"Valentine" - Transcription of Valentine (Val) Winecoff's Last Will and Testament

Valentine Winecoff, Sr. (13 November 1816 - 16 July 1887) is my maternal 5th great-uncle.  His brother, Mathias (1807-1876), is my maternal 4th great-grandfather.

Transcription of Valentine Winecoff's Last Will and Testament

State of North Carolina

Cabarrus County

I Valentine Winecoff, of the county and state aforesaid being of sound and disposing mind and memory, do make and declare this my last Will and Testament, in the manner and form following, that is to say –

Item 1st. I give and devise to my beloved wife Eliza Winecoff the Plantation on which I now live and with it – the Sheep Pasture which I now use said sheep pasture being in the bounds of the plantation on which my son Ross Davis Winecoff now lives.  (being 184 acres know as the A. C. McRee Home place and the sheep pasture not yet surveyed, joining it.)  I also will and devise to her the Rogers tract of 120 acres.  And with these said lands I will and devise to my said wife Eliza Winecoff all of my personal property to have and to hold the same both Real Estate and Personal Property during her natural life or widowhood.

Item 2nd. I will and devise to my daughter Karen Keziah Walter the plantation on which she now lives containing 103 acres more or less to her and her bodily heirs forever.

Item 3rd. I will and devise to my son Ross Davis Winecoff the remainder of the plantation on which he now lives after the sheep pasture is surveyed off (paid pasture not to exceed 12 acres) to him and his bodily heirs forever.

(There is not an Item 4 in the document.)

Item 5.  I will and devise to my son John Eugene Lee Winecoff as his portion of my estate ($1500) one thousand & five hundred dollars in cash to be paid to him as he needs it.

Item 6.  I will and devise that the Plantation which I have given my son Caleb Mathias Winecoff shall be his entire portion of my estate.  said Plantation joins Wilson Winecoff’s lands and contains (79) seventy nine acres more or less.

Item 7.  I will and devise that the children of Mary Julianna Overcash (being my grandchildren) shall each be paid ($25) twenty five dollars in cash provided they are satisfied with that amount, otherwise they are to receive nothing.

Item 8th.  Upon the death of my wife Eliza Winecoff I will devise and bequeath to my son Warner Jamison Winecoff The Plantation and Sheep Pasture mentioned in Item 1st of this will and (10) Ten acres of Bottom land off the upper end of the Rogers Place making in all about (206) Two hundred & six acres.  I also will and devise that my daughter Lunett (sic) Isabella Winecoff shall have the remainder of the Rogers place being (110) one hundred & ten acres more or less to them and their bodily heirs forever.

Item 9th.  I will and devise to my son Warner Jamison Winecoff the wagons yearing and all the tools in use on the Plantation provided he complys (sic)with the foregoing Items of this will said Plantation being the one on which I know live and two horses or mules his choice.

Item 10.  I also will and devise that after the foregoing clauses are complyed (sic) with that all the live stock and any property not mentioned in this will shall be sold at Public sale and the money be equally divided amongst the children of my said wife Eliza Winecoff and that all surplus monies, if any be divided in the same way.  And lastly I do here by constitute and appoint my son John Eugene Lee Winecoff my lawful executor to all intents and purposes to execute this my last will and Testament according to the true meaning and intent of the same and every part and clause thereof hereby revoking and declaring uterly (sic) void all other Wills and Testaments by me here to fore made.  In witness where of I the said Valentine Winecoff do here unto set my hand and seal this 25th day of March 1885

signed sealed Published  his

Valentine   X Winecoff     Seal

Mark

and declared in the presence of us

by the said V. W. to be his last will and Testament

and we at his request do

subscribe our names as witnesses there to

Harvey (illegible) Rogers

T(?) 6xR(?) C. M. Petree(?)

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Transcription of the 02 Sep 1876 State of North Carolina Will of Probate for Mathias John Winecoff, Jr. (1805-1876), My Maternal 4th Great-Grandfather

Transcription of the 02 Sep 1876 State of North Carolina

Will of Probate for Mathias John Winecoff, Jr.

State of North Carolina SS. In the Probate Court.

Cabarrus County.

            A Paper purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Mathias Wihnecoff deceased, is exhibited before me, the undersigned, Judge of Probate for the said County, by M. H. Winecoff one of the executors therein mentioned, and the due execution thereof by the said Mathias Winecoff by the oath and examination of Jos. N. Brown & Jos. Gouny the subscribed witnesses 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 Mathias Winecoff that the said Mathias Winecoff in the presence of this deponent subscribed his name at the end of said paper writing, which is now shown as aforesaid, and which beast the date of 2 day of October 1872.

            And the Deponent Further Saith, That the said Mathias Winecoff the teastor aforesaid, did at the time of the subscribing his name as aforesaid declare the said paper writing so subscribed by him, and exhibited to his last Will and Testament, and the deponent did th reupon subscribe his name at the end of said Will, as an attesting witness thereto, and at he request and in the presence of the said testator, this deponent further saith, that at the said tiem when the said testator subscribed his name to the said last Will as aforesaid, and at the time of the deponent’s subscribing his name as an attesting witness thereto, the aforesaid, the said Mathias Winecoff 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 the deponent; And further these deponents say not.

Joseph Gouny(?) (Seal)

J. N. Brown (Seal)

Severally sworn and subscribed this 2 day

of Sept. 1876, before me, Jas C Gibson

How I Descend from Mathias John Winecoff, Jr. My maternal grandmother,
mom, and I (all living) would follow after Sgt. Murl Sanders Litaker, Sr.

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Transcription of the 02 Oct 1872 Last Will and Testament of Mathias John Winecoff, Jr. (1805-1876), My Maternal 4th Great-Grandfather

Transcription of Mathias John Winecoff Jr.'s Last Will and Testament

I Mathias Winecoff of the County of Cabarrus and state of North Carolina being of sound mind and memory and being aware of the uncertainty of life do make my last will and testament as follows viz:

Item 1^st I wish my executors herein after appointed to pay all my just debts.

Item 2^nd I devise and bequeath to my beloved wife Elizabeth one hundred acres of land including my dwelling and outhouses.  The miles and bounds to be selected by her to have and to hold so long as she remains my widow.  I further give and bequeath to my wife all the household and kitchen furniture which she owned previous to our marriage and all the personal property of every kind which she had before our marriage.  I further give and bequeath to my wife one years support (not to exceed the allowance made by law) and three hundred dollars in cash.

Item 3. I devise and bequeath to my son M. H. Winecoff the parcel or tract of land on which he now lives containing one hundred and two acres.  The miles and bounds of which are marked to have and to hold to him and his heirs forever.

Item 4^th I devise that my executors shall sell the balance of my personal property not given to my widow and I devise and bequeath to my grand child Josephine Winecoff five hundred dollars in cash to be paid to my executors and I devise and bequeath to my grand son Joseph N. Winecoff five hundred dollars in cash provided the settlement which I have made of his father’s estate as administrator shall not be interfered with.  I mean by this bequest to Joseph N. Winecoff that as I was Administrator of his father’s estate and the guardian of said Joseph during the war and owing to the troubles and difficulties the became mixed up with Confederate money and liner the war some of the notes have become worthlys and on the 20^th Sept 1871 I charged myself in the return as his guardian with the sum of two hundred and eighty  four 69/100 dollars in good money.  Now if said settlement and return shall stand and if myself or my executors shall not be held to account for any greater sum than two hundred and eight four 69/100 dollars due said Joseph on the 20 Sept 1871.  Then I desire that he the said Joseph shall have five hundred dollars in addition there to from my estate but if any greater sum than two hundred and eighty-four 69/100 shall be claimed on account of my said guardianship then it is my will and desire that that the said Joseph N. Winecoff shall have nothing whatever from my estate.

Item 5^th I devise and bequeath to my children  M. H. Margaret I. Sarah Ann. Harriet M. Layton M. and Jane Elizabeth. the balance of all my real and personal estate to be divided equally between them and in order that the division may be equal it is my will that my son M. H. shall account for the value of the tract of land which I have given him above but in the account he is not to be charged with the value of any improvements he may put on said land.

Item 6^th If my wife shall marry then it is my will and desire that the real estate which I have desired to her in the 2^nd Item shall be divided equally between my children mentioned in the 5^th Item, and if she never marries then at her death the said real estate shall be divided equally among my children mentioned in said 5^th Item.

Item 7^th I constitute and appoint my M. H. and L. M. Winecoff my executors to execute and carry out this my last will and testament.  This 2^nd day of October 1872.

Mathias Winecoff (seal)

Signed and sealed and published as the last will and testament of Mathias Winecoff in our presence and at his request and in his presence he have subscribed our names as witness thereto.

Joseph Louny(?)

J. N. Brown(?)

 Mathias Winecoff Last Will and Testament - page 1 -
North Carolina, Wills and Probate Records, 1665-1998 on Ancestry.com

 Mathias Winecoff Last Will and Testament - page 2 -
North Carolina, Wills and Probate Records, 1665-1998 on Ancestry.com

 Mathias Winecoff Last Will and Testament - page 3 -
North Carolina, Wills and Probate Records, 1665-1998 on Ancestry.com

Depiction of How I Descend from Mathias John Winecoff, Jr. (Note: Below Murl, Sr.,
the pedigree chart would show my maternal grandmother, my mother, and me (all living).)

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