This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: LAMM, WELLS, HOLOMON, BRYANT, EDWARDS, ROSE, LEWIS, BATCHELOR, TAYLOR, JUDKINS Classification: Will Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VUB.2ACE/597 Message Board Post: Will of Abraham Lamm Nash County, North Carolina March 3, 1868 State of North Carolina Nash County March 3 1868 I Abraham Lamm of the County of Nash & state aforesaid being of sound mind and memory, But considering the uncertainty of my earthly existence, do make and declare this my last will and testament in manner & form following Item 1st I devise that my executors herein after named shall provide for my body a suitable burial suitable to the wishes of my relations & friends and pay all funeral expences together with my just debts however & to whomever owing out of the first money that may come into their hands as a part or parcel of my estate. Item 2d I Loan to my beloved wife Temperance Lamm the tract of Land on which I now live during her lifetime and two 1st choice Beds & furniture and 1st choice Horse and 1st choice cow & calf and Buggy Ten Head 1st choice Hogs and Farming tools to cary an farm. Item 3 - I give and devise unto my Grand Son Wm Lamm after my wife's death the entire tract of Land on which I now live known as Bryant tract being the same tract of land which I loaned to my wife Temperance Lamm. Item 4 - I desire that my executors shall give to my two Grand Daughters Polly Wells & Tempy Lamm fifty dollars each in money Item 5. I give and devise to my Daughter Zinny Holomon one hundred acres of land to be cut off the Rice tract next to Henry Bryants line to include the Houses on the right hand side of the Road going east to be run off in good shape. Item 6. In addition to the hundred Acres of land which I have given my Daughter Zinny Holomon I desire that she shall have one hundred Dollars in money to be paid to her by my executors Item 7. I will & devise unto all my Lawful Heirs Namely Thomas Lamm, Jacob Lamm, Huel Lamm, Zinny Holomon, Elizabeth Edwards, Jno Lamm, Mary Rose & Davis Lamm Heirs of my body all the balance of my property not heretofore disposed off to include the property which I have loaned to my wife Temperance Lamm at her Death except the tract of Land on which I now live and which I have given to my Grandson Wm Lamm - and I want and direct that my executors shall sell the same & divide the money equaly among them all - and lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint my worthy friends Jacob Lamm & Frank Edwards, my Lawful executors to all intents & purposes to execute this my last will & testament according to the true intent & meaning of the same and every part and clause thereoff hereby revoking and declaring utterly void all other wills and testaments by me heretofore made In witness whereof I the said Abraham Lamm do hereunto set my hand & seal this 3rd day March 1868 Abraham (his x mark) Lamm {seal} Witnesses (signed) Geo. N. Lewis Hardy D (his x mark) Batchelor Isaac H (his x mark) Taylor PROBATE OF WILL. State of North Carolina Nash County In the Probate Court. A paper purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Abraham Lamm deceased, is exhibited before me, the undersigned, Judge of Probate for said County, by Jacob Lamm one of the, the Executors thereon named, and the due execution thereof by the said Abraham Lamm by the oath and examination of the subscribing witnesses thereto; who being duly sworn, do depose and say, and each for himself deposeth and saith, that he is a subscribing witness to the paper writing now shown him purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Abraham Lamm. That the said Abraham Lamm in the presence of these deponents subscribed his name at the end of said paper writing, which is now shown as aforesaid, and which bears date of the 3rd day of March 1868. And the deponents, further saith, that the said Abraham Lamm, the testator aforesaid, did at the time of subscribing his name as aforesaid, declare the said paper writing so subscribed by him and exhibited to be his last Will and Testament, and these deponents did thereupon subscribe their names at the end of said Will as attesting witnesses thereto, and at the request, and in the presence of the said Testator. And these deponents, further saith, that at the said time when the said Testator subscribed his name to the said last Will as aforesaid, and at the time of the deponents subscribing their names, as attesting witnesses thereto as aforesaid, the said Abraham Lamm was of sound mind and memory, of full age to execute a Will, and was not under any restraint to the knowledge, information or belief of these deponents, and further these deponents say not. Severally sworn and subscribed this 18 day of Dec 1871, before me, (signed) J. O. Judkins(?) Probate Judge. (signed) Geo. N. Lewis, {Seal.} Isaac H (his x mark) Taylor, {Seal.}