Will of Willis S. Jones - 1855

Original Will, on file in Raleigh, NC Archives CR 073.801

I Willis S Jones of County of Orange
and State of North Carolina Knowing
the certainty of death and uncertainty
of life.  In the name of God to make
and publish this my last Will and
testament in the manner and form
following that is to say that my body
be decently buried suitable to the wishes
of my friends and relatives and that
all funeral expenses together with my
Just debts howsoever and to whomsoever
owing be paid as early after my decease
as practicable.  I give and devise unto
my nieces and Nephews children of my
deceased sister Martha Bowling namely
Lucretia Bowling, Mary Bowling, Nicholas
Bowling, Elizabeth F. Bowling, Rebecca J.
Bowling, Nancy L. Bowling, Jerome G.
Bowling and Martha A. B. Bowling
my entire estate of every description what
-sover and also any and all estate or est-
-ates that may hereafter accrue to me to
be equally divided amongst them
their heirs &c. In testimony whereof I
the said Willis S. Jones have here
-unto set my name and seal this 17th
day of December A.D. 1855

signed sealed published
& declared in the presence of     W. W. Jones (seal)

J J.[?] Satterfield
James N Rumsford




Transcription by Ben Franklin of Durham, NC <benz2@earthlink.net>
2 Dec 2009.  Please credit me if you use this. This information is in 
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