CHATHAM COUNTY, NC - WILLS - Horace H. Jordan, 17 Jan 1877
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Record of Wills, film C.022.80003, Vol. E. pg. 152, 153.

I Horace H. Jordan of the County of Chatham and 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:
Item first, I give and devise to my beloved wife Winey C. Jordan a
lifetime right in the tract of land whereon I now live, together with
all the personal property and moneys on hand except to the amount of
three hundred dollars in the Store given and devised by my heretofore to
my eldest son James M. Jordan in Consideration of his having remained
with and worked in the family for three years, after becoming twenty one
years of age, which exception I want to apply to all my boys, that if
any one of them shall remain with and work in the family after he is
twenty one years of age, then he shall have the amount of one Hundred
Dollars per year of the personal property over and above an equal
division fo the same among my children; and if any one of them shall
leave the homestead and family before he becomes twenty one years of age
then he shall have to the amount of one hundred dollars per year for
that time deducted from his share of an equal division of the personal
property, the aforesaid personal property and moneys on hand to be at
the disposal of my wife, subject to the Exceptions named to be used for
the needs and comfort of herself and the children under age, and for her
to distribute equally of the same to the children that are of age, as
she and they may think best; in a word to act in my place in regard to
the family and property, to have and to hold to her the said Winey C.
Jordan, for and during the term of her natural life or widowhood, but if
she shall marry again, and, when she dies I want all the personal
property, subject to the exceptions heretofore named ot be divided
equally among all my children, to share and share alike, with the
further Exception that my daughters Mary Melissa Parker, Amanda B.
Jordan  Kary? Jordan and Frances A. Jordan each have one hundred dollars
in money over and above an equal division; and if she shall marry again
she can no longer have a lifetime right in my lands.
Item Second. I give and devise to my eldest sons James M. Jordan and
Adolphus C. Jordan all my tract of land known as the Bowen tract, to
have and to hold to them and their heirs in fee simple forever.
Item third, I give an devise to my two youngest sons Marion Jasper
Jordan and Henry H. Jordan all my lands on Bloody Creek subject to the
encumbrance of my wife divised in a former item of this, my will; and if
Marion Jasper Jordan shall wish to build on the land, I want the Estate
to assist him, to have to hold to him and their heirs, in fee simple
forever.
Item fourth. I give and devise to my daughters Mary Melissa Parker,
Amanda B. Jordan, Kary Jordan, and Frances A. Jordan equally my tract of
land known as the piney woods tract with the privileges of any one and
all of the family getting timber for lumber off said land for useful
building purposes at any time but for not other purposes.
Item fifth. If any or all of my daughters yet unmarried shall remain
unmarried, I give and devise to them a home in all the boys lands and
maintenance therefrom so long as they remain unmarried.
In witness whereof I the said HARRIS H. Jordan do hereunto set my hand
and seal this the seventeenth day of January, One Thousand Eight hundred
and Seventy Seven.
                                                        H. H. Jordan 
{Seal}
In the presence of
George C. Underwood
Maloy Jordan
Codicil:
Item Sixth.  In Case Winey? C. Jordan shall marry again or at her
decease I appoint James M. Jordan my oldest son Executor of this my last
will and testament.
In witness whereof I the said Horace H. Jordan do hereunto set my hand
and seal this the twenty first day of November, One thousand Eight
hundred and Seventy Seven.
H. H. Jordan {Seal)
in the presence of 
George C. Underwood
Maloy Jordan

Probate Court February 21st 1878
A paper writing purporting to be the last will and testament of H. H.
Jordan dec'd was this day offered for probate by Winey C. Jordan widow
of said H. Hl Jordan, the Execution of said will was duly proved by the
oath and examination of George C. Underwood and Maloy Jordan the
subscribing witnesses thereto, and said will was admitted to probate,
and ordered to be recorded and filed.
(my note: another line was written below the above but, it has been
marked out and is not readable)
     
                Wm. F. Foushee C.S.C.
                & Judge of Probate.


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