Delilah Wells ^{1 2}

  Research Notes:

Eighteenth child of Charles Wells.

From http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=41472357 :

Died at Sistersville, a municipality she co-founded.

Dau of Charles Wells and Elizabeth Prather. Charles had 22 children, the children were often called "{name} of the twenty-two".

m: Robert Grier

known ch:

GRIER

-Prather abt 1830 m: Sallie J. ch: Mary, Charles, John, Frank, all born in Wood Co W.VA

-William abt 1832

-T. Bertrand abt 1836 m: Sallie abt 1868, ch: William B., Graham, Lillian, Lancelot, George, Virginia.


Delilah Wells Grier and her sister, Sarah Wells McCoy, laid out the town on the land which they had inherited. Sistersville hence got its name from the seventeenth and eighteenth children of Charles Wells. The town was incorporated Feb. 2, 1839, under the name Sistersville and in 1845, the municipal government was established.


--from the Will of her father, Charles Wells, dated Dec 13 1814:

"Item 10. To my daughter Delilah Wells I give and bequeath all the residue or upper part of the aforesaid tract of Land purchased from James Caldwell whereon Samuel Scott now lives: also the one half of the aforesaid Tract I located the 9th of May last; to be divided by a straight line from the River bank between her and her sister Sarah, and her to have the lower part adjoining her other land. The two Tracts to be hers and her heirs or assigns forever."


--from the Will of her mother, Elizabeth Wells, probated Spring of 1845, in Will Book 1B pg 15:


"8th. I will and bequeath unto my daughter Delilah Grier, wife of Robert Grier, the sum of Fifteen Hundred Dollars.

...
11th. It is my will and desire that all my houses and lots in the Town of Sistersville in said county of Tyler be by my executors hereinafter named sold as soon as convenient after my decease for the best price that that can be had for the same and after payment of the above legacies I devise and bequest the residue of property to my above named four daughters to be equally devided between them, share and share alike.


12th. It is my will and I hereby bequeath to my said four daughters all my household and kitchen furniture, bedding and wearing apparel, plate and all other articles of personal property to be equally divided between them, said division to be made by themselves and in case they can not agree upon said division then it is my desire that Charles P. Wells one of my executors hereafter named divide the same."


Sources include census and cemetery records and RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: Gault and Collaterals, where copies of the Wills of Charles and Elizabeth are posted.

  Burial Notes:

According to www.findagrave.com:

Burial:

Unknown

Specifically: Buried in Sistersville, Tylor Co., probably in Wells Cem, possible in Oakwood.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Inherited: part of 400 acres where Sistersville now stands, 1815, (Sistersville), (West) Virginia, United States.

• Laid out: the town now named Sistersville, jointly with her sister Delilah, 1815, (Sistersville), (West) Virginia, United States.