Yes, when you make out your will you can have it recorded at the courthouse for a few dollars more. That may only mean that is when he had the will written. Pat TLNEALY@aol.com wrote: > "Rutherford Co NC Wills & Miscellaneous Records 783-1868" by Wooley & Wooley > Will Book C, pg 79. Will of Price Hambrick made 25 April l808. > Recorded October Court 1817. > > If this abstract is correct, this seems to indicate Price was dec'd by > 1817. Is there any reason to assume the will was recorded before he died? > Date of death on tombstone reported as both 1820 and 1822. > >