Under the terms of his 1948 will, Mattie Barnes Mincey served as executor of her husband Ben Mincey‘s estate. She submitted a final account of receipts and disbursements of cash on 11 July 1951.

The disbursements included:

• $900 to Darden [not Bardin] Memorial Funeral Home. (Interesting, given Mincey had no conventional headstone. What could have cost $900 in 1950?)
• payments to three physicians — J.G. Tillery, William C. Hines, and Boisey O. Barnes.
• a payment to Barrett’s Printing House, which has been in business in downtown Wilson since 1896.
• specific gifts to sister Emma Barnes, sister-in-law Olivia Mincey, and daughters Emma Sharpe and Mae Lille Sharpe.