ORANGE COUNTY, NC - WILLS - Roland C. and Susan H. Hill, 11 Feb 1924
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North Carolina
Orange County

We, Roland C. Hill and wife, Susan H. Hill, of Orange County, said State, do 
make, publish and declare this to be our last will and testament in words and 
figures as follows, to wit:
Item 1. we and each of us jointly and severally give and devise to our son 
Mickle Hill all the real estate we may own at our death or at the death of 
either of us wherever situated, particuarily (sic) the farm on which we now 
reside, containing 178 acres more or less. Said farm lying and being on the 
Hillsboro-Oxford road about four miles East of Hillsboro to have and to hold 
the same absolutely and in fee simple, subject only to the life estate of the 
surviver in the lands of the other devisor in this will, and to the payment of 
the special bequests hereinafter set forth.
Item 2. We give and bequeath to the said Mickle Hill all of our personal 
property of whatever kind or nature and wherever situated, including notes, 
bonds, mortages (sic), and other evidences of indebtedness which we or either 
of us may own or have at our death or the death of either of us, subject 
however to the payment of the special legacies and bequests hereinafter set 
forth. The payment of the special legacies and bequests if made out of the 
personal property shall operate to relieve the charge hereinbefore made 
against the real estate devised to our said son, Mickle Hill, and the bequests 
of the personal property also be subject to the use of the income therefrom to 
the surviver as hereinafter set forth.
Item 3. We give & bequeath to the surviver the use, interest and income from 
all evidence of indebtedness, money, bonds, notes, etc., which we or either of 
us may have at our death or the death of either of us to have and use in such 
manner as the surviver shall doom (sic) best and at the death of such surviver 
to be distributed as set forth in article two of this will and article four 
thereof.
Item 4. We give and bequeath our Isaac H. Hill the sum of Fifty dollars and to 
each of his three children, Elsie, Janie, and Richard the sum of Fifty Dollars 
each; to our son Levi H. Hill the sum of Two Hundred Dollars; to our Daughter 
Sudie W. Harris Two Hundred Dollars; to our Daughter, Hattie E. Hill, Two 
Hundred Dollars, to our Daughter M. Loreta Salter Fifty Dollars, and to her 
child Regina Salter the sum of One Hundred and Fifty Dollars; to our Daughter 
Rosa Peel the sum of Ten Dollars and to her Son, Stroud Peel the sum of Ninety 
Dollars, to be paid to them by our executor at the death of the surviver 
unless the same shall be sooner paid by our Son Mickle Hill after the death of 
either of us in order to relieve the charge on the real estate hereinbefore 
devised to him. The amount herinbefore bequeathed to our grand children shall 
be invested or loaned on good security and held until the said grandchildren 
shall become fifteen years of age and at such time used for the education of 
such grandchildren in so far as the amount given to each may go.
Item 5. We do hereby constitute and appoint our Son Mickle Hill executor of 
this our last will and testament to execute the same in accordance with the 
true intent and meaning of the same hereby revoking and declaring void all 
other wills made by us or either of us. And the said executor is hereby 
directed to first pay out of our estate or the estate of either of us all 
debts and funeral expenses, same to be paid before any of the bequests herein 
made shall become effective or paid. In witness hereof, we have hereunto set 
our hands and seals this the 11th day of February 1924.

				Roland C. Hill (Seal)

				Susan H. Hill (Seal)

Oath and examination of witnesses, P. C. Collins and E. M. Lockhart was taken 
when will was probated March 13, 1925.

NOTE: In will daughter Rosa and grandson Stroud were referred to as "Peel" - 
she was actually married to a Pool. Granddaughter was referred to as "Janie" 
and she was actually Jennie Hill. Son referred to as Mickle is Robert Mickle 
Hill; son, Isaac H. Hill is Isaac Holden Hill; and son, Levi H. Hill, is Levi 
Hendricks Hill. Researched and documented by Barbara Hill Currie.