Posted by Susan Ulfers Campbell on November 01, 19101 at 16:30:39:
A will of personal property, I James Bowlby of Monongalia County State of Virginia do hereby make my last will and testament in manner and form following that is to say, 1st I give to my daughter Williampee Smith in Ohio one hundred and fifty dollars, 2dly I give unto my daughter in law Elizabeth Bowlby in Ohio one hundred and fifty dollars and unto the children of Samuel C. Bowlby deceased ten dollars, 3dly I give unto my son Robert L. Bowlby ten dollars, 4thly I give unto Rebecca Garrison and Lydia Bowlby daughters of Robert L. Bowlby Seventy five dollars each. 5thly I give unto my daughter Caty Smyth ten dollars, 6thly I give unto Lydia and Maria Smyth daughters of Caty Smyth Seventy five dollars each. 7th I give unto the children of my daughter Rebecca Lazzell ten dollars to be divided equally among them and paid as they come of age. 8thly I give and desire that Williampee Smyth and Elizabeth Bowlby in Ohio may have what clothes I may leave and what their mother Lydia Bowlby left, 9th I give unto my son John H. Bowlby all the money and property that may remain of my estate after the money is (colected?) and the above named heirs paid their portion, and lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint my son John H. Bowlby Executor of this my last will and testament here by revoking all other or former wills or testement by me hereto fore made. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 28th day of March in the year 1842.
James Bowlby (Seal)
Signed sealed published and declared as and for the last will and testament of the above named Jas. Bowlby in presence of us.
John Stephens
Attest
George Alexander
At a court held for Monongalia County June term 1842 a paper writing purporting to be the last will and testament of James Bowlby dec'd was this day produced in court proven by the oath of George Alexander one of the subscribing witnesses thereto and by proof of said George Alexander who swears to the hand writing of John Stephens the other subscribing witness who is out of the county in parts unknown the said Alexander having also seen the said Stephens subscribe his name to said will.
A copy Teste: W. T. Willey, Clerk