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QUILLY M. ZINN -- Last Will & Testament
Copy of original document submitted by Yvonne Haines
Transcribed by Melanie Fouse {transcriber notes in brackets}

___ day of March 1868 WB 1 p. 455 Paid Q.M. Zinn To Ls {unsure of this} Last Will & Testament	Teste J.M. Woods Recorder In the name of God Amen: I Quilly M. Zinn of the County of Ritchie and State of West Virginia in being of Sound mind and deposing Memory make and pub lish this my last will and n
Testament. 1st I will and bequeath to my wife Lucy Ann Zinn and My Son Marion B Zinn all my real and personal Estate. The real Estate consisting in the farm upon which I now reside, containing Sixty Six and two thirds acres, and a tract of Thirty two and one third acres joining the Said Sixty and two thirds acres, each Situated on the Middle Fork of Hughes River Ritchie County. The personal Estate consisting of all my household and kitchen furniture, farming utensils, Horses, Cattle, Sheep, hogs and poultry and all notes and accounts due me provided they pay all my my debts and funeral Expenses, and and they comply with conditions that be hereinafter mentioned. 2^nd In Case My wife and Son Marion B. Zinn desire to divide the estate I will and bequeath my wife one third of both real and personal Estate, So long as She lives or remains my widow. The real estate to be So divided that her third will include the house in which I now live, the garden the yard, the Orchard and all the out buildings, and my son Marion B. the other two thirds with conditions that will be hereinafter mentioned. 3^rd After the death of My wife or after She ceases to be my widow I will and bequeath all the real and personal estate which She may die or Marry possessed of Shall descend to my son Marion B. Zinn {Zinn is marked out here} provided my Son Shall live with her and provide for her, So as to render her comfortable. But in case my Son Marion B. Should not do so, I will and bequeath to any other one of my children, that will be hereinafter named the Said on third 4^th I will and bequeath to my other children as follows to wit: To Mary M. Nutter Twenty five dollars to be paid on demand after the first day of March 1869. To Cortez L Twenty five dollars. ($25 00/100) Victory, Twenty {this is marked out} Trist Newton, Wesley W, Palestine, Noah, Columbia A, Martha D, Ulysses S, Grant, Fifty dollars each to be paid on demand after they become of Age by my son Marion B. But in Case my son Marion B. does not, or does in part comply with the fore-going and wishes not to comply with my desire further, I will and bequeath to any other one of my children that will pay to him one hundred dollars. ($100 00/100) and refund to him what he has paid to those who have demanded and have received the Said two thirds. In witness whereof I have hereunto Signed my name and affixed my seal this 20^th day of March 1868.
Witnesses, Wm B. Zinn Ezekiel Kelly	Fifty cent Inter Revenue Stamp here cancelled Fifty cent Internal Revenue Stamp
Codicil
I Quilly M. Zinn make and publish this as a Codicil to my last will and testament to wit: I desire that my son Marion B Shall act as My executor in my last will and Testament and that he perform the duties as Such without giving bond for the performances of Said office.
Witnesses, Wm B. Zinn Ezekiel Kelly	Q.M. Zinn

Recorders Office Ritchie County West Virginia
	August 12^th 1868
The Last will and Testament of Q.M. Zinn was this day produced before me in my office and there being no objection to the probate of said will Thereupon William B. Zinn and Ezekiel Kelly the Subscribing witnesses thereto duly appeared before me in my office and being sworn fully proved Said will Thereupon Said will is fully admitted to record
	Teste J M Woods Recorder Ritchie County West Va.
A true Copy of the Order from the Order Book of the office aforesaid.
	Teste J.M. Woods Recorder
State of West Virginia Ls {same as above. Unsure of this}
	I J.M.Woods Recorder
Of Ritchie County in the State aforesaid do certify that the fore going is a true copy of The Last will of and Testament of Q.M. Zinn, together with the codicil, and certificate of Proof __ __ {unsure…looks like v c} thereto annexed and I further certify that Said will had on it when admitted to probate one dollars worth of Internal Revenue Stamps Cancelled. Given under my hand this 19^th day of August 1868
	J.M. Woods Recorder