I MATTHEW NOEL OF THE COUNTY OF PARKE AND STATE OF IND. DO MAKE AND PUBLISH THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT.

FIRST I DESIRE THAT MY FUNERAL EXPENSES BE FIRST PAID OUT OF MY PERSONEL

ESTATE.

2ND. IT IS MY WILL THAT AFTER MY FUNERAL EXPENSES ARE PAID THAT MY BELOVED WIFE MYRA SHALL HAVE ALL MY PERSONEL PROPERTY TO USE AND DISPOSE OF THE SAME IN THE MANNER SHE MAY DEEM PROPER.

3RD. I DIRECT THAT MY EXCUTOR HEREINAFTER NAMED SHALL HAVE FULL POWER ANDAUTHORITY TO SELL AND DISPOSE OF SO MUCH OF MY TOWN PROPERTY ( CONSISTING OF HOUSES AND LOTS) AS MAY BE FOUND NECESARY TO PAY AND DISCHARGE ALL MY DEBTS.

IT IS MY WILL THAT MY BELOVED WIFE MYRA SHALL HAVE AND ENJOY ALL MY

REALESTATE REMAINING AFTER MY DEBTS ARE PAID. DURING HER LIFE AND AT HER DEATH THE SAME SHALL GO TO MY CHILDREN IN EQUAL PROPORTIONS . PROVIDED MY SAID CHILDREN SHALL ALL BE LIVING AT THE DEATH OF MY WIFE. AND IN THE EVENT THAT ANY OF MY SAID CHILDREN SHALL NOT BE LIVING AT THE DEATH OF MY WIFE, THEN IN THAT CASE IT IS MY WILL THAT THE RESPECTIVE PORTION WHICH THEY WERE TO HAVE TAKEN UNDER MY WILL PROVIDED THEY WERE LIVING AS AFORESAID SHALL GO TO THEIR CHILDREN IN EQUAL PROPORTION.

5TH I GIVE AND BEQUEATH TO MY SON JOHNSONTWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS OUT OF MY ESTATE IN ADDITION TO AN EQUAL SHARE AS AFORESAID TO BE PAID TO HIM AT THE TIME AND IN THE MANNER THE EXCEYTOR MAY DEEM PROPER.

6TH. I NOMINATE ORDAIN AND APPOINT ALEXANDER PUETT AND JOHNSON P. NOEL MY SON EXCUETOR OF THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT.

MATTHEW NOEL(seal)

Signed sealed delivered and declared by the said Matthew Noel as his last will and testament, inference of us, and attested by us in presence of the said testatio, and in the prescenc of each other attest

Johnsoh h. white (seal) S. Rogers (seal)

Forty years a Juror

Few are the Pioneer citizens of Parke County now remaining. Last Saturday morning at about 11o'clock passed away a man long known to rockville, Justice Scott Noel. He was born near haroldsburg Kentucky May 20, 1808, being 80 years 8 months and 12 days old. When he was about 10 years old his parents moved to sulivan County this state, where they remained one year. From there they went to Monroe county and finally came to Parke county in the fall of 1823 where he has since resided except a short time when he lived at Fort Branch.

April 20, 1829 he married Peninah Morris with whom he lived unti8l her death in 1880. They had two children William m. and Elizabeth, both of whom have been dead many years. Of his eleven brothers and sisters five survive him as follows: Samuel, coleman and Sedrick Noel and Mrs. Patsy Puett and Mrs. Sally Burford, For about forty-five years Scott Noel was a member of the M. E,. Church and died trusting in his Savior.

The most remarkable feature in his long life was the unusual length of time he performed the offices of a Justice of the Peace. His brother Matthew was about, if not the first, justice in the county. At the April election in 1848 Scott was elected to the offie, his opponent being A. Hart, who received one vote against 275 for Noel . This shows great popularity or an over whelming majority of his party. Almost continuously since then he has held the office. Two years he was mail agen from Rockville to Evansville. For many years Mr. Noel ws a dry goods merchabnt, and in fact like the pioneers in general in early life he tried many ways of making a living. For instance he knew how to lay brick and worked on the old brick courthouse.

Many interesting stories of his early life could doubtless be detailed, for he was a strong man and took full part in all interesting occurances of early Rockville days. Squire Noel stood six feet four inches in his stocking feet and was remarkably erect to the last. Whatever may be said of him this must be admitted, that he never betrayed public confidence.

His last illness was short but full of suffering. Taken with a chill the Sunday before he died he was badly ill from the first. The funeral took place from the residence of his sister Mrs. Burford Sunday afternoon and was largely attended. Revs. Cummings and Campbell conducted the services. Full of years he was laid to rest among the fathrs.

OBIT ROCKVILLE TRIBUNE JUNE1, 1893:

DIED AT HER HOME IN ROCKVILLE, INDIANA MAY 24, 1893, PATSY PUETT AGED 82

PATSY NOEL WAS BORN IN MERCER COUNTY KENTUCKY, FEB. 11, 1811, BEING THE

DAUGHTER OF LEWIS NOEL, WHO IN 1818 MOVED TO CARLISLE, IN SULLIVAN COUNTY,

AND THE NEXT YEAR TO MONROE COUNTY, HIS WAS THE ONLY WHITE FAMILY, WITH ONE EXCEPTION , IN THAT PART OF THE COUNTRY AT THAT TIME,THE LARGEST PORTION OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE FORESTS BEING INDIANS. IN 1824 MR. NOEL MOVED TO PARKE CO. AND TWO YEARS LATER PATSY MARRIED JOHNSON PUETT, WHO SHE WAS A CONSTANT AND FAITHFUL HELPMATE UNTIL HIS DEAATH I 1890 . A FAMILY OF NINE CHILDREN WERE BORN OF THIS UNION. HER SURVIVING RELATIVES ARE ONE SISTER, MRS SALLIE BURFORD AND THREE BROTHERS, SAMUEL, COLEMAN AND SEDFRICK NOEL, FOUR SONS, FIFTEEN GRANDCHILDREN, TWENTY EITHT GREAT GRAND CHILDREN AND ONE GREAT, GREAT, GRANDCHILD, FOR SIXTY YEARS SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE BAPTIST CHURCH HER FATHER DONATING THE LOT UPON WHICH THE FIRST CHURCH OF THAT DENOMINATION WAS BUILT IN ROCKVILLE. MRS PUETT HAD LONG BORNE THE AFFECTIONATE APPELLATION OF AUNT PATSY AND HER KINDLY FACE AND CHEERFUL VOICD TOUCHED THE TROUBLED SOUL LIKE A BENEDICTION FROM HEAVEN. HER'S WAS THE CALMNESS THAT BELONGS TO THOSE WHOSE FAITH HAS A FIRM FONDATION, AND WHOSE TREASURES ARE IN A SAFE PLACE WHERE NEIGHER MOTH NBOR RUST DOTH CORRUPT. fAITHFUL WIFE, MOTHER, SISTER, FRIEND HER LIFE , THROUGH ITS HISTORY MAY NEVER BE WRITTEN IN A GILT BOUND VOLUME HERE, IS RECORDED BY AN ANGEL'S PEN IN THE BOOK OUT OF WHICH THE DEAD ARE JUDGED ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS. HER DAUGHTERS LONG GONE BEFORE, THEIR PLACE AT HER BEDSIDE WAS TAKEN BY THE WIVES OF HER SONS WHO TENDERLY CARED FOR HER TO THE LAST. THUS WITH THE LOVE OF HER FRIENDS AND THE RESPECT OF ALL WHO KNEW HER, SHE FELL

ASLEEP TO WAKE WHERE THERE IS NEITHER SORROW OR CRYING.

!OBIT: ROCKVILLE TRIBUNE 2/21/1895;

SALLIE NOEL DAUGHTER OF LEWIS AND AMY NOEL, WS BORN IN MERCER COUNTY, KY. SEPT 15, 1813 DIED FEB. 14, 1895 AGED 81 YEARS , 4 MONTHS AND 29 DAYS.

SHE CAME FROM HER BIRTHPLACE TO CARLISLE, IND. WITH HER PARENTS, FROM THERE TO MONROE COUNTY AND IN 1854 TO PARKE CO. WHERE IN MAY, 1835 SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO JAMES BURFORD. TO THEM WERE BORN TEN CHILDREN, TWO OF WHOM ARE LIVING, WILLIAM AND MARY. MRS BURFORED UNITED WITH THE BAPTIST CHURCH IN 1841 HER HUSBAND AND HERSELF BEING BAPTIZED BY REV. RILEY. MRS BURFORD'S GRANDFATHER NOEL WAS A MINISTER OF THE BAPTIST CHURCH.