SAMPSON COUNTY, NC - WILLS - Minson McLamb, 25 Mar 1904
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Roseboro, NC  March 25th 1904

In the name of our God amen

I Minson McLamb of the County of Sampson and the State of North 
Carolina Being of sound mind and memory and considering the uncertainty 
of this life. Do make and publish this my last will and testament in manor 
and form following that is to say:

Item. I give and devise and bequeath to my beloved wife Elizabeth C 
McLamb all of the farming land on the wsest side of branch that runs 
between where I now live and the J T Fort house down to the Noah ditch 
and as far west as the brier pond at the head of a ditch and including the 
Forton Owen place. Also all of the turpentine boxes on the J T Fort place 
Also all the farming land on the east side of the mill branch on the Eligah 
Fisher place. _____________ Also all the farming land on the west side of the 
Clinton and Averysboro road on the Draughon place. Also one mule her 
choice and all my hogs and cattle also one hundred and fifty bushels of 
corn five hundred pounds of meat and one hundred pounds of lard. All my 
house hold and kitchen furniture and two hundred dollos in money to have 
her natural life.

Item. I give and devise to my son Henry H. McLamb fifty acres of land on 
the east side of the Beaver Dam and lies between Casons line and the 
Branch that runs down near the Chorby house. Also a peice estimated at 
ten acres lying between the Culbreth place and the Noah ditch and west to 
the Forton Owen place being the peice he cultivated in the year 1903. 

Item. I give and devise to my son William F. McLamb Three Hundred acres 
of land on the Fort place where I now live being on the west side of the 
Beaver Dam including the dwelling and out houses to hold his life and then 
to his heirs.

Item. I give and devise to my son Algernon McLamb the Balance of the land 
in the Fort place estimated at two hundred and eighty acres to have and to 
hold his lifetime and then to his heirs

Item  I give and devis to my daughter Emma C White one tract of land on 
Little Coharie adjoining the land of Uriah Sessoms and Thomas Owen 
estimated at eighty acres more or less Also All of that tract of land on Big 
Coharie known as the Draughon place to have and to hold her life time and 
then to her heirs. I except the past land willed my wife during her life and 
then to my daughter Emma C White

Item The Remainder of my property both Real and personal I give to my 
daughter Theodosa I. Bullard, George T. McLamb and Henry H McLamb to 
be devided between the three equeally. I except my wife’s life time on the 
farming land and ______ above mentioned

And lastly I do make constatute and appoint my trusty friends George T 
McLamb and George W Bullard executors of this my last will and testament 
to execute the same according  to the true intent and meaning of the same.
                                                                      
                    				Minson McLamb

We at the request of the sead Minson McLamb and his presents and in the 
presents of each other do subscribe our names as witnesses to said will

Witness              I. E. Howard
                     A. J. Sessoms