WAYNE COUNTY, NC - Will of Wright Casey

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Will of Wright Casey - October 18, 1874
Source - NC Archives

I Wright Casey of the county of Wayne and State of North Carolina Being 
of Sound mind and Memory but considering the uncertainty of my Earthly 
Existence do make and declare this my Last Will and Testament in manner 
and form Following that is to say,

1st That my Executor hereinafter named shall provide for my body a 
decent burial suitable to the wishes of my relations and friends and pay 
all funeral expenses together with my just debts howsoever and to oweing 
out of the monies that may first come into his hands as a part or parcel 
of my Estate,

(2) I give and devise to my beloved wife Charlotte Casey one bay horse 
colt and one first choice cow & calf and one first choice heifer two 
feather beds and furniture one sow and pigs all the poultry on the yard 
and one half of all the House Hold & Kitchen Furniture not bequeathed in 
the second Item and allso the one third part of all my lands for and 
during her natural lifetime to be selected by her one Jersey Waggon & 
horse.

Item (3rd) I give and devise to my daughters Amy W Casey one cow and 
calf second choice one sow and pigs one feather bed and furniture known 
as her bed one set of sitting chairs and all the lands on the south side 
of the road leading from Dudly to White Hall coming at the mouth of the 
lane leading from the house to the road and running with the corn rows 
now existing in the field on the south side of said road and on the east 
side of the lane that runs thrugh the plantation on said south side of 
the road said line to extend back thrugh the field to the Whitfields 
line.

Item 4th I give and devise to my son James H Casey all that part of my 
lands lying west of a line to commence at the mash girth and to run in 
such direction as to run with the lane running from the house to the 
road through the yard Said land being on North side of the White Hall 
Road allso all the personal property not conveyed in this instrument 
often first - Paying off and discharging all my just debts including one 
hundred dollars to be paid to Amy W Casey in Twelve months 
after death.

Item (5th) I give and devise to my daughter Martha Eliza Barwick the sum 
of five dollars in the Currency of the United States.

Item (6th) I give and devise to my three daughters viz Hepsey Wood 
(Hood?), Vicey Ann Jones and Elizabeth Casey all the lands not before 
conveyed in this Will to my son Jas H Casey and my daughter Amy W Casey 
to equally divided between the three that is to say Hepsey, Vicey Ann 
and Elizabeth by Cleats and Bounds.

And lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint my son James H Casey my 
lawful Executor to all interests and purposes to Execute this my Last 
Will and Testament according to the true intent and meaning of the same 
and every part and cleanse others of hereby revoking and declaring 
utterily void all other Wills and Testaments by me heretofore made in 
witness whereof I the said Wright Casey do hereunto set my hand and seal 
this the Eighteenth day of October AD 1875.

                                   Wright Casey (Seal)

Signed Sealed and Published and delared 
by the said Wright Casey to be his Last 
Will and Testament in the Presence of us 
who at his request and in his desire do 
Subscribe our names as Witness thereto 

Jethro Jones
A T Grady

Wright Casey Will

North Carolina, Wayne County
In Probate Court

A paper writing purporting to be the last will and Testament of Wright 
Casey bearing date the 18th day of October AD 1875 is thus offered for 
Probate on the evidence of Jethrow Jones and A T Grady the subscribing 
witnesses is therefore considered by the county that this said paper 
writing and every part thereof is the last will and Testament of the 
said Wright Casey thereto and the same is duly forever and after 
submitted to Probate and Jas H Casey the Executor therein named is duly 
qualified by the witnesses and subscribing the oaths prescribed by law

Nov 15th 1875
W T Yelverton, Probate Judge


Application For Letters Testamentary - Printed and for sale by Nichols & 
Gorman, Raleigh, NC

Wayne County: - In the Probate Court

In the matter of the Will of Wright Casey

Before W T Yelverton, Judge of Probate

James H Casey being sworn doth say: That Wright Casey, late of said 
County, is dead, having first made and published his last Will and 
Testament; and that James H Casey is the executor named therein. 

Further, that the property of the said Wright Casey consisting of 
Household & Kitchen furniture about 75 barrels corn about 5 bales cotton 
farming utensils Hogs cattle one colt is worth about $1,000 so far as 
can be ascertained at the date of this application; and that Charlotte 
Casey, Amy W Casey, James H Casey, Martha E Barwick, Hepsey Hood 
residing in Wayne County, NC, Vicey A Jones residing in Duplin County, 
NC, Elizabeth Casey residing at Camden South Carolina, are parties 
entitled under said Will to the said property. 

James H Casey

Sworn to and subsribed before me, this 15 day of November 1875

W T Yelverton, Probate Judge

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