawl, pillows, and to her daughter Jane Jarrett "a negro woman named Rose." They were residents of Monroe County, then in Virginia and now in West Virginia; it is one of the southernmost WV counties, a little NW of Roanoke and Blacksburg. From an online genealogy site, the following information about the Graham family: James Graham and Florence, his wife, had born to them ten children, six sons and four daughters, whose names were as follows: William, born December 5th, 1765; John, born December 22nd, 1767; Elizabeth, born March 29, 1770; David, born March 24, 1772; Jane, born September 4th, 1774; James, born 1777; Samuel, born 1780; Lanty, born 1783; Rebecca, born January 15, 1786; and Florence, born May 3rd, 1789. William, the oldest, married in 1809, Catherine Johnson, daughter of Robert Johnson of Johnson’s Cross Roads, and settled on the farm more recently owned by the late D. M. Riffe. This tract of land containing four hundred acres, mostly river bottom, was surveyed and patented by William Graham in 1785. At the first court held for the organization of Monroe county in 1799, William Graham was appointed Military Major of the sixty-sixth regiment of Virginia. He was also appointed Justice of the Peace at the organization of said county and held the office continuously for thirty-seven years or until his death. In the year 1809 he was elected as a Representative of his county to the General Assembly of Virginia and served acceptably in that body in the session of the winter of 1809-10. He had three children, James (No. 2), William and Betty. James was born in the year 1810 and married Patsy Guinn, daughter of Joseph Guinn. William, Jr., born 1812, married Rebecca Kincaid, daughter of Lanty Kincaid, and had three children, James Lanty, the Nimrod (see sketch of the Lanty Kincaid family), Katy and Julia. Both William, Jr., and his brother, James, moved to Missouri in the year 1841. William died there a few years later. James went from Missouri to California in the great rush for gold in 1849. He again visited his native county about the year 1866. He died but a few years ago in Missouri. Bettie married Allen Ellis, son of Jacob Ellis, and moved to Ohio, where several years later they both died. They had three children, one of whom, Edgar Ellis, lived soon after the civil war on Wolf Creek, Monroe county, but later moved away. William Graham, Sr., died in June 1836, in his seventy-first year. John, the second son of Col. James Graham, was killed by the Indians in 1777, further mention of which will be made in these pages. To Elizabeth, the oldest daughter, who was captured by the Indians, will also be reserved further space. David, the third son, married Mary Stodghill about the year 1795 and first settled at the mouth of Hungart’s Creek, on what is now the Woodson farm. The dwelling house now on that farm, was built by him. He was a competent land surveyor and held the office of Deputy Surveyor of Greenbrier County under Alexander Welch, as principal Surveyor when he was but little more than twenty-one years of age. He was also made Lieutenant of one of the companies of the 66th Virginia Regiment. He had three sons whose names were: James (No. 4), David and Harrison; and one daughter named Sallie, who married Jonathan Gavy Tucker, a Methodist preacher. James married Jane, a.daughter of Archibald Armstrong, a son of the Emerald Isle, and settled on what is known as the Fluke or Bacon farm. It was he who built what is now Bacon’s mills. David and Harrison moved to the west unmarried. David Graham, Sr., died in the year 1818, aged forty-six years. His widow, together with all his children moved to Schugler county, Illinois in the year 1836. Jane, the second daughter of Col. James Graham, married David Jarrett about the year 1792 and first settled near Buffalo Lick (Pence’s Springs) on the farm recently owned by the late Edwin Mays. A few years afterward they moved to Kanawha county and after a brief stay then moved to the falls of Tug River and still later they settled in the Levisa Fork of Big Sandy river in Kentucky, where their descendants still live. Good. Item #H33269
Price: $175.00