Significant to the history of the Jackson/Riley Family Medora’s death changed the possibilities for this former slave, with the stroke of a pen, he became a landowner. Medora’s last will and testament found in the Jefferson County Chancery Clerk’s office gave …show more content…
Medora wrote in her last will: “I give and bequeath to my faithful servant Jackson Delaney 50 acres in the Norris field”. In addition, Eviline receives an equal amount of land in the Norris Field adjacent to the home of Delaney. Her gifting was not only to those faithful servants Delaney and Eviline, but to the church established by the residents of Poplar Hill. Medora wrote: “It is my wish that the five acres of land given to the African Church by me shall belong to them as long as the same is used for the purpose of a church