Last Will and Testament
of
Annie M. Wilson
Know all
men by these presents, that I Annie M. Wilson, being of sound mind and
memory, do hereby make and declare the following to be my last Will and
Testament, do hereby revoking and all former Wills heretofore at any time made
by me.
Item 1. I will and direct that all my
just debts be paid out of my estate by my executor hereinafter named out of any
money that may be made available for that purpose.
Item
2. I will, devise and bequeath all
the residue of my estate, real and personal wherever situate to my beloved
sister Sarah M. Wilson, with whom I have lived for many years, the same
to go to her in fee simple and as her absolute property.
Item
3. I hereby nominate and appoint my
sister Sarah M. Wilson as the Executor of this my last Will and Testament.
In Witness
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 6th day of July
1914.
Annie M. Wilson (SEAL)
The
foregoing Instrument is this day signed and declared by the above named Annie
M. Wilson to be her last Will and Testament in our presence and is hereto
signed by us in her presence and in the presence of each other and at her
request as attesting witnesses thereto. This July 6th 1914.
R. W. Harrison
Albert F. Wray
State of Indiana, Shelby county, SS
Be it
remembered, that on the 15th day of January A.D. 1915 the __
Judicial day of the November Term of the Shelby Circuit Court in said year came
into open Court Albert F. Wray and produces in Court an instrument in writing
purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Annie M. Wilson, deceased, and
now moves the admittance thereof to probate and record, and in proof of said
Will introduces Albert F. Wray the subscribing witnesses thereto, who being
duly sworn by the Clerk of said Court, on oath, declare and testify as follows,
that is to say. That on the 6th
day of July 1914 he saw the said Annie M. Wilson sign her name to said
instrument in writing as an for her last Will and Testament and that this
deponent, at the same time, heard the said Annie M. Wilson 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 Annie M.
Wilson and with her consent attested and subscribed by the said Albert F. Wray
and Robert W. Harrison in the presence of said testator, and in the presence of
each other, as subscribing witnesses thereto, and that the said Annie M. Wilson
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.
Albert F. Wray
Sworn to
and subscribed by the said Albert F. Wray before me Cecil B. Collins Clerk of
said Court at Shelbyville, Indiana, the 15th day of January 1915.
Cecil B. Collins Clerk
Whereupon
it is ordered, adjudged and decreed by the Court that said instrument in
writing purporting to be the last Will of Annie M. Wilson deceased, is the last
Will and Testament of Annie M. Wilson deceased, and is hereby admitted to
probate and record in this Court.
Cecil B. Collins Clerk
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 Annie M. Wilson, has been duly
proved by the testimony of Albert F. Wray one of the subscribing witnesses
thereto, that a complete record of said Will, and of the testimony of the said
Albert F. Wray in proof thereof, has been by me duly made and recorded in Book
6 at pages 526-527 and 528 of the record of Wills of said County.
In
Attestation Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the seal
of said Court, at Shelbyville, Indiana this 15th day of January
1915.
Cecil B. Collins Clerk
Circuit Court Shelby County
Transcribed by Barb Huff
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