CHATHAM COUNTY, NC - WILLS - John Clark - 1864

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Chatham Co., NC, Record of Wills - Vol. D, 1858-1866
NC State Archives Film # C.022.80003, pg. 141

"The last will and testament of John clark, deceased having been lost
and an order of the County court of Chatham November Term 1864 having
been made upon proof before said Court of the Loss of said will and 
said Court having declared that in pursuance of Law the witnesses to 
said will write out the contents of said will- therefore we Joseph
Yarbrough and Milley G. Riggsbee of Chatham Co. State of North Carolina
witnessed the last will and testament of John Clark deceased do declare
and publish that said John Clark did execute his last will and 
testament in form as follows to wit; said John clark gave one half of 
his land to his two sons John and Winship and one pine chest all the 
rest of his property to his wife Winney during her lifetime and at her 
death the landed property to be equally divided between Wesley, Thomas
and Joseph and directed his debts to be paid out of his Estate. In 
testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hand as witnesses this 14th 
day of Nov., 1864.
Joseph Yarborugh (Seal)
Milley G. Riggsbee (Seal)

(My note: John's wife Winney is listed as Winney Lea, in the 1850 
census of Chatham. It looks as if Lea is her last name. Don't know why 
it would be so, instead of Clark. Their children are listed as J. 
Wesley, b. abt 1837; Henry (called Harry, later), b. abt 1838; Thomas, 
b. abt 1840; Joseph, b. abt 1844; Jackey, (female) b. abt 1846; and 
Fanney, b. abt 1852. These two girls are not named in the inheritance. 
Winship Clark in the 1850 census was b. abt 1827. The sons John and 
Winship are probably sons by his first wife, Margaret, (was she a 
Caldwell?) who died in 1834. He had other sons by her (Jefferson, 
George W. and Alexander) and why they are not listed in the
inheritance, I don't know. I "think" this may be John Jefferson Clark, 
the son of Alexander and Phoebe Jefferson Clark. Their son John 
Jefferson was b. abt 1782, which fits with the age given by this John 
in 1850 as 66 (b. 1784) Please contact me if, you have any further 
information on this family, to prove or disprove my tentative 
assertions.
Sue Ashby