The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-03-11
MRS. Nj. G. READEs WILL.
.THE ESTATE ESTIMATED TO BE
\ WORTH SOMETHING OVER
SIXTY THOUSAND
DOLLARS.
Liberal Requests to Albemarle Presby-
terry and Barium Springs Orphan
age--S5oo to Soldiers Home--
Nearly allthe Estate Divided
Among Relatives.
Among Relatives.

Nearly oil Tie LSidNC GtSsGOSs
Among Relatives.
The will Of the late Mrs. Mary b.
Reade. widow of the late Judge f. 81.
Reade, was admitted TO probate before
the clerk Of the Superior court yester-
day afternoon.
den qualified as executors. They estl-
mate the estate to be worth something
over 100000.
The following is the viii, in full:
s.In the nameof God Amen.
81 Mary E. Reade, of the county OF
Wake, State of North Carolina, do
make, publish and declare this to be
nv last will and testament.
II direct my executor, herein after
named, shall pay my funeral expenses,
and all my Just debts, that / may leave
unpaid. Ny husband, Il. q. Reade, left
me two hundred shares of National
Bank of Raleigh stock, the interest OF
the same during my life, and the dis
posal to his relatives as | direct
Il give to my husbands four ne
phews named for him each twenty
shares Of stock named above. Edwin
Barnell Reade, Edwin r. Noell, Edwin
Goodwin Long and Edwin Goodwin
Reade.
II give to my namesalxe, Mary Eliza
beth Reade, daughter of Walter Reade,
ten shares of stock: to my nephew,
James p. Harden, of Graham, ten
shares: to my niece, Mrs. Emma Har-
din. of Graham, ten shares. ] give to
Mrs. Lizzie NOEL, of Durham, twenty
shares: to Mrs. Lulu Bowen, of Mt.
Tirzah ten shares.
II give five shares each to Robert
Percival Reade, Life Reade, Sue Bette
Reade. Elizabeth Baily Reade, Annie
Long. daughter of Rachel Long, Nina
NOEL. Arthur Reade and Washington
+. Reade. son of Thomas Reade.
Il give Of my own property the
following bequests: to my nephew. j.
w. Harden. forty shares of stock own
ed BY me in the National Bank of Raj
eigh. to my cousin, Mrs. Miriam VIII
liams. thirty shares: to my cousins,
Mrs. Martha Riddle and Ellen Bernard,
living in Durham, twenty shares each;
to nv cousins, Mrs. Laura Brown and
Annie CuthreH. living in Granville,
one thousand dollars each in money;
to my cousin, Mrs. Margaret Gloss, five
shares Of stock: to my aunt, Ellen
Farrow, and her daughter, Emma Wat
son. living in Hyde county, each one
thousand dollars in money.
II give five hundred dollars in mon
ev to NV cousin, Ella Primrose, TO as
sist in the education of her daughter,
Eliza Primrose: to my cousin, Mrs.
Mary Ann Rumley, living in Washing
ton. N. C.. one thousand dollars IN
money: to nv cousin, Henrietta Rum
lev. five hundred dollars in money, liv-
ing in the same place: to my niece,
Annie Hardin, my nine hundred dol
lars certificate of stock; to Mrs. Nam
ME Lee, five shares of stock; to Mrs.
Hattie Brown three shares Of stock. !
give to my friends, Katie Belvin, Bessie
Belyin and Mamie Belyin, my Adams
note for two thousand dollars to be
divided equally between them.
ssTo my friend, Mrs Mary Blacknall,
five shares Of bank stock; to my cou-
sins. Lulu Van Nortwiclx and rs.Mary
Matthews. living in Rocky Mount, five
hundred dollars In money each: IN
memory of my brother, Capt. William
Shaw. of the Confederate Army, / give
five hundred dollars to the Soldiers
Home, III Raleigh; ! give to Barium
Springs orphanage, two thousand dol
lars in money; to AIbemarle Presby-
terv.I give two thousand dollars in mon
ey. for the building of churches and
mission work: give to Sylvester Dib-
bic. nv old servant, five hundred dol
lars in money: to my old servant Maria
Boushall. living in Salisbury, one hun
bred dollars IN money; 10 Sally TIP
church. one hundred dollars. to be
used in buying her home. to be pur-
chased by rny nephew. j. W.. Harden
I give to Mrs. Sallie Gallagher. living
ia Washington. n. c., Mrs. Laura White
and my cousin Fiavius Small, living il
Virginia. who has crippled daughter
two hundred dollars each: the remain
der 10 nav nephew. j. w. Harden. who
has been like an affecfionate son to me
II appoint C. III. Belvin and ny
nephew. j. ". Harden, executors te
this. my last viii and testament
MARY II. READE.
February r, 1896.
There are no signatures Of witnesses
to the viii. T. If. Briggs, Mrs. A. VI
Bagley and Mrs \. w. Daniels proved
the handwriting.
This was Photograph viii, found
among her valuable papers.
Section 214s Of the Code provides:
sin case of a Photograph will, on the
oath Of at least three credible witnesses
,Sho state that they verify believe such
will and every part thereof is in the
handwriting of the person whose will
IL pnrports to be. and whose name
must be subscribed thereto. or inserted
In some part thereof. 1t must further
appear on the oath of some one Of said
witnesses. or of some other credible
persons, that such will was found a
mong the valuable papers and effects
Of the decedent or waslodged in the
hands OF some person for safe keeping