NC, Mecklenburg, Will, Jane Lawing, 1866 ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. submitted by sheppard@hargray.com, April 2001 http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Will of Jane C. Lawing (Jane C. Waddell, b. January 04, 1804, d. October 05, 1866, buried at Paw Creek Cemetery, Mecklenburg County, NC, marriage bond March 07, 1820 to William A. Lawing, son of Andrew Obedience Bradshaw Lawing) Will dated 12/8/1964, recorded: Book J, page 227, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina I, Jane C. Lawing, of the County of Mecklenburg and State of N. Carolina being of sound mind and memory, do make this my last will and testament as follows that is to say that my Executor or Administrator shall provide for my body a decent burial and have [a] head stone erected over my grave and pay for the same together with my just debts our of the money that first come unto his hand. Item 1st I will and devise to my son George A. Lawing one dollar. Item 2nd I will and devise to my daughter Margaret Lawing one dollar. Item 3 I will and devise to my daughter Fanny W. Hipp one dollar. Item 4 I will and devise to my daughter Amelia Hipp one dollar. Item 5 I will and devise to my granddaughter Frances I. Hipp one cow, a bed and one counterpane. Item 6 and last I will and devise to my youngest daughter Easther Cathey Lawing all the balance of my estate real and personal which I own at my death. In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal this the 8th day of December 1864. Jane C. Lawing (seal) Test: Stephan Wilson, Eliza Wilson