Dear Kincaid-listers, I was transcribing some Duncan wills, one of Nancy Ann Duncan, my granfather Carl G. Duncan's grandmother, at the bottom of the will was this:     Be it remembered that on the 1st day of August A.D. 1892 W.H. Anderson & J.A. Anderson personally                 appeared  before me  the Deputy Register for the Probate of Wills, in and for said county, they being the             subscribing witnesses to the  forgoing last will and testament of Nancy Ann Duncan, late of Darlington                 Borough, deceased, and after being duly sworn  according to law, did depose and say that they were present     and saw the said Nancy Ann Duncan sign the foregoing  instrument of writing by making her mark she being         too feeble to write and heard her publish, pronounce, and declare  the same to be her last will and testament         and at the time of her so doing the testator was of sound and disposing mind  memory and understanding to         the best of deponent’s knowledge, observation, and belief and that they signed the same  as witnesses thereto     at the request of said testator.    And now the testimony of the above name witnesses  being sufficient  I do hereby admit the foregoing will to   Probate and order the same to be recorded as such.    John A. Sturgeve, Deputy Register I had wondered about some wills signed with a mark.  It does not necessarily mean that the person signing didn't know how to write, it could be that the testator was too weak or incapacitated to write a signature.  A stroke could cause such incapacity, even though the person could still communicate personal desires in a will or codicil. Sincerely Norman Kincaide