In Re Will of Groce

T. A. Groce died at the home of a neighbor, in Yadkin County, North Carolina, on 2 February, 1928. He lived about a half-mile from the home of this neighbor. He had stopped, for a short visit, at his neighbor’s home, while returning to his own home from a rural mailbox, where he had gone to mail letters to his sons. While there, engaged in conversation, he became ill, suddenly, and died almost immediately. After his death, and before his body was removed from the place where he died, in the presence of his sons, caveators in this proceeding, and of friends, who had been notified of his death,…