Kate’s notes:  Fannie S. Gilliland was a member of the William S. Gilliland family associated with the Gilliland log cabin and cemetery in Charleston Kanawha County, West Virginia. A copy of William’s will, in which Fannie is named, as well as a report on the Gillilands’ cabin and cemetery can be found in the Gilliland Trails library.

The Will of Fannie S. Gilliland, Kanawha County, West Virginia, 1925

Fannie S. Gilliland

     I, Fannie Gilliland, do hereby make and declare this to be my last will and testament that is to say:
     FIRST: I direct that all my debts and funeral expenses to be paid out of my estate.
     SECOND: I give and bequeath to Sue Buster, of Clifton Forge, Virginia, the sum of two hundred dollars; to Mrs. Mary Gilliland, of Charleston, West Virginia, the sum of Two hundred dollars; to my sister, Margaret Allen, the sum of one hundred dollars;  to Laura Wintz the sum of two hundred dollars and to Aunt  Low Dawson (colored) Fifty dollars; to Frank Gilliland, the sum of One hundred dollars; to W. F. Dudley…
[There is a notation included here between the line above and the one below:  To Dudley and Henry Gilliland one hundred dollars each]
… the sum of One hundred dollars; to my pastor, Dr. Ernst Thompson, the sum of one hundred dollars, with a request that he make use of the sum for the benefit of the First Presbyterian Church of the City of Charleston, West Virginia, of which I am a member.  It must be distinctly understood that this bequest is not to be treated as a trust, nor a direction as to the use of said money, but merely a request to so use it, to be complied with or not as he may elect. All of the foregoing bequests are made charges upon my estate, real and personal, and I direct that they be paid as soon after my death as my executor can provide the money to do so out of my estate. And that my executor shall pay out of the residue of my estate, the inheritance taxes chargeable against each of said bequests. Should either of said legatees be not living at my death, then it is my will that the sum so bequeathed to that one shall lapse and become part of my residuary estate.
     THIRD: I give, devise and bequeath to my brother John S. Gilliland, all the residue of my estate, real and personal of every kind and character of which I may die seized and possessed, or to which I may in any manner entitled, the sum to be his absolute property in fee simple.
     FOURTH:  I name and appoint my said brother john S. Gilliland, executor of my etstae under this will, and desire that he be permitted to act without bond.
     IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand this first day of May, 1925.

             The following paper was this 
day signed by Fannie Gilliland in our 
presence and was declared by her to be 
her will, and we, the subscribing witness-
ses, have each signed our names hereto, in
 the presence of said Testator and in the 
presence of each other, the day and year
 last above written.
            E. Steen
                  Address: 18 Arcade
            Ethel Haynes
                  Address:  1220 ½ Wash. St.
                                        Charleston, W. Va.

   At a regular session of the County Court of Kanawha County, continued and held for said county at the Court House thereof on Wednesday the 3rd day of June, 1925.
   A paper writing, purporting to be the last will and testament of Fannie S. Gilliland deceased, late of said county, was this day presented to the Court for probate, and the same being duly proven by the oaths of E. Steen and Ethel Haynes the subscribing witnesses thereto, the said paper writing is admitted to probate and ordered to be recorded and filed and as for the last will and testament of said decedent.

                                                                                                                                    Teste:

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Transcriber: Kate Maynard, 2013
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