This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cannefax Classification: Will Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IKB.2ACE/1456 Message Board Post: Radford Cannefax's will is now at the Greene County Archives, 1126 Boonville, Springfield, MO 65802. Phone: 417-868-4021. Will Book 2:20-22. Following is an abstract: Radford Cannefax of Greene County, State of Missouri, wrote his will on 2 July 1839 and bequeathed to beloved wife, Anne, all the property and money due him. His son Joseph Cannefax was given negro boys Reuben and young Peter and forty acres of land. Son John Cannefax was to receive negro boy Isham, a horse and enough money to buy forty acres at government price. Son Calvin Cannefax was bequeathed one negro boy, Jim, as his full portion. Daughters Nancy Stockton and Polly Stockton were each to have $100. Son Benjamin W. Cannefax received negro boys Henry and Gilbert. Son Chesley Cannefax’s bequest was two negro boys Nat and Andrew and a negro girl Sarah. Daughter Jane Ingram received two negro girls, Polly and Philis. Daughter Elizabeth Steele was given negro woman Anica and a negro boy Daniel. The two old negroes Peter and Esther were to live with any of the children they pleased. If they chose not live with any of them, they were to be sold with the proceeds going into the estate. These bequests were to be distributed at the death or expiration of his wife’s widowhood. His wife and son Benjamin were to be executors and Joseph Rountree and Richard Steele witnessed the will. It was proved 27 October 1843.