Wake County, NC - Will of Willis Hunnicutt, Sr., 1874 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ State of North Carolina Wake County Willis Hunnicutt, Sr. 1874 – Marks Creek In the name of God amen, I Willis Hunnicutt of the county of Wake and the State of North Carolina being of sound mind and memory and considering the certainty of this frail and transitory life do therefore make ordain publish and declare this to be my last will and testament. That is to say first of all my lawful debts are paid and discharged the ….. of my estate real and personnel. I give bequeath and dispose of as follows: 1st I give to my four single daughter’s, Laura Hunnicutt, Minerva Hunnicutt, Mira Hunnicutt, and Ellen Hunnicutt. One hundred and twenty four acre’s of land more or less to include the house in which I now reside also I give to said four single daughters all the personal property I may now be in possession of at the time of my death if any of the above four single daughters should marry my will is that they shall have 25 acres of land each taken from either side of the house tract so as to include the house in which I now reside. The last single daughters or daughter to have the house in which I now reside and remaining lands I give to said daughter’s if they should marry one good bed complete each also I give to the heirs of my son Jackson Hunnicutt one acre of land lying on the north side of the house tract of land on the line branch between me and Charles F. Debman adjoining the Pair tract o land. Then I give to my son Ransom Hunnicutt one acre of land lying on the south side of the lands bequeathed to the heirs of my son Jackson Hunnicutt. Then I give to my daughter Sallie Todd and Mary Earp sixty acres of land more or less which is next to Malaly tract of land to be divided equal between them. Then I give to my son B.V. Hunnicutt one hundred and forty acres near or in lying on the south side of the land now occupied by Brinkley Medlin the line to sum with the said Medlin line from or near Buffalo Creek to the Malaley tract of land. Then I give to son Willis H. Hunnicutt and his heirs thirty acres of land on the line branch which runs between me and J.A. Richardson said thirty acres of land is to include the house in which my son now resides also I give to him one acre of land which he is now building so long on as he prepares to reside on it. If he should die or remove from it said acre of land to resort to my four single daughters above named, likewise I make constitute and appoint J.R. Howell to be my executor to this my last will and testament honestly revoking all before man, wills by me made. In willing whereas I sign my name and affix my seal this 12th day December in the year of our Lord One Thousand and eight hundred and seventy-four. Willis X Hunnicutt The above witness in testament was subscribed by said Willis Hunnicutt in our presence and acknowledgement by him to each of us and he at the same time published and disclaimed the above instrument so subscribed to be his last will and testament and we at the testers request and in his presence have signed our names as witness here to in W. Pair W.E. Richardson [Willis Hunnicutt, Sr. of Marks Creek married Rachel Kimbell – 19th Oct 1820. Their son Willis Jr. married Sarah S. Bunch, daughter of Samuel Bunch and Rutha Perry of Marks Creek abt 1863. Willis Jr. was a Civil War soldier (enlisted 16 July 1862) in the Wake co. regiment. Willis Jr.’s eldest child was Lugenia Helen “Babe” Hunnicutt she married Henry B. Hobbs in 1877. Their child Henry Elbert Hobbs was born one month after his father died of Typhoid Fever (b. Dec 1879 d. June 1963- buried in Clyde’s Chapel cemetery next to his wife of over 50 years-Ella Mae Martin Hobbs and baby daughter Clea Oler Hobbs)] ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Ella Di Pietro ___________________________________________________________________