Edgecombe County NcArchives Wills.....Hawkins, Elza 1837 ************************************************ 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: Tommy Colbert clycolbert@aol.com June 21, 2011, 10:50 am Source: N C Archives Written: 1837 Hawkins, Elza, will date 16 June 1828, recorded Feb Ct. 1837, being of sound mind and memory - - beloved wife Gracy Hawkins- all property for her natural life or widowhood, if she dies before my youngest child reaches 21 years of age, land and negroes rented out until youngest child reaches 21 and then all property to be equally divided between them all, all boys to have 2 years of schooling out of my estate (between ages of 12 and 18) and not to be bound out. It is my will that my oldest daughter (Missy) Harris not to receive any of my estate as I have given her $100 which I think is an equal share; lend to my mother-in-law, Tabitha Taylor, one bed and furniture during her life and if my wife should die before my mother-in-law, she is to have use of my work house and one acre of land around it for her life, signed Eliza Hawkins, wit. (Edw. G. Hammond), Levin Leggitt. Abstracted from original, NC State Archives, CR.037.801.14, Edge. Co. Wills. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/edgecombe/wills/hawkins2613wl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb