Last  Will  and  Testament
of
Sarah  E. Fisher, deceased

I,  Sarah E. Fisher  of Shelby County, State of Indiana, hereby make my last will and testament.

          First:  It is my will that all my just debts, and funeral expenses shall be paid, and also expenses of settling my estate, and I want the same paid out of the profits of the sale of my real estate of which I may die siezed.

          Second:  It is my that my daughter  Mary Francis Fisher  shall have all personal property, including all household goods, and amoney (sic) on hand, and I hereby give all such property to her at my decease.

          Third:  It is my will that at my death, my Executor hereinafter named, shall sell all real estate that I then own, and after satisfying, and discharging the obligations mentioned at item first above that the proceeds of sale shall be distributed and given to my children vis:  Edward Fisher, and Mary Francis Fisher; They to take the same share and share alike.

          Fourth:  I hereby appoint my son Edward Fisher Executor of this will. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 10" day of July 1919.

Sarah E. Fisher

Subscribed by the said Sarah E. Fisher in our presence, and by her declared to be her last will and testament, and attested by us as such in her presence, and in the presence of each other this 10" day of July 1919.

Claude R. Henry
William Nading



State of Indiana, Shelby County, SS:

                    Be it remembered that on the 1st day of November, A.D., 1919 the 24" judicial day of the October Term of the Shelby Circuit Court in said year, come into open Court David Smith and produces in Court an instrument in writing purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Sarah E. Fisher, deceased, and now moves the admittance thereof to probate and record, and in proof of said Will introduces Claude R. Henry, One of the subscribing witnesses thereto, who being duly sworn by the Clerk of said Court, on oath, declares and testifies as follows: that is to say: That on the 10" day of July 1919 he saw the said Sarah E. Fisher sign her name to said instrument in writing as and for her last Will and Testament; and that this deponent, at the same time, heard the said Sarah E. Fisher 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 Sarah E Fisher and with her consent attested and subscribed by the said Claude Henry and William Nading in the presence of said testator, and in the presence of each other, as subscribing witnesses thereto, and that the said Sarah E. Fisher 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.

Claude R. Henry


          Sworn to and subscribed by the said Claude R. Henry before me Gordon Thurston Clerk of said Court, at Shelbyville, Indiana, the 1st day of November 1919.

Gordon Thurston, Clerk


          Whereupon it is ordered, adjudged and decreed by the Court that said instrument in writing is the Last Will and Testament of Sarah E. Fisher deceased, and is hereby admitted to probate and record in this Court.

Gordon Thurston, Clerk


State of Indiana, Shelby County, SS:

          I, Gordon Thurston, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Shelby County, Indiana do hereby certify that the within annexed Will and Testament of Sarah E. Fisher has been duly admitted to probate, and duly proved by the testimony of Claude R. Henry one of the subscribing witnesses thereto, that a complete record of said Will and of the testimony of the said Claude R. Henry in proof thereof, has been by me duly made and recorded in Book at pages 441 and 442 of the record of Wills of said County.

          In Attestation Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed myname, and affixed the seal of the said Court at Shelbyville, Indiana, this 1st day of November, 1919.

Gordon Thurston, Clerk Circuit Shelby County.

Transcribed by Pat Lorentzen

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