PATRICK COUNTY, VA - WILLS - Thomas N. Shelton, 5 Dec 1883
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Thomas N. Shelton
Will Book 8, page 143
Patrick Co VA
transcribed by Deborah Shelton Wood [varoots@stargate.net]

Sheltons Mill Dec 5 1883

I, Thomas N. Shelton laboring under bodily affliction and being of sound
mind, make this my last will and testament and bequeath my property as 
follows, viz
I will make my homeplace upon which [I] now reside, to my wife and my son,
Robert H. Shelton to have and hold in possession as long as they both shall
live.
If my wife should die first or vice versa, Robt. should die first leaving
no heirsthen the living parties to have and hold possession, but if Robt. 
should die firstand leave heirs, then my wife to have the property as long as 
she lives and ather death the property to revert to Robts. heirs if any, if 
none then the property to be equally divided [by] my other two sons Peter and 
A. C. Shelton.  I also wish my wife and son Robt to have all my household and 
kitchen.  I give the Mill to my three sons, Peter, A.C. and Robt. and when it 
wants repairing, I give the sorrel mare to Peter and A.C. Shelton and the
balance ofmy personal property I bequeath to Robt. and his mother so long as 
they both shall live and at their death to revert to Peter and A.C. Shelton.

I give all of my other children Mary King, Susan Shelton, Araminta Shelton
and Ruth Fulcher, ten dollars each.

witnesses Thomas N. Shelton
John T. Bishop
R. H. Goode? (not clear)

In Patrick County Court May ? 1892
The last Will and Testament of Thos. N. Shelton was this day
presented in court proven by the oath of John T. Bishop
one of the subscribing witnesses, therto and ordered to be recorded.
Copy-Teste
Wm. W. Moir D. C.