In Re the Will of Brown

George II. Brown died at his home in the town of Washington, Beaufort County, N. 0., on 16 March, 1926. He was born in said town on 3 May, 1850. He was therefore in his seventy-seventh year at the date of his death.

From 1872, when he was duly licensed to practice as an attorney and counsellor at law in this State, until 1889, when he was appointed judge of the Superior Court for the First Judicial District, he was actively and continuously engaged in the practice of his profession. From 1889 to 1905 he served continuously as a judge of the Superior Court. On *5851 January, 1905, having been…