Tyrrell County
In the name of God Amen: I Caroline B. Alexander, being of sound & disposing mind & memory, do make this my last will and testament and.
First - I commend my spirit unto him who gave it, trusting that it will be received in mercy: and I give my body to the earth, desiring my executor hereinafter named to provide for it a Christian burial.
As to my worldly affairs, my will & desire are -That if Dr. Edward Ransone my son-in-law shall faithfully pay a certain note for seven hundred & sixty - six dollars given by him to me, as guardian of my children Abner & Fanny Alexander, then my desire is that all my estate, after all my debts are paid and all expenses deducted, shall be equally distributed between my children Martha Simmons. Josephene Ransone, Abner Alexander & Fanny Alexander, to them & their heirs forever. But if said Dr. Ransone shall not pay the said note without giving my children trouble, then my desire is that he & his wife shall receive no part of my estate beyond seven hundred & sixty -six dollars, but that all the residue shall go to my other children.
Secondly- I desire that Edmund C. Brabble shall be executor of this my last testament & that he shall carry out all its provisions according to their true intent
Signed, Sealed & Published as the last will & testament of Caroline B. Alexander on the l3th February 1861, in the presence of
Charles Brickhouse
Russell Armstrong
Caroline B. her X mark Alexander
State of North Carolina
Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions
Tyrrell
County
April Term 1861.
On motion -a paper writing purporting to be the last will & testament of Caroline B. Alexander was propounded for probate by E. C. Brabble, the executor therein named, and the due execution thereof being proved by the oath of Russell Armstrong, one of the subscribing witnesses thereto, the same is admitted to probate & ordered to be recorded, and it is further ordered that the executor therein named having now duly qualified, receive letters testamentary from this court.
Eli Spruill Clk.
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