ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - WILL BOOK 2 - Ruth Smelledge, 19 Aug 1841
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RUTH SMELLEDGE WILL
State of North Carolina
County of Onslow
Will Book 2

In the name of God, Amen.  I, Ruth Smelledge, being through the abundance 
mercy and goodness of God, though weak in body but of a sound and perfect 
understanding and memory, do constitute this my last will and testament and 
desire it may be received by all as such.  Imprimus, I most humbly bequeath my 
sole to God my maker to prepare me for my (destution?), blessed be God, I give 
my body to the loam whence it was taken in full insurance of its resurrection 
from thence at the last day.
My will is that I desire that all my just debts to be paid.
ITEM I give to my cousin Elizabeth Gary all the property I now possess 
consisting of household furniture and one account of  (avist or avirt?) 
(Cowel?) Kellum.
August 19th day 1841
(signed her mark) Ruth Smelledge

Test:
J. Henderson, Jr.
Alfred (his mark) Gary

State of North Carolina}
Onslow County}
Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions, February Term 1842.
Then was the paper writing purporting to be the last will and testament of 
Ruth Smelledge offered for probate and admitted on the oath of Josiah 
Henderson, he one of the subscribing witnesses there and ordered to be 
recorded.