This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jones, Henderson, Riley, Sharp, Culbertson, Douglas, May, Little, Copeland Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2g.2ADE/1053 Message Board Post: Will of “Elder” Jame Jones in Johnson Co., IL - Pg. 129 (as transcribed by Karen Riley Hall 3-03-2006) E-mail dkhall85@netscape.com In the name of God I being in good health and in my proper senses yet life being uncertain when it shall please God to remove me from this world I give and resign my soul body and spirit into his hands, I also give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Elizabeth all my personal property also the use of the plantation whereon we now live with a ll the appurtenances there unto belonging for the purpose of her comfortable support and to raise and school her children which thing I wish not to be neglected and that as they grow up a strict account be kept of the amount of property they recieve as has been done heretofor – which accounts stands as follows, to wit, Henry Jones $ 88, James Jones $ 60, Bennett Jones $ 89 – Milton Jones $ 50, William Jones $ 50 all this to be reducted out of their legacy the same rule I wish to be observed with the rest of the children __ The property bequeathed to my beloved Elizabeth to be hers whilst she lives or remains my widow af! ter which time and the paying of all just debts the property to be sold and an equal distribution to be made lawful and just This is my will and testament this 27th of November 1832 James Jones