CHATHAM COUNTY, NC - COURT - J. S. Thomas Court Papers
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Court Papers supporting J. S. Thomas' Will 

NORTH CAROLINA ) In the Superior Court - Before

Chatham County ) Clerk

A paper-writing purporting to be the last will and testament of J. S. 
Thomas, deceased, is exhibited before me the undersigned, Clerk of the 
Superior Court for said County, by J. D. Thomas the executor therein 
mentioned, and the due execution of the said J. S. Thomas is proved by the 
oath and examination of R. J. Yates nd O. C. Coton, the subscribing 
witnesses thereto, who, being duly sworn, doth depose and say, and each 
for himself deposeth and saith, that he is a subscribing witness to the
paper-writing now shown him, purporting to be the last will and testament 
of J. S. Thomas; that the said J. S. Thomas in the presence of this 
deponent, subscribed his name at the end of said paper-writing now shown 
as aforesaid, and which bears date of the 16th day of Jan., 1919.

And the deponent further saith, that the said J. S. Thomas the testator 
aforesaid, did, at the time of subscribing his name as aforesaid, declare 
the said paper-writing so subscribed by him and exhibited, to be his last 
will and testament, and this deponent did thereupon subscribe his name at 
the end of said will as an attesting witness there to, and to the request 
and in the presence of the said testator. And this deponent further saith, 
that at the said time when the said testator subscribed his name to the 
said last will as aforesaid, and at the time of deponent's subscribing his 
name as attesting witness thereto, as aforesaid, the said J. S. Thomas was 
of sound mind and memory, of full age to execute a will, and was not under 
any restraint to the knowledge, information or belief of this deponent: 
And. further these deponents say not.

Severally sworn and subscribed    ) 	(Signed) O. C. Cotten (Seal)
this 15th day of Nov. 1922, before) 	(Signed) R. J. Yates (Seal)
me.				  )

J. Dewey Dorsett

Clerk of Superior Court

NORTH CAROLINA, In the Superior Court.

Chatham County.

It is therefore considered and adjudged by the Court that the said paper-
writing, and every part thereof, is the last will and testament of J. S. 
Thomas, deceased, and the same with the foregoing examination and this 
certificate are ordered to be recorded and filed.

J. Dewey Dorsett,

Clerk of Superior Court

This 15th day of Nov. 1922.