ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - WILL BOOK 2 - Matilda Shepard, 19 Mar 1846
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MATILDA SHEPARD WILL
State of North Carolina
County of Onslow
Will Book 2


In the name of God, amen.  I, Matilda Shepard, being of sound mind and memory 
but knowing that its once appointed for all persons to die, I make and ordain 
this my last will and testament as follows, viz.
ITEM the first I leave my son Samuel Shepard my Executor to my will.
ITEM 2nd I give to my daughter Eliza Melton ten dollars in cash to be paid by 
my Executor.
ITEM 3rd I give to my son (Ruly?) Shepard one cow calf & yearling to be paid 
by my Executor = also one bed & furniture that he now has in possession.
ITEM 4th I give to my daughter Sarah Ann Shepard one bed & furniture, one two 
year old heifer yearling, when she comes of age, to be paid by my Executor, 
all the balance of my property of every description, I give to my son Samuel 
Shepard to dispose of as he may think fit.
(signed her mark) Matilda Shepard

Signed sealed & delivered in the present of us
O. B. Sanders
Hancy Corbett
March 19th 1846

State of North Carolina}
Onslow County}
Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions, May Term 1846
Then was the forgoing paper writing purporting to be the last will and 
testament of Matilda Shepard, decd., offered and admitted to probate as such 
last will and testament, upon the oath of Otway B. Sanders, one of the 
subscribing witnesses.  When it was ordered that the same be filed and 
recorded.
Jasper Etheridge, clk