I first found Richard in the will of Moses McCarley, 1845.
Richard OVERSTREET was a resident of Indiana. The following documents an R. G. OVERSTREET (Richard?).
Possibly, from the DAR Cemetery Listings Book of Owen Co.
Riverside Cemetery, Section P
Overstreet, R. G. , 18 Dec 1827 - 8 Feb. 1881
Overstreet, Anna J. w/o R. G. 12 July 1830-15 Feb. 1853
Overstreet, Elizabeth J. 4 Aug. 1819-25 Sept 1901
Old Riverside Cemetery, Spencer, Indiana
Overstreet, Daniel Walter, s/o R. G. & E. J., d. Oct 1859 aged 6m 25d
1860 Indiana Census CD
OVERSTREET:
R.G. age 32 b. KY
Elizabeth age 37 b. IN
George E age 8 b. IN
Wm age 2 b. IN
From this R. G. first married Anna J. ____, who died in 1853. They had at least one child:
George E., b about 1852,
Between 1853 and 1858 R. G. then married Elizabeth J. ____. Elizabeth and R. G. had
Wm, b abt 1858 &
Daniel Walter, b Apr 1859, d Oct 1859.
On http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?ti=0&gsi=95023900&f0=OVERSTREET&f1=RICHARD&db=gedind&prox=-1 we find Richard G. OVERSTREET and a marriage to Anna J HENSLEY.
The 1850 Owen Co, IN census shows Richard G. OVERSTREET age 22, occupation appears to be tailor. Nancy OVERSTREET, age 47, his mother is living with him.
From the
Owen Co. Abstracts of Wills
Richard G. Overstreet, (of Spencer)
written 21 Feb 1880, filed 10 Feb 1881,
Will Bk 3 pg 117
-to wife Elizabeth J. Overstreet - all the rents and profits accruing from real estate and interest on all money, notes or accounts; all household furniture.
-to my sons: George E. Overstreet, William I. Overstreet, Richard R. Overstreet, and my daughter Ann E. Overstreet - all real estate and personal property subject to the following conditions:
1) executor will cancel the note and mortgage against George E. Overstreet's house and lot and let him have his proportion after he has abstained entirely from intoxication for five years, otherwise hold the property for his children, allowing him
only the interest;
2) cancel the account against William I. Overstreet:
3) furnish Richard R. Overstreet with means to complete his college course without charge on his proportion.
--to Ann E. Overstreet - outlot containing 1 and 1/60 hundred acres adjoining town, now occupied as family residence, over and above her proportion.
Exec. - William I. Overstreet
Wit. - John S Beem, A. J. Newsom of Spencer
Widow's statement
--widow takes her interest in the estate under the law and not under the will
