Should I die before I write a regular will - I desire my wife Bessie Gordon Drewry to have my Creek Farm including Nicholson field, 1/3 of my personal property and medical accounts. I, want her to be Billy's Guardian as long as she is single, if she should marry, I want Billy to have the Creek Farm and pay her Three Thousand dollars for it.
D. B. Drewry
Drewryville, Va.
January 25, 1904
A writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Dr. D. B. Drewry, deceased, was presented in this Office, and there being no subscribing witnesses thereto, W. S. Drewry and Jno N. Sebrell, Jr, was sworn and severally deposed, that they are well acquainted with the hand writing of the said D. B. Drewry, and verily believe the said writing and the name thereto subscribed, to have been wholy written by the testators own hand ___ Whereupon the said writing is ordered to be recorded as and for the last will and testament of the said Dr. D. B. Drewry, deceased.
Renouncement of D.B. Drewry Will
Whereas, W. S. Drewry, Administrator of D. B. Drewry, deceased, has offered for probate in the Clerk's Office of Southampton County, Virginia, a paper purporting to be the last Will and Testament of the said D. B. Drewry, which paper appears to be entirely in the handwriting of the said D. B. Drewry and is in words and figures as follows:
"Should I die before I write a regular will - I desire my wife Bessie Gordon Drewry to have my Creek Farm including Nicholson field, 1/3 of my personal property and medical accounts. I, want her to be Billy's guardian as long as she is single, if she should marry, I want Billy to have the Creek Farm and pay her Three Thousand dollars for it."
D. B. Drewry
Drewryville, Va.
January 25, 1904
and Whereas, the said paper was duly admitted to probate in the said Clerk's Office of Southampton County, Virginia, as and for the last will and testament of the said D. B. Drewry, on the 29th day of April 1909; and Whereas, the said Bessie Gordon Drewry, widow of D. B. Drewry, desires to renounce the provisions of the said will, or alleged will, so far as the same are applicable to her as a devisee thereunder, and to take her share of the estate of her deceased husband as is provided by law;
NOW THEREFORE, know all men by these presents, that I, Bessie Gordon Drewry, widow of the late D. B. Drewry, hereby duly and formally renounce the provisions of the said will, or alleged will, of my said late husband, D. B. Drewry, as is set forth in words and figures above and admitted to record in the Clerk's Office of Southampton County, Virginia, on the 29th day of April 1909, and hereby claim my share of the estate of said D. B. Drewry under and by the law, just as if no such will, or alleged will, had been written or admitted to probate, or as if my late husband had died intestate. This renunciation of said will, or alleged will, is in compliance with, or intended compliance with, the provisions of section 2559 of the Code of Virginia. Witness my hand and seal this 14th day of October 1909.