ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - WILL BOOK 2 - Joseph Ball, 1 Aug 1854
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JOSEPH BALL WILL
State of North Carolina
County of Onslow
Will Book 2


In the name of God, amen, I Joseph Ball of the County of Onslow  & State of 
North Carolina, being verry sick & weak, but of perfect mind and memory, 
thanks be given to God for it, and calling to mind that it is appointed for 
all men once to die, do make & ordain this my last will and testament in 
manner & form, that is to say.
First of all, I give & recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God who 
gave it & my body to the earth to be buried at the discretion of my friends.
First, I give & bequeath to my beloved wife Cereny Ball, all my land, houses, 
household & kitchen furniture with all my farming utentials & tools of every 
discription; likewise, all my stock of every kind with the exception that my 
daughter Louiza Ball shall have two cows & my son David to be priviledged to 
build himself a house on said land & live on it & work on said premises, he & 
his brother Elijah & help maintain their mother Cereny Ball & is my will that 
at the death of my beloved wife, that all my lands, goods & chattles that is 
then remaining to be equally divided between my three children; David, Elijah 
& Louiza Ball & it is my wish that David shall have his part of lands where he 
puts up his building.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 1st 
day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & fifty four.
Joseph (his mark) Ball

Signed sealed published and delivered in the presence of
Joseph Marshall
Delamore (his mark) Wells
John Eubank

State of North Carolina}
Onslow County}
Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions September Term 1854
Then was the foregoing paper writing purporting to be the last will and 
testament of Joseph Ball, deceased, was offered for probate and the same 
admitted as such last will and testament on the testimony of Joseph Marshall, 
one of the subscribing witnesses thereto and said paper writing ordered to be 
recorded and filed.  When Sereny Ball, the widow of said deceased, applied in 
open court for letters of administration, with the will amended, which was 
granted, upon her entering into bond in the sum of one hundred & fifty 
dollars, with Zeph Marshall and Benjamin R. Henderson as her sureties.
Jasper Etheridge, clk