Amanuensis Monday is a genealogy blogging theme. It was started by John Newmark who writes the TransylvanianDutch blog.
His definition of Amanuensis is:
Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.
Today’s subject is the Last Will and Testament of Ellen Deese.1
Transcription:
NORTH CAROLINA
ROBESON COUNTY
I, Ellen Dees, of the aforesaid county and state, being of sound mind and memory, but considering the uncertainty of this life, do make, publish and declare this my last will and testament:
Item I: My executor, hereinafter named, shall pay all my just debts and funeral expenses out of the first moneys which shall come into his hands belonging to my estate.
Item 2 My house and lot in the City of Lumberton, I hereby give and devise unto my nephew Owen Lafayette Dees for and during the term of his natural life, and at his death, the same shall go to and belong to such child or children as he shall leave him surviving, share and share alike, and in fee simple.
Item 3: All of the rest, residue and remainder of my property, of whatsoever kind, and wheresoever the same may be situated, I give, devise and bequeath unto my nephew, Robert Clinton Dees, to be his absolutely and in fee simple,
Item 4: I hereby constitute and appoint my friend F.D. Hackett, as executor of this my last will and testament - hereby declaring utterly void all other wills and testaments by me heretofore made.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this 22nd day of March, 1947.
Ellen X her mark Dees {Seal}
Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said
Ellen Deese to be her last will and testament, in
the presence of us, who at her request and in her
presence, and in the presence of each other, do
subscribe our names as witnesses thereto.
Mrs. Ethel Cullins Hackett
Mrs. Frances H. Daniels
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
Robeson County,
A paper writing purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Ellen Dees deceased, is exhibit before me, the undersigned Cleric Superior Court, for said County by F. D. Hackett, the executor therein mentioned, and the due execution thereof by the said Ellen Dees is proved by the oath and examination of Mrs. Ethel Cullins Hackett and Mrs. Frances H. Daniels, the subscribing witness thereto: who being duly sworn, do depose and say, and each for her self deposeth and saith that she is a subscribing witness to the paper writing now shown her purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Ellen Dees; that the said Ellen Dees in the presence of these deponents subscribed her name by mark at the end of said paper writing, which is now shown as aforesaid, and which bears date of the 22nd day of March 1951.
AND THE DEPONENTS FURTHER SAY: That the said Ellen Dees, the testatrix aforesaid, did at the time of subscribing her name as aforesaid, declare the said paper writing so subscribed by her and exhibited to be her last Will and Testament, and these deponents did thereupon subscribe their names at the end or said Will as attesting witnesses thereto, and at the request and in the presence of the said testatric <sic>, and in the presence of each other. And these deponents further, say that at the said time when the said testatrix subscribed her name to the said last Will as aforesaid, and at the time of the deponent’s subscribing their names as attesting witnesses thereto, as aforesaid, the
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said Ellen Dees 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.
Mrs. Ethel Cullins Hackett
Mrs. Frances H. Daniels
Severally sworn and subscribed this 31st day of December, 1951, before me.
B. F. McMillan
Clerk Superior Court
And thereupon, it is considered and adjudged by the Court that the said paper-writing and every part thereof is the last Will and Testament of Ellen Dees, deceased, and it is ordered that the same, with the foregoing examination and this certificate, be recorded and tiled.
This the 31st day of December, 1951.
Filed Dec 29, 1951
B. F. McMillan, C.S,C.
Robeson Co. N. C.
Ellen Deese was the daughter of Robert Clinton Deese and Julia Best. I have no evidence that she ever married. Her spinster status is supported by the fact that she left her estate to her nephews.
Ellen Deese is my 2nd Cousin twice removed.
____________________________
[1] Last Will and Testament - Ellen Deese (1947), WILL BOOK: 10; pages 401-402; Probate Office, Lumberton, Robeson County, North Carolina.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9GCC-FD?i=235&wc=32GQ-FMQ%3A169903301%2C170278502&cc=1867501
NORTH CAROLINA
ROBESON COUNTY
I, Ellen Dees, of the aforesaid county and state, being of sound mind and memory, but considering the uncertainty of this life, do make, publish and declare this my last will and testament:
Item I: My executor, hereinafter named, shall pay all my just debts and funeral expenses out of the first moneys which shall come into his hands belonging to my estate.
Item 2 My house and lot in the City of Lumberton, I hereby give and devise unto my nephew Owen Lafayette Dees for and during the term of his natural life, and at his death, the same shall go to and belong to such child or children as he shall leave him surviving, share and share alike, and in fee simple.
Item 3: All of the rest, residue and remainder of my property, of whatsoever kind, and wheresoever the same may be situated, I give, devise and bequeath unto my nephew, Robert Clinton Dees, to be his absolutely and in fee simple,
Item 4: I hereby constitute and appoint my friend F.D. Hackett, as executor of this my last will and testament - hereby declaring utterly void all other wills and testaments by me heretofore made.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this 22nd day of March, 1947.
Ellen X her mark Dees {Seal}
Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said
Ellen Deese to be her last will and testament, in
the presence of us, who at her request and in her
presence, and in the presence of each other, do
subscribe our names as witnesses thereto.
Mrs. Ethel Cullins Hackett
Mrs. Frances H. Daniels
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
Robeson County,
A paper writing purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Ellen Dees deceased, is exhibit before me, the undersigned Cleric Superior Court, for said County by F. D. Hackett, the executor therein mentioned, and the due execution thereof by the said Ellen Dees is proved by the oath and examination of Mrs. Ethel Cullins Hackett and Mrs. Frances H. Daniels, the subscribing witness thereto: who being duly sworn, do depose and say, and each for her self deposeth and saith that she is a subscribing witness to the paper writing now shown her purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Ellen Dees; that the said Ellen Dees in the presence of these deponents subscribed her name by mark at the end of said paper writing, which is now shown as aforesaid, and which bears date of the 22nd day of March 1951.
AND THE DEPONENTS FURTHER SAY: That the said Ellen Dees, the testatrix aforesaid, did at the time of subscribing her name as aforesaid, declare the said paper writing so subscribed by her and exhibited to be her last Will and Testament, and these deponents did thereupon subscribe their names at the end or said Will as attesting witnesses thereto, and at the request and in the presence of the said testatric <sic>, and in the presence of each other. And these deponents further, say that at the said time when the said testatrix subscribed her name to the said last Will as aforesaid, and at the time of the deponent’s subscribing their names as attesting witnesses thereto, as aforesaid, the
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said Ellen Dees 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.
Mrs. Ethel Cullins Hackett
Mrs. Frances H. Daniels
Severally sworn and subscribed this 31st day of December, 1951, before me.
B. F. McMillan
Clerk Superior Court
And thereupon, it is considered and adjudged by the Court that the said paper-writing and every part thereof is the last Will and Testament of Ellen Dees, deceased, and it is ordered that the same, with the foregoing examination and this certificate, be recorded and tiled.
This the 31st day of December, 1951.
B. F. McMillan
Clerk Superior Court
Filed Dec 29, 1951
B. F. McMillan, C.S,C.
Robeson Co. N. C.
Ellen Deese was the daughter of Robert Clinton Deese and Julia Best. I have no evidence that she ever married. Her spinster status is supported by the fact that she left her estate to her nephews.
Ellen Deese is my 2nd Cousin twice removed.
____________________________
[1] Last Will and Testament - Ellen Deese (1947), WILL BOOK: 10; pages 401-402; Probate Office, Lumberton, Robeson County, North Carolina.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9GCC-FD?i=235&wc=32GQ-FMQ%3A169903301%2C170278502&cc=1867501
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