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Tyrrell County
Book 4, page 409
Dated 26 August 1920
I, Mark Majette being of sound and disposing mind and memory, but considering the certainty of death do make, declare and publish this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking and declaring utterly void all other wills and testaments by me heretofore made.
Item - I wish my body to be buried in a place and manner as my beloved wife shall desire and that there be erected at my grave a impretentious monument. If I shall be a member of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics at the time of my death, I desire that the money and benefits resulting therefrom be applied to the payment of the expenses from my burial and monument
Item - I give and bequeath to my dearly beloved mother Mrs. Virginia Majette One Thousand Dollars to be paid in a lump sum or in installments as she may prefer.
Item - I give and bequeath to my brother J. Hutchings Majette Five Hundred Dollars and request him to expend the same for the benefit of his son and my namesake and nephew Mark Majette, but this request is not a condition of this gift.
Item - I give and bequeath to my nephew and namesake Mark Majette son of my brother heretofore mentioned, my watch and chain and every other article of jewelry ever worn by me which may be in my possession at the time of my death. I also give and bequeath to him my collection of old coins.
Item - I give and bequeath to my friend C. W. Tatum my abstracts of title of Tyrrell County lands, both notes of title and bound abstracts of title.
Item - I give and bequeath to my friend W. L. Whitley the law books constituting my Law Library.
Item - I give and bequeath to my friend J. Gilbert Brickhouse Fifty Dollars and request him to expend the same for the benefit of his son Mark Brickhouse.
Item - I give and bequeath to my friend Nelson Rhodes Fifty Dollars and request him to expend the same for the benefit of his son Mark Rhodes.
Item - I direct and empower my personal representative to expend for the benefit of Mark Davenport, son of my friend Levi Davenport, Fifty Dollars.
Item - I direct my personal representative to pay out of the first moneys coming into her hands belonging to my estate, all just debts by me owing at the time of my death and my thye cost of my burial and monument at my grave.
Item - All of my estate remaining, I give, devise and bequeath to my beloved wife Bettie S. Majette including real, personal and mixed property and everything that can be embraced by the word "Property" belonging to me at the time of my death.
Item - I hereby nominate and appoint my beloved wife Bettie S. Majette my executrix and personal representative of my estate to perform and execute this my last Will and Testament and to act without bond.
This in my own handwriting August 26th 1920.
Mark Majette (Seal)
State of North Carolina
Tyrrell County
Superior Court
A paperwriting without subscribing witness, purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Mark Majette, deceased, is exhibited for probate in open Court by the widow and executrix Mrs. Bettie S. Majette, she being the executrix therein named. It is thereupon proved by the oath and examination of Wilford L. Whitley and the said Mrs. Bettie S. Majette that the said Will was found in a safe among the valuabl papers and effects of the said Mark Majette after his death. It is further proved by the oath and examination of three competent and credible witnesses to wit: B. B. Jones, Joseph E. Reynolds and H. L. Swain that they are acquainted with the handwriting of the said Mark Majette having often seen him write and that they verily believe that the nameof the testator subscribed to the said Will, and the said Will itself and every part thereof is in the handwriting of the said Mark Majette.
It is therefore considered and adjidged by the Court that the said paper writing and every part thereof is the last Will and Testament of the said Mark Majette and the same is ordered to be recorded and filed.
Subscribed and sworn to before me;
Dated this the 2nd day of December, 1920.
W. N. Norman
Clerk of Superior Court
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