YANCEY COUNTY, NC - WILLS - Allen Sparkes, 19 Jan 1849
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Yancey County Record of Wills
Volume #1, page 352
Microfilm # C.107.80001

Last Will and Testament of ALLEN SPARKES
NC, Yancey County
January the 19th 1849

As It is appointed unto all men once to die I ALLEN SPARKES in my proper 
Sences at this time but feeling myself Bound to Eternity in a short time in 
Hopes of a Better World through what Jesus has done I therefore leave the 
following as my last will and Testament.
I therefore choose & appoint HARDIN SPARKES & S. M. COLLIS as Executors of my 
will. I design therefore That they shall sell a Sufficiency of my Loose 
property to pay my Just Debts then I design that they shall pay my Daughter 
NANCY PATTON to the amount of fifteen dollars in trade then the balance of my 
loose property and my tract of land where I now live is vested in the hands of 
My Executors as their Right & property for the -------- purpose of maintaining 
my wife BASSHEBA SPARKES her lifetime and also for schooling of my four 
youngest children and when my youngest son WHITFIELD comes of age I design 
that my Executors shall sell the above mentioned tract of land and that the 
amount that it brings be equally divided between my five youngest children, 
four sons & one daughter, the tax to be paid from the production of the land 
and also my tract of land where my son JAMES now lives I will and bequeath 
unto JAMES for the term of six years from this date Rent free, JAMES paying 
the tax for that term of time and at the expiration of the six years I will 
therefore that my Executors sell the said land and the amount it brings be 
equally divided between my five oldest children, three sons and two daughters.
I ALLEN SPARKES in my proper mind assign this as my last will and Testament.

ALLEN SPARKES

Test:
ARTHUR GREEN
REUBIN PITMAN