LENOIR COUNTY, NC - WILLS - Lewis Jones, 3 Feb 1858
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RUTH TURNER PARROTT COLLECTION - NORTH CAROLINA ARCHIVES, Raleigh, NC - 
PC 820 - abstracted by Martha Mewborn Marble

WILL OF LEWIS JONES

2 November 1868 - Probate Court - LEWIS JONES late of Lenoir - last will
admitted to probate by G. W. JONES and W. A. JONES, executors

R. F. GREEN - Probate Judge

I, LEWIS JONES of State of North Carolina, County of Lenoir, being of sound
mind --- do this 3rd day of February 1858 --- make my last will ---

Item 1 - - loan to my wife MATILDA during her natural lifetime or
widowhood, my plantation on which I now reside --- then to son WILLIAM A.
JONES

Item 2 - to my son GEORGE W. JONES and my son in law ARETAS WILLIAMS a
tract lying on marsh branch to be equally divided

Item 3 -  to my son GEORGE W. JONES - 4 negroes and their increase - viz -
Margaret, Mary, Nero and Josiah

Item 4 - to my son in law ARETAS WILLIAMS - 3 Negroes and their increase -
Dinah, Julia, and Minevra

Item 5 - to my son WILLIAM A. JONES - Negros and their increase - Monroe,
Hannah

ITEM 6 - to my wife MATILDA - 4 negroes - Cuffee, York, Nicey and Jim - at
her death or remarriage said negroes to be divided equally among my three
chidlren

Item 7 - to my son WILLIAM A. JONES - one horse named Prince, two cows and
calves, 2 steers, one bed and furniture, ten head of sheep, three bee
hives, two sows and higs (sic), one half dozen chairs

Item 8 - I loan to my wife my crops, stock, furniture, provisions, tools,
to be equally divided upon her death or remarriage

Item 9 - all my money and debts to be equally divided

My two sons, WILLIAM A. and GEORGE W. JONES to be executors

WIT  SHERWOOD GRADY, A. O. GRADY


The executors came to court on 2 November 1868 - said estate worth $800.
They stated MATILDA lived in Lenoir County and ARETA WILLIAMS, now, dec
lived in JONES COUNTY


ESTATE OF LEWIS JONES

Received in Lenoir County 1 November 1874 of W. A. JONES exec, with will
annexed of the estate of LEWIS JONES, dec the sum of $22.50 in full of my
right --- title claims on demand which I have a ??? as executor of my
father's estate being my share of the proceeds arising from the estate of
my grandfather, ARTUS JONES SR.

MARGARET A. JARMAN