Sion Page Estate, 1885

Sion Page was born about 1807 in North Carolina. He was a son of Uriah Page and his wife Grace, aka Gracey [Maiden name unknown]. Sion was a farmer. About 1828, he married a young lady by the name of Nancy [LNU]. Since no marriage document has been found, there is no known source document that gives her maiden name.

Sion and Nancy raised a family of nine children on a 160 acres farm in Stanly County; Their family consisted of three sons and six daughters.

On 30 October 1885, Sion Page executed his Last Will and Testament. Sion Page death date is unknown but we  know he died before 12 April 1887, the date of the document presented below. There are 287 on-line trees for Sion Page on Ancestry, I saw little evidence of research but a plentiful supply of misinformation. According to those trees Sion died in October 1885, 1887 and before 1896. Also, most of these trees has a first name of Simon for Sion Page. After 46 years of research I haven’t yet found their source document. All my documents shows my 3rd Great Grandfather to be Sion Page.

Transcription:  

State of North Carolina}        In the Superior Court

Stanly County}
            A paper purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Sion Page, deceased, is exhibited before me the undersigned Clerk of Superior Court for said County, by W. A. Hartsell, the executor Therein named, and the due execution thereof by the said Sion Page, by the oath and Examination of Conrad Craton and G. N. Craton the subscribing witnefses thereto: Who being duly sworn doth 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 Sion Page  That the said Sion Page in the presence of the deponent Subscribed his name at the end of said paper writing which is now shown as aforesaid, and which have date of the 20th day of October 1885.
        And the Deponent further saith, That the said Sion Page 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 this deponent did thereupon Subscribe his name at the end of said Will, as an attesting Witness Thereto, and at the request and in the presence of said Testator,
    And this deponent 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 deponent subscribing their names as attesting Witnefses thereto , as aforesaid, the said Sion Page was of Sound Mind ands memory, of full age to execute a Will, and was not under any restraint to the knowledge, information or belief of this deponent. And further these deponents say not.
                            C. Craton {Seal}
                            G. N. Craton {Seal}

Severally Sworn and Subscribed
This 12th day of April 1887
Before me.
    S. H. Milton C.S.C.
        Stanly County

Sion Page is my 3rd Great Grand Father.

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1. Stanly County, North Carolina, : WILL BOOK 2 Page 153-154; Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.