HENDERSON COUNTY, NC - WILLS - Rev. Asa Edney, 21 Mar 1842
===================================================================
     USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing
         free information on the Internet, data may be used by
         non-commercial entities, as long as this message
         remains on all copied material. These electronic
         pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit
         or for presentation by other persons or organizations.

         Persons or organizations desiring to use this material
         for purposes other than stated above must obtain the
         written consent of the file contributor.

	 The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives
	 to store the file permanently for free access.

         This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb
         Archives by: Marshall Styles   marshallstyles@yahoo.com
====================================================================
Last Will and Testament of Rev. Asa Edney, of Edneyville, Henderson
County, NC, 1842

Transcribed and submitted by Marshall L. Styles, mstyles@greenville
.infi.net


Asa Edney wrote his Last Will and Testament in Henderson County, North
Carolina, and had it  recorded at the county court house. Witnesses were
William Lanning and Matthew Neely. Executors  named by Asa are three of
his sons: Ambrose Jones Edney, Calvin J. Edney and Samuel Jones Edney.
The  text of his will, spelling maintained:

"March 21st 1842. I Asa Edney by the grace of God being in my Right Mind
and sound understanding and  judgement, doth first will and resine my
Sole into the hands of Almighty God in Heaven and deliver my  body after
death. I will and Resine to the dust from which it was taken until the
morning of the Reserection  at which I hope to have a resurrection and
life eternal. And further I desire to be intered in a plain and 
Christian manner. I doth allso will and bequeath unto my true and
beloved wife Sarah Edney during her  natural life a certain tract or
parcel of land , beginning at the mouth of the first branch betwene
myself and  son Marvell Edny, thence up the said branch to the fork at a
large pine thence a direct line to the mill pond  fence where it now
crosses Clear Creek, thence running with the said fence to the McCoy
line thence East  with the said McCoy line to where the said line
crosses creek, thence down the said creek to where the Little Clear
Creek empties into the Big Clear Creek crossing the mouth of Little
Clear Creek, thence  running with my own line to the wagon ford on the
mountain branch, thence up the said branch to the  Mays' line, thence
east to the corner, thence with the said line to Little Clear Creek,
thence up the said  creek to the beginning including my home and my
dwelling houses.

"This land after my wifes deseast to be equally divided between my son
Calvin Edny and my daughter  Elmyra Edny and my son Newton Edny. I also
will to my wife one Negro girl named Harriett, also one  Negro boy named
Sam is given to her during her natural life and after her death to go
back to my lawful  heirs. I allso give to my wife all my household and
kitchen furniture entirely with the farming tools, ten head of sheep,
three cows and calves, one roan mare, one Brown horse with the present
stock of hogs,  including the present crop of corn and oats, one waggon
& gearing, one still. All the above named property  is to the use of my
wife during her life, then to the use of my heirs. All the rest of my
Real and Personal  property to be sold at a credit of twelve months and
after my just and honest debts is paid the amount  coming or arising
from the sale of my property to be equily divided among my children,
except my son  Calvin and my son Newton and daughter Elmyra. My interest
in the Turn Pike is to the use of the present  family.

"What ever may be coming to my daughter Sary Ann Posey is to go to the
use of her offspring to be paid  over by the Executors at their disposal
as the family may need it. I  allso appoint Ambrose J. Edney, Calvin
Edney and Samuel Edney as my lawfull Executors after my death, and this
being my last will and testament, I have heareunto set my hand and seal
the day and date above  written, Signed, Sealed in the presence of us.
Attest: {signed} William Lanning, Matthew Neely. Asa Edney {Seal}"

"Endorsed on the back as follows (viz), Offered for Probate at Sept.
Term 1842, Caveat. State of North Carolina. To the Justices of the Court
of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in and for Henderson  County. Greetings.
Whereas, a paper writing purporting to be the Last Will and Testament of
Asa Edney,  deceased, was offered for probate in the Court of Pleas and
Quarter Sessions of Henderson County and  there Caveated... appeal was
to be taken to the Superior Court of Law for said County of Henderson
when  in a trial... has been duly proven to be the Last Will and
Testament of Said Asa Edney, dec'd, and it was therefore ordered by said
court that a ... issue to the County Court of said County to Qualify the
Executors  and admit said paper writing to probate and duly record the
same. You are therefore commanded to admit  the said paper writing
hereunto annexed, marked A, and to which a Certificate of Probate is
attached, to  probate in said Court and duly record the same and on this
application to qualify the Executors therein  named. Witness, J.C.
Gullick, Clerk of our said Court at Office the 4th Monday in March 1844.
Issued the  23rd day of February 1850. {Signed} J.C. Gullick"