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Will Book #2 pg. 3 1870 Record of Wills: Stanly County Howell Harwood's Will In the name of God Amen. I Howell Howard of the County of Stanly and State of North Carolina being advanced in age but of sound and disposing mind and memory do make disclose and publish this paper writing to be and contain my last will and testament, revoking all others. 1st It is my will that my executor herein after named pay all my just debts after my death as soon as can be convently done. 2nd I have already given by deed one hundred acres of land to my son Absolom and one hundred to my son Evin and one hundred dollars in money to my son Emsley to pay for the land he lives on. 3rd I will and divise to the three children of my son Reddin ane hundred acres of land to be laid off to them around where my son Reddin did live. I also will and divise one hundred acres of land to the two children of my son David and their heirs to be laid off to them around where my son David settled as near as can be done and I also will and divise to the three children of my son Howell and their heirs one hundred acres of land to be laid off to them around where my son Howell settled or near as can be done and I require my executor to select and appoint those disintrested fore holders to lay off and with a surveyor to run and mark out each of the aforesaid tracts of land of one hundred acres I have willed my Grandchildren and to lay them of in the best form they can so as not to impress the different tracts and each tract to include the settlement and houses put up by my decesed sons. 4th All the rest and residue of my land I will and divise to my wife Celia during her natural life and after her death shall go to my two daughters Susan and Celia and their jeirs to be equally divided between them share and share alike. 5th As I have given all of my children that have married and left me some personal property to go to house keeping I therefore will to each of my daughters Susan and Celia a cow and a calf. 6th It is my will that all my personal property of any kind remain in the possession of my wife during her natural life and after her death then I will it all to be sold and the proceeds to be divided equally between all my children and my grandchildren. My grandchildren to get the same part that their parents would if they were living. 7th It is my will if my wife should think there is more personal property left to her than she can manage to good advantage then it is my will that my executors have privilege and authorty to sell any such property at any time and dispose of the proceeds as I have to fore directed. 8th I constitute and appoint my two sons Emsley and Absolom the executors of this my last will and testament signed sealed and published th 16th of August AD 1865. Howell Harwood (seal) In the presence of J.M. Long J.K. Loflen M. Moose Reddin Shoe Codocil: I will and bequeath to each of my daughters Susan and Celia a good horse least this codocol is made and executed on the same day and time that the foregoing will is published & executed and in confirmation of the same in all respects except what I have in this codicil mentioned Signed sealed and published on the 16th day of August 1865. Howell Harwood (seal) In the presence of J.M. Long Reddin Shoe M. Moose J.K. Loflin Stanly County In the Probate Court A paper purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Howell Harwood deceased is as exhibited before me the undersigned Judge of Probate of said County by Emsley Harward & Ensly Harward the executor thense named and the due executor then of the said Howell Harward by the oath of Reddin Shoe and M. Moose the subscribing witness thereto who being duly sworn did dispose and say and each for himself deposit and said that he is a subscribing witness to the paper writing now shown him porporting to be the last Will and Testament of Howell Harward. That the said Howell Harward in the presence of this depanent subscribed his name at hte end of said paper writing which is now shown as aforesaid and which bears the date of the 16th day of August 1865. And the depanent futher saith that the said Howell Harwood the testator aforesaid did at the time of subscribing his name as aforesaid declares the paper writing so subscribed by him and exhibited to be his last Will and Testament and the dispossed did then upon subscribe his name at the end of said will as an attending witness thereto and at the request and in the presence of said testator.And this desponent saitht that at the said time when the said testator subscribed his name to the said last will as aforesaid and at the time of the desponents subscribing his name as an attesting witness think as aforesaid the said Howeel Harwood 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 desponent and further these desponents saith not. Reddin Shoe (seal) formally sworn & subscribed this 2nd Februry 1870 before me J.M. Redwine Probate Judge