ONSLOW COUNTY, NC - WILL BOOK 2 - George J. Ward, 8 Jan 1860
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GEORGE J. WARD WILL
State of North Carolina
County of Onslow
Will Book 2


Name of God, Amen, I, George J. Ward, being weak of body but of sound mind and 
memory, do make and publish this my last will and testament in maner and form, 
viz.,
ITEM I wish my just debts paid.  I will that all my lands sold to pay my debts 
and my property of every description to be eaqually divided amongst all my 
children.
ITEM wish my trusty friends Robert White, Edward W. Montford, Richard W. Ward 
to be my Executors of my last will.  In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand 
& seal in presents of us and me in presents of each other, this 8th January 
1860.
(signed) G. J. Ward

O. Huggins
A. J. Murrell

State of North Carolina}
Onslow County}
Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions March Term 1860
Then was a paper writing purporting to be the last will and testament of 
George J. Ward, decd., offered for probate and admitted upon the oaths and 
examination of Owen Huggins and A. J. Murrill, the subscribing witnesses 
thereto and the same ordered to be recorded and filed as the last will and 
testament of George J. Ward, decd., where Richard W. Ward, one of the 
executors therein named appeared in open court and was duly qualified as 
executor aforesaid by taking the usual oath of an executor.
Jasper Etheridge, CCC (county clerk of court)