Written 1878 - Probated 1879 Contributed by Cathy Blow
I Jobe Warrick Sen of Wayne county North Carolina being of sound mind and
memory but considering the uncertaintly of my earthly existence do make
and deliver this my last will and testament in maner and form following
that is to say
First that my executor (hereinafter named) shall provide for my a decent
beaural to the wishes of my relation and friends and pay all funeral
expenses together with my just debt out of the first moneys that shall
come into his hands as a part or parcel of my estate
Item I give and devise unto my wife Clairssa B Warrick on hundered and
fifty acres of land to be the west of my plantation and to include the
buildings wich I now occupy as a home to have and to hold said one hundred
and fifty acres to her during her life and after her death to James Brown
Lonza ___on Joesire Brown and their heirs forever also give unto my wife
C B Warick on clock & on feather bed and furnature her choice and all my
kitchin furnature on sorrel mare I give to her fifteen barrels of corn six
hundred pounds of pork, twenty five pounds of coffee, twenty five pounds
of sugar, on barrel flour, and ten gallons molasses these last mentioned
articles of provision I give to her for her years provision and are to be
delivered to her by my executor out of the crop and provisions I have on
hand at my death and if these are not on hand at that event my executor
is directed to furnished them and deliver them to her within forty days
after my death
Item I give and devise unto my son James Warick one hundred acres of land to be
the east of the plantation and adjoin the lands of E B Jordan and Zilpha
Warick to have and to hold the same unto him the said James Warick his
heirs forever
I give and devise unto my son John Thomas Warick and his wife Careoline
P Warick ten acres of land on which they now live that is to say I give
them all the land which is inclosed by the fence which surrounds the home
in which they at present live to be the same ten acres more or less to
have and to hold the said inclosed piece of land unto them during their
lives and the life the survivors of them and after the death of the
survivors of them I give the said land to the use of said John Thomas
Warick heirs
Item I give and devise unto my son Council Warick fifty acres of land to
be on the south of the plantation adjoing the lands of James Warick and
C J Hudson, to have and to hold the same unto him the said Council Warick
and his heirs forever
Item I give and devise unto my daughter Alcy Collier forty acres of land,
twenty acres where they now live, twenty acres east of the plantation
adjoing the land of D H Bridgers and others, to have and to hold the same
unto her the said Alcy Collier her heirs forever
Item I give and devise unto my son Council Warick all the residue of my
land not alread disposed of to have and to hold said residue of land unto
him and his heirs forever
Item I give unto my daughter Nancy Warick one feather bed and furnature
belonging thereto
Also unto my son Jobe Warick twenty five cents
Mary Hudson twenty five cents
Sarah Warick twenty five cents
Ezekiel Warick twenty five cents
Louis Warick twenty five cents
Heskiah Warick sixty dollars the same in note I hold against him
Also Benjiman Waricks heirs I give twenty five cents
William Warick heirs twenty five cents
Also my Betsy Hollomons heirs twenty five cents
Item I wish my executor to sell all my personal property except that I
have give to my wife and daughter Nancy and after paying my debts and the
charges of administration to deliver the proceeds of the sale of said
personal to my Council Warick
And lastly I do nominate constitute and appoint Elisha B Jordan my executor
to execute this my las will and testement according to the true intent and
meaning hereof, hereby, utterly revoking and declareing void all other
wills heretofore made by me
Wittness my hand and seal this the 19 day of February AD 1878
Jobe (his X mark) Warrick Seal
Witness
State of North Carolina}
A paper writing purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Job
Warrick, deceased, is this day exhibited for Probate, before the
undersigned, Judge of Probate for said County, by E B Jordan, the
Executor therein named, and the due execution thereof by the said Job
Warrick is proved by the oath and examination of Julia M Jordan and
D S Underwood the subscribing witnesses thereto. It is therefore
considered by the Court, that the said paper writing, and every part
thereof, is the last Will and Testament of the said Job Warrick and the
same is ordered to be recorded and filed. And thereupon the said E B
Jordan Executor as aforesaid, duly qualifies as such, by taking and
subscribing the oath prescribed by law.
W T Yelverton
Wayne County:--In the Probate Court
IN THE MATTER OF THE WILL OF }
Before W T Yelverton
E B Jordan being sworn, doth say : That Job Warrick, late of said
County, is dead, having first made and published his last Will and
Testament; and that E B Jordan is the executor named therein.
Further, that the property of the said Job Warrick consisting of
personal property is worth about $400.00 so far as can be ascertained
at the date of this application; and that Clarissa B Warrick, Nancy
Warrick, Job Warrick, Mary Warrick, Sarah Warrick, Ezekiel Warrick,
Louis Warrick, Hezkiah Warrick, the heirs of Benjamin Warrick, decd,
William Warrick's heirs and the heirs of Betty Holloman decd are parties
entitled under said will to the said property.
E B JordanE B Jordan
Sworn to and subscribed before me
Source: Cross Index to Wills Wayne Co, NC Vol I found at the
Date: Dec 16, 1879
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