Lenoir County NcArchives Wills.....Tilghman, Wilson 1880 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sloan S. Mason http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00016.html#0003873 December 19, 2019, 5:31 pm Source: Clerk Of Courts Office Probate Court Written: 1880 Lenoir County, NC Bk. A, p. 189-195 Will of Wilson TILGHMAN-written 4 Dec. 1877, Probated: 4 March 1880 State of North Carolina Lenoir County In the Probate Court In the Matter of the Probate of the Will of Wilson Tilghman 1) Charles M. TILGHMAN and Joshua SKINNER respectfully showeth to the Court that Wilson TILGHMAN of Lenoir County died on the 5th day of January 1880, leaving a Last Will and Testament which your petitioners now presents for Probate. 2) That your Petitioners are the executors named in said Will. 3) The value of the personal estate of said deceased is about two hundred dollars. That the following are the names and residences of the legatees and such as are entitled to said testators estate, Charles M. TILGHMAN, Lenoir Co., NC Lillian SKINNER Margaret TIGLHMAN (widow) Polly CLARK, Texas Dora TILGHMAN, Lenoir Co., NC Thomas MOORE Alex GRANT Ann MOORE Wherefore your petitioners pray that said Last Will and Testament be admitted to Probate and letters Testamentary be granted to your petitioners the executors therein named. C.M TILGHMAN J. T. SKINNER Sworn to and subscribed before me March 4, 1880 Wm. W. N. HUNTER, Probate Judge State of North Carolina Lenoir County In the Probate Court A paper writing purporting to be the Last Will and Testament of Wilson Tilghman dec'd is exhibited before me the undersigned Judge of Probate for said County by Charles M. TILGHMAN and Joshua SKINNER the executors therein named and the due execution thereof by the said Wilson TILGHMAN by the oath and examination of J. Q. JACKSON and J. H. HARDY subscribing witnesses thereunto, who being duly sworn deposit and say and each for himself desposeth and sayeth that he is a subscribing witness to the paper writing now show him purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Wilson TILMAN, Dec'd. That the said Wilson TILGHMAN int he presence of this deponent subscribed his name to said paper writing which is now shown as aforesaid and which bears date of the 4th day of December A.D. 1877 and this deponent further sayeth that the said Wilson TILGHMAN did at the time of subscribing his name tot he aforesaid paper writing, declared that the same to be his Last Will and Testament, and their deponent thereupon did subscribe his name at the end of said Will and Testament as an attesting witness thereto, and at the request and int he presence of the said Wilson TILGHMAN. And this deponent further sayeth that at the said time when the said testator subscribed his name to the said Last Will and Testament and at the time of the deponents subscribing his name as an attesting witness thereto as aforesaid the said Wilson TILGHMAN was of sound mind and memory of full age to execute a will, and was not under any restraint to the knowledge information as belief of this deponent and further this deponent says not. Sworn to and subscribed before me March 4, 1880 Wm. W. N. HUNTER Probate Judge Signed: J. Q. JACKSON J. H. HARDY Lenoir County Probate Court March 4th 1880 On reading and considering the application of C.M. TIGLHMAN and J. F. SKINNER to probate a paper writing purporting to be the Last Will and Testament of Wilson Tilghman, dec'd, and to be qualified as Executors thereof according to the nomination and appointment therein made and having examined on oath, J. Q. JACKSON and J. H. HARDY the two subscribing witnesses thereto, as to the execution thereof. It is adjudged by the Court that the said paper writing and every part thereof is the Last Will and Testament of said Wilson TILGHMAN dec'd, and the same as such is ordered to be recorded and filed. And thereupon David S. DAVIS, the executor aforesaid, comes forward and takes and subscribes the following oath: State of North Carolina Lenoir County In the Probate Court We, C. M. TILGHMAN and J. F. SKINNER do solemnly swear that we believe this writing to be and contain the last Will and Testament of Wilson TILGHMAN, Deceased, and that we with will and truly execute the same by first paying his debts and then his legacies, as far as the said estate shall extend or the law will charge me and that we will well and faithfully execute the office executors, agreeable to the trust and confidence reposed in us, and according to law as help us God. Sworn and subscribed before me this 4th day of March 1880. J. F. SKINNER C. M TILGHMAN Wm. W. N. HUNTER, Probate Judge Whereupon, letters testamentary are issued to said C. M. TILGHMAN and J. F. SKINNER as executors of the said Last Will and Testament. Wm. W. H. HUNTER Probate Judge I Wilson TILGHMAN of Lenoir County State of North Carolina being of sound mind and memory but considering the uncertainty of my earthly existence do make and declare this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following: That is to say. First: That my executors hereinafter named shall provide my body a decent burial suitable to the wishes of my family an day funeral expenses and all my just debts out of any money that shall come into his hands as a part or parcel of my estate. Item 1) I loan to the use of amy beloved wife Jane TILGHMAN one half of the tract of land on which I now reside to include the upper end of the tract together with my residence and other building, one half of my household and kitchen furniture, two sows and pigs, two cows and calves, one horse (her choice) one buggy and harness, on cart and other farming tools sufficient to carry on and cultivate a one horse farm, to have and to hold the foregoing to her the said Jane TILGHMAN during her natural life or widowhood and no longer. I also give to my wife Jane provisions sufficient for one year comfortable support to be selected and laid off to her by my executors. Item 2) I give and devise to my son Charles M. TILGHMAN the tract of land on which I now reside to extend to and include all the land covered by the waters of my mill pond at high water mark subject however to the life estate of that part of the tract loaned to my wife in the preceding Item, excepting also four acres of land to include the home which Betsey TYLER build which four acres together with the privileged of getting firewood rail timber off the surrounding tract. I give and devise to Ann MOORE during her natural life and after her death then to go to my son. I also give and devise and bequeath to my son Charles M. TILGHMAN my mill mill seat all the fixtures such as rocks bolts saws log carriage and every kind of fixture belonging to the mill also one acre of land at the west end of the dam for the purpose of getting earth to mend and keep up the dam, to have and to hold the foregoing devised to him the said Charles M. TILGHMAN during his natural life and at his death to be equally divided amon his children, but if they said Charles M. TILGHMAN should die without leaving issue him surviving then in that event the same to go to and vest in my daughter Lillian wit of Joshua SKINNER she to hold the same in the same manner as the land devised to her in the following item. I also give and bequeath to my son Charles M. TILGHMAN one sorrel mare named one gray mule, my household and kitchen furniture all my farming tool subject how ever to the life estate in that part heretofore bequeath to my wife Jane TILGHMAN also my blacksmith tools, my sein and sein beach on Neuse River. Item 3) I give and devise to my daughter Lillian SKINNER wife of Joshua SKINNER all the land I own and possess on the west side of my mill (except what has been devise to my son Charles M.) and what is hereafter in the succeeding items devised to Thomas MOORE and Alexander GRANT supposed to be about one hundred and ninety acres to have and to hold the same during her natural life and after he death to be equally divided among her children, but if the said Lillian SKINNER shall die without leaving issue her surviving then in that even the same to go to and vest in amy son Charles M. in the same manner and upon the same conditions as the devise herein before made to him. Item 4) I give devise and bequeath to my illegitimate son Thomas MORE by Ann MOORE the following land situated on the west side of my mill and adjoining the land given int he preceding item to my daughter, Lillian SKINNER, Beginning at a pine in piny pond, mine and Joseph WHILEY'S corner runs with our line to the new road then with the new road to Henry MOORE'S line then with said MOORE'S line to my and Wiley DUPREE'S line, then with my line to the beginning. I also give and devise to the said Thomas MOORE that tract of land I sold to Henry MOORE, col. of about one hundred an four acres, and on which I now hold a mortgage to secure the payment of the purchase money for the same if it shall ever come into my possession absolutely by foreclosure or otherwise, If said land should not come and vest in me then I give and bequeath to the said Thomas MOORE whatever amount of money may be collected or realized out of four notes I hold against the said Henry MOORE given for said land the principal of said notes amounts I think to about $840 to have and to hold the same during his natural life and after hid death to be equally divided between his children,b ut should be due without leaving issue him surviving then the said devise and bequeath to got to and vest in the said Lillian SKINNER to be held by her int he same manner as the devise hereinbefore made to her. Item 5) I give and devise to Alexander GRANT son of Polly GRANT, ten acres of land adjoining the land sold Henry MOORE and on the Briery Branch as to include the dunghill where William CLARK once lived to have and hold during his natural life and after his death then I give and devise the same to the said Lillian SKINNER to be held as the devises hereinbefore made to her. Item 6) I give to my son Charles M. TILGHMAN the right to take and use timber off any and all the lands devised to Lillian SKINNER and Thomas MOORE to repair and keep up the mill. Item 7) I give and bequeath to my daughter Polly CLARK the sum of five dollars. Item 8) I give and bequeath to my grand daughter Dora TILGHMAN the sum of five dollars. Item 9) It is my will and desire that the rest and residue of my property after taking out the devises and bequest herein before made be sold and the debts owing one be collected and after paying my debts and cost and charges of the settlement of estate what then remains to be given to my son Thomas MOORE by Ann MOORE. I hereby constitute and appoint my son Charles M. TILGHMAN and my son in law Joshua SKINNER my lawful executors to execute this my Last Will and Testament according to the true and intent and meaning of ever part and clause thereof, and I do hereby revoke and declare utterly void all other wills and testaments by heretofore made. In Testimony where of I, Wilson TILGHMAN do hereunto set my hand and seal this the 4th day of December A.D. 1877. Wilson TILGHMAN (Seal) Signed, sealed published and declared by the said Wilson TILGHMAN to be his Last Will and Testament int he presence of us who at his request and in his presence sign our names as witnesses. J. Q. JACKSON J. H. HARDY Recorded in the office of the Probate Judge and Superior Court Clerk of Lenoir County, March 4, 1880. Wm. W. N. HUNTER Probate Judge This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 11.9 Kb