WILL OF H.L. NAPIER
Know all men by these present that I
H.L.
Napier being of sound mind and disposing memory do make this which I
declare
to be my last will and testament here by revoking all testimony
documented,
which I may here to fore have written or signed. I give and
bequeath
to my oldest daughter Nancy a certain tract of land lying on the head
of
Trace Fork and Short Creek; this is to be hers in addition to what I
may
here after bequeath to her. I give my son William a tract of land
lying on the Trace fork of Mintsey ?? Creek on Sugar Camp Branch
containing about one hundred acres and I hereby require my son William
to pay to my wife or in the event of her death to my five girls the sum
of fifty dollars, which sum of fifty dollars is to go towards paying
what
I owe on the house place. I give to my son A.B. Napier a certain tract
of land laying on Minstey Creek below where he now lives and I require
him to pay fifty dollars in the same manner and way as I required
William
to do. I give my son Lincoln Napier a certain tract of land
laying
on Mintsey Creek and adjoining that which I give to my son A.B. Napier
requiring my son Lincoln to pay fifty dollars in the same way and
manner
as I have required of my two sons William and A.B. I desire
and give to my three, William, A.B. and Lincoln to have a lot of Poplar
Timbers that I own on the lands of R.E. Smith. I give to my wife
Kissie all of my home farm and other effects to have and enjoy the same
during her life and at her death to be equally divided between my five
girls, Nancy Napier, Sarah Jane Napier, Mourning Woods, Mollie Napier,
and Rebecca Napier. In witness where of I have set my hand 31st.
day of September 1885.
**** Transcribers note-- H.L.
Napier
was married to Kissie Sizemore (daughter of John "Rockhouse" Sizemore
and
Nancy Bowling)
submitted by Phyllis Sizemore Hefelfinger |