Wayne County NcArchives Wills.....Yelverton, Etheldred September 4, 1849
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Source: Nc State Archives
Written: September 4, 1849
Recorded: February 1851

Etheldred Yelverton Will dated 4 Sept 1849 and proved Feb 1851
Wayne County, NC transcript from the original will held at the NC State 
Archives
Punctuation and spelling are retained

In the name of god Amen.  I Ethd. Yelverton [Etheldred Yelverton]
of the County of Wayne and State of No. Carolina
Being of perfect mind and memory and Calling to mind
the mortality of my Body and knowing that all men must
Die, do this fourth day of September in the year of our lord
one thousand Eight hundred & forty nine make this my Last
Will and testament in manner and form as follows   Vilz.
first I Recommend my Soul into the hands of God who
Give it and my body to the ground to be buried in a
Christian like manner and as touching Such worldly
Estate as it hath pleased god to bless me with
I Despose of in the following manner and form to wit
Item   I wish all my Just Debts paid out of my Estate
By my Executors
Item   I lend my wife Polly Yelverton the whole of my Estate
Lands negroes, Stocks Houshold and kitchen furniture
and property of Every kind or Description whatsoever,
During her nattural life and at and Immediately after
her death to be Divided as follows  Vilz ----------
Item   I give all the land that I now own to my five
youngest Sons to wit
Hyman John Samuel Robert & Ethd. [Etheldred] To be Equally
Divided after Samuels paying the other four one 
Hundred Dollars
Item   I give my Daughter Polloy one negroe Boy Moses
one bed Bedstead and furniture
Item   I give my Daughter Drusilla one negro boy John
one bed Bedstead & furniture
Item   I give my Buggy to my two Daughters
Polly & Drusilla
Item   I wish Abram Sold and the money arising from
the Sale put to the use of Defraying Expence
or in plainer words to the Estate
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Item   And the Ballance of my negroes I Desire to be
Equally Divided between my four Daughters to wit
Winniford Davis Nancy Davis Polly Yelverton &
Drusilla Yelverton
The balance of my property I wish Sold by my
Executors and the profits arriving Equally Divided
among all my Children Share & Share a like
And Lastly I nominate and appoint my two Sons
Hardy Yelverton and John Yelverton my whole and Sole
Executors to this my last will and testament in witness
Whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and affixed my
      Seal the day and date first above Written
John Land                     Eth Yelverton {Seal}
Ethd. Sauls
             Wayne County Feby Court 1851.
Then was the above paper writing purporting
To be the last will & testament of Etheldred Yelverton
produced in open court & offered for probate & was
duly proven by the oaths of John Lane & Etheldred
Sauls two subscribing witness & ordered to be
Recorded – Hardy Yelverton & John Yelverton
Executors therin named appeared in open
Court & Qualified
                        [name] Green Celk
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Will
Recorde 
Feb Co 1851
Feby [10 ?] 1851

Additional Comments:
[Names in will]
Etheldred Yelverton
Wife - Polly
Sons - five youngest – Hyman, John, Samuel, Robert and Etheldred [sometimes 
Ethelred]
Daughters - Polly Yelverton and Drusilla Yelverton
Daughters - Winniford Davis and Nancy Davis
Executors – two sons Hardy Yelverton and John Yelverton
Witnesses – John Land and Etheldred Sauls
Slaves – boy Moses, boy John and Abram

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