I will and bequeath unto my Daughter Elizabeth all my personal property of whatever kind or description including all money on hand or owing to me. I also will to my said Daughter Elizabeth the control and rents and profits of my home farm during the life of my son Isaac and two years after His death provided she survives him.
It is my Will that my Daughter Elizabeth have the control, rents, and profits of the part of my farm herein after devised to my son Isaac, during his life, and in case she survives him, said land to go to her, Elizabeth , her heirs in fee simple forever- in that event giving to my Daughter Elizabeth the right of selling or willing the same as she may think proper.
If my son Isaac survives my daughter Elizabeth, it is my wish that my daughter Mary Hedge shall take him and maintain and support him during his life, and she or whoever takes care of and supports him shall have the control and rents and profits of the part of my farm gerein after devised to my said son Isaac: and if the rents and profits of said land shall not be sufficient to pay said Mary, or whoever takes care of and supports said Isaac, a reasonable compensation per annum then said Isaac's land shall be valued by three discreet and disinterested men, and the annual rents of said land shall also be valued, then to my said daughter Mary, or whoever takes care of and supports said Isaac, may take said land at the valuation as aforesaid, if he or she thinks proper, and after allowing said Isaac for the assessed value as annual rent for his land, whatever excess over above the rents of his land it requires to support said Isaac shall be applied each year as a payment for his land aforesaid, and if the debt against said Isaac for his support at his death shall not be sufficient to pay for all his land, then the person supporting and taking care of him may take so much of his land at the aforesaid assessed value as will pay the debt against said Isaac for his support, and no more, if he or she thinks proper.
If the person who maintains and supports said Isaacshall choose to take said Isaac's land, they shall execute their, or his or her bonds to my Executor herein named to be paid annually as aforesaid as long as said Isaac lives, and if at his death there is a balance due and unpaid, then that balance I will to my Daughter Elizabeth, her heirs or devisees, to be paid over to her or heirs or devisees in one year after said Isaac death.
If however the person so supporting said Isaac should not, at his death, have a debt against him sufficiently large to pay for the whole of his land and shall choose to take so much of said land only as their debt against him for his support will pay, then in that event I will my daughter Elizabeth, her heirs or Devisees the residue or balance of said Isaac land in fee simple to be sold or disposed of as she may think proper, by Will or otherwise. If my daughter Elizabeth survives my son Isaac, two years after said Isaac's death, I will that my land be divided into lots of equal value among my children and Grand children, the Grand children taking such part only as the father or mother under this will, if living, would be entitled to. I will that my daughter Elizabeth's part of my land be laid off ?? to embrace the Homestead or Mansion House on said farm with the adjoining buildings, charging her nothing for said buildings, and giving her full authority at anytime after my death, whether a division of my farm has been made or not, to sell or will her part of said land herein devised to her. I wish my son Isaac's share of said land, and the share of my Grand children. the children of my daughter Susan late Susan McKinney to be laid off adjoining to my said daughter Elizabeth lot. If my son Isaac survives my daughter Elizabeth, I wish my farm divided as aforesaid as soon as possible.
I desire my daughter Elizabeth to take care of and comfortably support and maintain said Isaac and pay all just debts against my estate. I hereby appoint my daughter Elizabeth T. Bukey my true and lawful Executrix to this my last Will and Testament.
In Testimoney whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 10th day of August 1850.
Drusilla Bukey (seal)
acknowledged in presence of
A. L. Kinnaird
A. S. Marshall
David J. Hazlerigg
Codicil
I Drusilla Bukey hereby constitute & make this codicil to this my last will. That is to say, I will and give to my daughter Elizabeth T. for and during the period of her naturaql life the entire and whole of the rents, use and possession of this my home farm, and I hereby order that the division of my estate which would have taken place by the other provisions of this my Will shall not be made during the natural life of my Daughter Elizabeth T. & that her rights and interests & duties shall be & continue the same as they are designated and set out in the former part of my will, except as it is provided for in this codicil.
Drusilla Bukey (seal)
Wood County, Va
Feb. 13th, 1854
Attest
A. L. Kinnaird
David J. Hazlerigg
A. S. Marshall
At a Court held for Wood County at the Court House thereof on the 15th day of May1854 this last Will and Testament of Drusilla Bukey dec'd with the codicil thereto annexed (?) was this day presented in Court and proven by the oaths of David I. Hazlerigg & A. S. Marshall, two of the subscribing witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorder.
Teste H. H. Dils cwl
Hesekiah Bukey
| Birth: | Apr. 25, 1770 |
| Death: | Dec. 31, 1827 |
Drusilla Tomlinson Bukey
| Birth: | Apr. 17, 1777 |
| Death: | Feb. 22, 1854 |
Betty Elisabeth Bukey
(Elizabeth Tomlinson Bukey)
| Birth: | Aug. 27, 1800 |
| Death: | Dec. 1, 1886 |
Cause of Death: Old Age
Isaac Bukey
| Birth: | unknown |
| Death: | Jun. 23, 1857 |
s/o H & D | |
Grave moved from the Bukey Cemetery in 1964 by the state because of I-77 construction.
(WV vitals list death as July 29, 1857, Age: 44)
Cause of Death: Scroffula (tuberculosis)
All burials are in Riverview Cemetery, Williamstown, Wood County, WV
