Franklin County, NC - Estate of Irving Stallings, 1862

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Irving Stallings of Franklin County, North Carolina

Estate Records, Court of Pleas & Quarters

Session September Term 1862


State of North Carolina }         Court of Pleas & Quarters
County of Franklin      }         Session September Term 1862

To the worshipful, the Justices of said Court the Petition of Mary Stallings, 
widow of Irving Stallings deceased.

Humbly showith unto your worships that my late husband Irving Stallings 
departed this life intestate in the County of Franklin in the month of July 
last having your petitioner his widow and with the following children and one 
grand child, who are his heirs at law to wit: Alfred Stallings, Alex Stallings, 
Weldon Stallings, Jane Guilliam wife of James Guilliam, Mary Hollingsworth 
wife of Swickman Hollingsworth, Harriet King wife of Burrell King, Frances 
Stallings, wife of John Stallings, Susan Inscoe, wife of William Inscoe, 
Elizabeth Swanson, wife of William C. Swanson and Robert Stallings an infant 
child of Irving Stallings Jr. deceased for whom the said Alfred Stallings has 
been appointed guardian by this Court at its present term.

Your petitioner further showith that her said husband died sized in fee of a 
tract of land in said County situated on Red Budd Creek adjoining the land of 
A.M. Bobbitt, Gray Stokes, Priscilla Leonard and others and containing by 
estimate six hundred acres upon which the said deceased resided and had his 
mansion hence and in which your petitioner as she advised is entitled to 
dower - And she prays your worships to grant her a writ of dower issued to 
the Sheriff of Franklin County commanding him to summons a Jury of good lawful 
men to lay off and allot to her dower in the said land and to put her in 
possession thereof and to make when thereof to the next term of this Court and 
to that end she prays that process may fine to the said heirs at law commanding 
them to be and appear and go forth hence shall ever Pray & C.

J.J. Davis Atty

Transcribed by Callie J. Stallings, March 26, 2005 

Note: Irving Stallings was the son of John and Betsy
(Jenkins) Stallings.  The wife of Irving Stallings Jr.
was named Matilda.


James Stallings of Franklin County, North Carolina
Nuncupative Last Will and Testament
September 7, 1851

The following is the last will of James Stallings.  I  James Stallings as 
exculpated before us as witness on Sunday the 7th day of September A.D. 1857.  
To Wit:

I wish Nickolas Arrington to have as agent appointed to settle my estate and 
the balance or residue to be divided equally between my brothers, Willie 
Stallings, William Stallings, and my sister, Maria Stallings

Attest:                     Witness:
James Collins               B. R. King
                            Mary (X) Upperman 


Transcribed by: Callie J. Stallings, March 26, 2005

Note:  James Stallings was the son of Bennett and
Tempy (Collins) Stallings.  James Collins, was a 
cousin, B.R. King, a cousin, Mary Upperman was 
his aunt.

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