Will: Will of Reuben Jenkins-1849
Identifier: 2024.25.1
Object titles: Will of Reuben Jenkins-1849
Acquisition and Creation Dates:
Acquisition Date 1965 - 2012
Date Cataloged April 30 2024
Object Source Information: RHS Archives,RHS reference
Description: Will of Reuben Jenkins written and probated in 1849 in Rappahannock County in Will book B. pages 545-546. He left his entire estate to his wife Lucy, nee Dodson, for her lifetime except if she remarried, when she was to receive only the one third portion she would have gotten as her dower if he had died without a will. After her death, his land was to be sold and divided among his ten children.