YANCEY COUNTY, NC - WILLS - Noah Letterman, 28 Nov 1894
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Yancey County Record of Wills
Volume # 2, page 77
Microfilm # C.107.80001
 

State of North Carolina, Yancey County
I NOAH LETTERMAN of the County and State aforesaid being of Sound mind and in 
feeble health do hereby make and declare this Instrument to be my last will 
and Testament.
1st I will and bequeath my soul to God who gave it and my body to a common 
grave in the earth.
2nd I will and bequeath to my daughter MARY JANE HENSLEY all of my personal 
property consisting of Household and kitchen furniture, farming tools and 
livestock, consisting of cattle, hogs and other articles now belonging to me 
or that I may lawfully own at my decease.
I also will and bequeath to her the said MARY J. HENSLEY my home place where I 
now live containing thirty four acres more or less the said tract of land was 
by me conveyed to D. W. LETTERMAN with an agreement that he should take care 
and maintain both me & my wife SARAH LETTERMAN during our natural lives. Which 
said agreement he has willfully failed to comply with and has never furnished 
said support or any part thereof. And said support and cow having been 
furnished by the aforesaid MARY J. HENSLEY and her husband W. M. HENSLEY 
and now I Therefore declare as my last will and Testament that they shall 
justly possess and enjoy the same for their service in caring for me in my 
last sickness.
Given under my hand and seal and dated on the 28th day of November, 1894.

N. Letterman

Attested by
B. ?. Horton
A. Bailey
H. R. Peak
W. M. Randolph