Last  Will  and  Testament
of
John  Hines


John Hines of Shelbyville Indiana being of sound mind and disposing memory do make and publish this as my last Will and testament .

Item 1.  It is my will that after my death all of my just debts including my funeral expense shall be paid out of my estate.
Item 2.  I will and devise to my beloved son, William Hines my gun.
Item 3.  I will and devise to my beloved daughter, Mattie Taylor my melodeon.
Item 4.  I will and devise to my beloved son, George Washington Hines my violin and Fifty Dollars in money.
Item 5.  I will and devise to my beloved daughter, Nettie Hines, my silver watch.
Item 6.  I will and bequeath to my beloved children hereinabove named at items 2-3-4 and 5 my library share and share alike to be divided by them.
Item 7.  I will, bequeath and devise to my beloved wife, Alice Hines, all the residence of my property, real, personal and mixed of every kind and description for and during the term of her natural life and at her death to my beloved children viz:  William Hines, Mattie Taylor, George Washington Hines, and Nettie Hines share and share alike.
Item 8.  I hereby nominate and appoint my son George Washington Hines, executor of my last Will and testament and it is my will that he shall serve as such with out other compensation than the Fifty Dollars named in item four above.
In Witness Whereof I heerunto set my hand and seal this 5th day of July 1911.

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Witness:  Elmer Bassett         John  X  Hines
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Signed and acknowledged by John Hines as his last Will and Testament in our presence and signed by us at his request as attesting witnesses in his presence and in the presence of each other this 5th day of July 1911.
Frank E. Ray
Elmer Bassett


State of Indiana.     Shelby County   SS
                  Be it remembered that on the 6th day of February 1912 Elmer Bassett one of the subscribing witnesses to the within and foregoing last Will and Testament of John Hines, late of said County deceased personally appeared before Otto L. Coyle, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Shelby County in the State of Indiana and being duly sworn by the Clerk of said Court upon his oath, declared and testified as follows, that is to say:  That on the 5th day of July, 1911 he saw the said John Hines sign his name to the said instrument in writing to be his last Will and Testament, and that the said John Hines was at the time of the signing and subscribing of said instrument in writing, as aforesaid of full age (that is, more than twenty-one years of age) and of sound and disposing mind and memory, and not under any coercion or restraint, as the said deponent verily believes, and further deponent says not.
Elmer Bassett

Sworn to and subscribed by the said Elmer Bassett before me Otto L. Coyle, Clerk of said Court at Shelbyville the 6th day of February 1912.

                  In Attestation Whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the seal of said Court.

Otto L. Coyle, Clerk Shelby Circuit Court.
State of Indiana, Shelby County SS:
                  I, Otto L. Coyle, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Shelby County, Indiana, do hereby certify that the within annexed Will and Testament of John Hines has been duly admitted to probate and duly proved by the testimony of Elmer Bassett and of the subscribing witnesses thereo, that a complete record of said Will and of the testimony of the said Elmer Bassett in proof thereof has been by me duly made and recorded in Book 6 pages 105-106 and 107 of the record of Wills of said County.

                  In Attestation thereof I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the seal of said Court, t Shelbyville, this 6th day of February, 1912.
Otto L. Coyle, Clerk Circuit Court of Shelby County.


Transcribed by Pat Lorentzen

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