Last Will and Testament
of
Mary A. Pope
I, Mary A. Pope, of Shelby County, in the State of Indiana, do hereby make and publish this my last will and Testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me made.
Item 1. It is my will and I direct that all of my just debts, including the expenses of my last sickness and burial be paid out of my estate.
Item 2. I do hereby will and bequeath to Lora Ruth Pope, my grand-daughter, and by by adoption, my daughter, all of the property of which I die the owner, subject only to the provisions of Item 1. of this will.
Item 3. It is my wish that my daughter, Mary Elizabeth Crim shall take
no part of my estate, for the reason that I feel that she has already received more than
her reasonable share of property under the will of my late husband, William B. Pope.
Item 4. I do hereby appoint, Leonard Almaroth, as executor of this my
last will
and testament.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, at the city of
Shelbyville, Indiana, this 22 day of July, 1915.
Mary A. Pope Seal.
The foregoing will was signed, sealed and acknowledged by the said Mary A.
Pope in our presence, and the said will was declared to be her last will and
testament by
the said Mary A. Pope, and at her request and in her presence, and in the
presence of each
other, we now subscribe our names hereto as witnesses, This 22d day of July,
A.D. 1915.
Major R. Wilson
Geo. H. Meiks.
State of Indiana, Shelby County, SS:
Be it remembered, That on the (typist note: blank space here no
date) day
of December, 1916, George H. Meiks one of the subscribing witnesses to the
within and
foregoing last Will and Testament of Mary A. Pope late of said county,
Deceased,
personally appeared before Cecil B. Collins 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 22d day of July 1915
he saw the said
Mary A. Pope sign her name to the said instrument inwriting as and for her
last Will and
Testament; and that this deponent, at the same time, heard the said Mary A.
Pope declare
the said instrument in writing to be her last Will and Testament, and that
the said
instrument in writing was, at the same time, at the request of the said mary
A. Pope and
with her consent attested and subscribed by the said George H. Meiks and
Major R.
Wilson in the presence of said testaer, and in the presence of each other, as
subscribing
witnesses thereto, and that the said Mary A. Pope 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.
Geo. H. Meiks.
Sworn to and subscribed the said George H. Meiks before me, Cecil B. Collins
Clerk of
said Court, at Shelbyville, the......day of December 1916.
IN ATTESTATION WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and
affixed the seal of said court.
(SEAL) Cecil B. Collins Clerk Shelby
Circuit Court.
State of Indiana, Shelby County, SS:
I, Cecil B. Collins Clerk of the Circuit Court of Shelby County, Indiana, do hereby certify that the within annexed Will and Testament of Mary A. Pope has been duly admitted to probate, and duly proved by the testimony of George H. Meiks one of the subscribing witnesses thereto, that a complete record of said Will, and of the testimony of the said George H. Meiks in proof thereof, has been by me duly made and recorded in Book 7 at Pages 182 and 183 of the record of Wills ofsaid County.
IN ATTESTATION WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name,
and affixed the seal of said court, at
Shelbyville, this 27th day of
December 1916.
( SEAL ) Cecil B. Collins Clerk circuit Court, Shelby County
Submitted by Jeanette Crane and Barb Huff
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