The news & observer., 1905-01-08
J.H' AFFORD S WILL
Proved Yesterday Before
CIerk---Left Business
to Partners.

AHe Two Wits OF the late Deacon
j. IA. Afford who was killed BY n IS
Bynum, We're admitted to probate nv
Clerk of the Court Russ Yesterday
The more recent viii. which was dated
on September 20. 1902, is a holograph
the other, which is changed in it's pro-
visions by the later will having been
written several years previously and
haNng been attested by witnesses
Both Wills are in the handwriting
| OF the dead man and are largely his
torical and explanatory. They com
bine a diary with the wishes of the
testator as TO the disposition of his
property In the first will Deacon Al
Iord tells OF his coming as a lad to
Raleigh, his apprenticeship. his later
work, MS marriage, ETC. In the holo-
graph. he deVotes himself largely to a
recapiuiation Of his connection with
the firm of Afford. Bynum and Chris
tophers, the financial troubles of which
may be said indirectly to have occa-
stoned the tragedy by which Mr. AL
ford lost his life.
In the holograp the testator states
that the firm owed him in 1902 out
side of his initial investment the sum
of $1,550, which he had borrowed in
several notes on his own individual re-
sponsibility.
The executor named in the viii is
". n. Jones, ESQ and the beauests
specifically are ais follows:
$10O to the Cemetery Association,
interest to be used in keeping grave
plot in repair; $500 and his dwelling
house and its contents to Mrs. Sarah
NJ Stallings, of Franklin county: $500
TO Adeline, an old family servant:
$500 TO Mrs Robert f. Batkins, Of
Richmond, the widow of the brother
Of his wife; $3.50 to Mrs. Johnson
widowed daughter of Mrs. Batkins:
| $500 to j. G. Marcom now dead. his
former business partner; $500 10 a
widowed half sister, Mrs. Julia Dam
iels, of Dry Wells. Nash county. the
Thomas lot' and the shop house,
$3.50 and house on New Bern Avenue
TO half sister Mrs. Lula JOINER: $3.50
To Ben. Afford a half brother. ana
two tenant houses on Edenton stree,
extended: $500 TO his cousin. Louisa
Hines. of Justice. n. c., she TO retain
800 for herself and TO give to the
children Of her parents 500 each
$500 to Mrs. Willie Allen Richardson
$500 to the Woman's Missionary So
ciety; $100 to the Baptist Female
University; and S100 to the Baptist
OrDhanage at Oxford,
The estate consisted of money and
property valued at about $4,000.
As TO the Firm.
The recitals in the viii as to the
connection of the testator with the
firm OF Afford, Bynum and Christie
piers are in part as follows:
II really consider the establishment
broke as the parlance goes. and the
burden is on me- both Mr. Bynum
and Mr.. Christophers being irrespon-
sible. They both. however. have la
bored to make the Office a success
but all our combined efforts have
proved unavailing. unless the future
has a deliverance for US. The fact is
the employees OF the office and the
stock men have got the lions share
and the members of the firm have
only had the leayings. l fear the
stock men will be left. too, in the
future, unless we can have success
enough TO pay them.
'"rhe above is given for the infor-
nation OF Mr.. Jones, so that he can
shape his course accordinglW
Nov, / wish Mr.. Jones 10 give to
Messrs. Bynum and Christophers the
printing office and the 5000 which /
advanced as mentioned in the back
part OF the book Tin the office). Also
pay the balance of the Wake Forest
note ($200) out Of my estate except
the interest. which the Office is to pay.
Give them the office and all of the
accounts due the same and the $500
just mentioned and pay for them the
l$200 due on the Wake Forest note.
with this special understanding that
they are TO relieve my estate from all
other Office Indebtedness. And should
Messrs. Bynum and Christophers. for
any reason. fail to SO relieve my ee
tate, then Mr. Jones is directed to re-
assert all my claims against the Of
flee, and sell the establishment. and
wind it up the best he can.
The two Wills comprise a long docu-
ment which must have been written
from time TO time. There are well
over five thousand words in the manu-
script and it will take some days and
require a good deal of work to accur-
ately digest the mass of writing. the
first viii taken in connection with the
holograph codicil so as to determine
exactly what are the amounts and
proportions of the various beauests
which have been made.
To Cure "a Cold in One Day.