RANDOLPH COUNTY, NC - COURT - John Elder Probate - 1887

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Application
                                Randolph County - In the Probate Court
 In the matter of the will of John Elder /  Before Geo. S. Bradshaw CSC

Lea Elder, being duly sworn doth say :  That  John Elder, late of said 
county is dead, having first made and published his last will and 
testament ; and that Lea Elder is the executor named therein.
Further , that the property of the said John Elder consisting of real 
and personal property is worth about $80000, so far as can be 
ascertained at the date of this application; and that Lea Elder, 
Margaret Elder, Martin Elder, William Elder, Jabez Elder's heirs, Nancy 
J. Royls ( Royals) and Emily Royls ( Royals ) are the parties entitled 
under said will to said property.

Sworn to and subscribed before me                    signed  Lea Elder
this 25th day of June 1887
signed Geo. S. Bradshaw


Certificate of Probate

State of North Carolina                ss.
Randolph County                               In the Probate Court

 A paper purporting to be the last will and testament of John Elder, 
deceased, is exibited before me , the under signed  Judge of 
Probate for said county, by Lea Elder the executor therein mentioned, 
and the due execution thereof by the said John Elder by the oath and 
examniation of John Thomas Arnold and James Eugene Lanier, the 
subscribing witnesses thereto : who, being duly sworn, doth depose and 
say and each for himself deposeth and saith, that he is a subscribing 
witness to the paper- writing now shown him purporting to be the last 
will and testament of John Elder; that the said John Elder, in the 
presence of this deponent, subscribed his name at the end of said 
paper- writing, which is now shown as aforesaid, which bears the date 
of the 11th day of March 1886. And the deponent further saith, that the
said John Elder, the testator aforesaid, did, at the time of 
subscribing his name as aforesaid, declare the said paper- writing so 
subscribed by him and exhibited , to be his last will and testament, 
and this deponent did thereupon did subscribe his name at the end of 
said will, as an attesting witness thereto, and at the request and in 
the presence of the said testator. And this deponent further saith, 
that the said time when the testator subscribed his name to the said 
last will as aforesaid, and the time of the deponents  subscribing his 
name as attesting witness thereto, as aforesaid the said John Elder was
of sound mind and memory, of full age to execute a will, and was not 
under any restraint to the knowledge , information, or belief of this 
deponent: and further these deponents say not.

           signed        John Thomas Arnold             seal
                         James Eugene Lanier              seal



Sevenly sworn and subscribed
this 25th day of June 1887 before me.


      signed Geo. S. Bradshaw  CSC