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Book 4, page 347
Dated 21 March 1907
I Charles Hill Sr. of Tyrrell County, North Carolina being of sound mind and memory, do make, publish and declare this to be my last Will and Testament. To - wit:
Item - All my just debts and funeral expenses shall be first fully paid.
Item - I give devise and bequeath to my son Walter Hill all of my real estate the same being my home whereon I now live adjoining the lands of J. D. Overton, Mrs. J. K. P. Owens, J. W. Woodard and others for his lifetime and then to his heirs.
Item - My beloved wife Joicy P. Hill shall hold and stay in possesion of all of my land for her lifetime.
Item - My son Walter Hill shall pay over to the rest of my children as follows: to my daughter Harrette Phelps $75.00, my daughter Annie Owens $75.00, my daughter Lieueasa McCleese's heirs $75.00, my daughter Carolina Griswool's heirs $75.00 providing said heirs are living at my death, to my son Ellis Hill's heirs $75.00.
Lastly - I hereby nominate and appoint my son Walter Hill to be my executor of this last my last Will and Testament hearby revolking and declaring utterly void all other wills and testaments by me heretofore made..
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this the 21st day of March 1907.
Chas. Hill (Seal)
Signed sealed, published and declared by the said Charles Hill Sr. to be his last Will and Testament in the presence of us, who at his request and in his presence and in the presence of each other do subscribe our names as witnesses thereof.
W. W. Sawyer
C. M. Sawyer
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State of North Carolina
Tyrrell County
Superior Court
A paper-writing hereto purporting to be the Last Will and Testament of Charles Hill Sr. deceased, is exhibited before me by Walter Hill the executor therein named and thereupon proven by the oath and examination of W. W. Sawyer one of the subscribing witnessess thereto: and S. D. Wynne both who being duly sworn, doth depose and say, that each for himself, that the said Charles Hill Sr. signed said paper-writing in the presence of each and declared the same to be his last Will and Testament. The deponents futher said that at the time the said B. S. Spencer subscribed his name he was of sound mind and memory and of full age to execute a will and was not under any restraint to the knowledge, information or belief of this deponent. Affiant futher swears that C. M. Sawyer, the other subscribing witness to the said Will signed the same as a witness in the presence of the affiant, and that the affiant saw him sign the same, and that the said C. M. Sawyer is now dead. S. D. Wynne says that he is well aquainted with the handwritting of C. M. Sawyer having often seen him write and that the name of C. M. Sawyer subscribed as a witness to the said will is in the genuine handwriting of the said C. M Sawyer.
W. W. Sawyer
S. D. Wynne
Severally sworn and subscribed
Before me the 2nd day of March 1917
W. N. Norman
Clerk Superior Court
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