Edgecombe County, NC - Lamon Ruffin Will Caveat, 1828

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Following is a Court Record                 Caveat to a Will
Henry TG Ruffin executor of Lamon Ruffin dec'd vs Sally Kilpatrick

A paper writing purporting to be the Last Will and Testament of Lamon
Ruffin which was offered for probate at last term and notice ordered to be
issued to the next of kin of the said Lamon Ruffin was now again offered
for probate by Henry TG Ruffin, one of the Executors therein named when it
appeared to the satisfaction of the court that notices had been served on
Sally Kilpatrick, Jesse H. Cobb and Olive his wife, Theophilus Edwards and
Elizabeth his wife and that publication had been made for three months in
the Raleigh Register and Raleigh___
agreeably to the order of the Court at last term as to non residents. When
Sally Kilpatrick by her attorney George W. Mordicai appeared in open Court
and entered a caveat to the probate of said paper writing whereupon it is
ordered by the court that an issue be made up to try whether said paper
writing to be Last Will and Testament of Lamon Ruffin or not. In the
evidence of Spencer L. Hart, Moses Spicer and Randolph Cotten who swore
that they were well acquainted with the handwriting of said Lamon Ruffin
and that they believed the said paper writing--?in part and parcel thereof
is of the proper handwriting of said Lamon Ruffin and also on the evidence
of Weeks Parker who made oath that he found paper writing among the
valuable papers of said dec'd who being charged do say that the said paper
writing does contain the Last Will and Testament of said Lamon Ruffin.
Whereupon it is ordered by the court that the said mpaper writing be
admitted to probate as the Last Will and Testament of said Lamon Ruffin and
be recorded as such. At the same time Henry TG Ruffin the surviving
executor of said Lamon Ruffin prayed to be admitted to qualify as Executor
to said Will which was admitted to qualify as Executor to said will which
was granted by the court and he was qualified accordingly in due form of
Law ordered that the same be certified.
A. 1828 term.