last  Will  and  Testament  of
Madison  Estes

            I, Madison Estes of Shelby county and State of Indiana make and publish this my last will and testament.

            At my death I give, will, bequeath and devise to my afflicted daughter Ursie Estes all of my personal and real estate.

            I appoint Harry Estes, my son, the Executor of this my will.

Signed and sealed this April 17^th 1908.

            Signed and acknowledged by testator in our presence and by us in his presence at his request as attesting witnesses and by us in the presence of each other this April 17^th 1908.

                                                                                                Herbert C. Jones
                                                                                                Frank H. Wolfe

State of Indiana, Shelby County, SS:

            Be it remembered, that on the 18^th day of November, A.D. 1916 the 42 judicial day of the October Term of the Shelby Circuit Court in said year, come into open Court Kendall M. Hord and produces in Court an instrument in writing purporting to be the last will and Testament of Madison Estes, deceased, and now moves the admittance thereof to probate and record, and in proof of said Will introduces Herbert C. Jones the subscribing witnesses thereto, who being duly sworn by the Clerk of said Court, on oath, declares and testify as follows, that is to say:  That on the 17^th of April 1908 he saw the said Madison Estes sign his name to said instrument in writing as and for his last Will and Testament, and that this deponent, at the same time, heard the said Madison Estes declare the said instrument in writing to be his last Will and Testament, and that the said instrument in writing was, at the same time, at the request of the said Madison Estes and with his consent attested and subscribed by the said Herbert C. Jones and Frank H. Wolfe in the presence of said testator, and in the presence of each other, as subscribing witnesses thereto, and that the said Madison Estes 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.

                                                                                    Herbert C. Jones

            Sworn to and subscribed by the said Herbert C. Jones before me Cecil B. Collins Clerk of said Court, at Shelbyville Indiana, the 18^th day of November 1916.

                                                                                    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 Madison Estes deceased is the last Will and Testament of Madison Estes 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 Madison Estes has been duly admitted to probate, and duly proved by the testimony of Herbert C. Jones one of the subscribing witnesses thereto, that a complete record of said Will, and of the testimony of the said Madison Estes in proof thereof, has been by me duly made and recorded in Book 7 at pages 178 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 18 day of Nov. 1916.

                        (SEAL)                                                Cecil B. Collins  Clerk
                                                                                    Circuit Court Shelby County
Transcribed by Barb Huff

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