GREENE Co. NC, WILLS: WHITMEL  HARDEE 1897 =========================================================
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Abstracted from LDS microfilm # 1571510 Greene Co. Original Wills found in the North 
Carolina State Archives.

WHITMEL HARDEE 1897
I Whitmel Hardee of the county of Greene and state of North Carolina being in sound mind 
and memory do make this my last will and testament

1st.  I desire my lawful debts to be paid from my personal effects as soon as possible 
after my demise.  I desire that my wife Fannie remain on this place with my two children 
until they are of lawful age to marrge (manage?) ____ for themselves, send them to school 
from the proceeds of the farm and manage as though I was with them.  I desire that the 
stock on said farm be kept on the place and that there be no public sale after my death 
unless it be comes necessary for assets to pay my debts.

I desire this plantation on which I now live to go to my son Whitmel after the death of 
his mother.

I desire my daughter Fannie R. Hardee to share equal with my son Whitmel in dols and cents 
fom the estate both personal and real.

I desire that David S. Smith pay over to my two children Whitmel and Fannie six hundred 
dols. and have and to hold the plantation near GreenvilleNE known as the Ringgold place 
and now belonging to me

I appoint my wife Fannie Hardee executrix of this my last will and testament and also 
guardian for my two children Whitmell and Fannie R.  without bond for the performance  of 
duties

In writing where of I Whitmel Hardee hereunto set my hand and seal this the 16th day of
Dec 1895
Signed Whitmel Hardy  
seal

Subscibed by the testation in the presence of each of us and at the same time declaed by 
him to be as his last will and testament 
Expunetus (Eusinetus?)  Hardee
E.H. Hornaday

Greene County in Superior court before J.W. Blount Clerk of Superior Court
in the matter of the WILL of Whitmel Hardee

Fannie Hardee being duly sworn,, doth say : 
that Whitmel Hardee, late of said county,  is dead, having first made and published his 
last will and testament: and that Fannie Hardee is the executrix named therein.

Further , that the property of the said Whitmel Hardee consisting of lands, husehold , and 
kitchen furniture, stock,, farming emplements etc. is worth about 4000 dollars, so far as 
can be ascertained at the date of this application; and that Whitmel Hardee, Fannie R. 
Hardee asume the life estate of the Executrix.  
signed Fannie Hardee
16 Feb 1897