Last  Will  and  Testament
of

Anna  Collins,
deceased


          I,  Anna Collins,  a resident of the City of Shelbyville, Shelby County,Indiana, do hereby make, publish and declare this to be my last will and testament.

Item 1.  I give, devise and bequeath to my sister  Mary Killorin  all of the personal property of which I may die seized, to have and to hold as her individual property forever.

Item 2.  I give and bequeath to my sister Mary Killorin the sum of $250.00, to be used by her, with a like a amount to be furnished by her, for the purchase of a family monument and proper markers to be placed upon our family lot in the St. Joseph Catholic Cemertery, adJoining the City of Shelbyville Indiana.

Item 3.  I give and bequeath to the pastor of St. Joseph Catholic Church in the City of Shelbyville Indiana, the sum of One hundred Dollars to be used for Masses for the repose of my soul, and the souls of my departed relatives.

Item 4.  After the payment of the bequests mentioned in items one, two and three above, I give devise and bequeath to my beloved husbnd, Joseph V. Collins, all of the residue of my estate of any and all kinds to have and to hold as his individual property forever in fee simple.

Item 5.  I do hereby constitute and appoint my sister Mary Killorin as the Executrix of this my last will and testament.

In witness whereof I have herunto set myhand and seal this 23rd day of July, 1917.
Anna Collins     ( SEAL )


Signed, sealed and acknowledged by the above named Anna Collins as her last will and Testament in our presence and signed by us as attesting witnesses thereto at her request and in her presence and in the presence of each other this 23" day of July, 1917.
William A. Lowden           Everet E. Stroup



STATE OF INDIANA, SHELBY COUNTY, SS:

                    BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the 15th day of September, 1917, William A. Lowden one of the subscribing witnesses to thewithin and foregoing last Will and Testament of Anna Collins, late of said County, deceased, personall appeared before Cecil B. Collins, 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 23rd day of September, 1917 he saw the said Anna Collins, sign her name to said instrument in writing as and for her lasy (sic) Will and Testament; and that this deponent at the same time, heard the said Anna Collins declare the said ins rument (sic) 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 Anna Collins and with her consent attested and subscribed by the said William A. Lowden and Everest E. Stroup, in the presence of said testator and in the presence of each other, as subscribing witnesses thereto, and that the said Anna Collins 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.
William A. Lowden


Sworn to and subscribed by the said William A. Lowden before me, Cecil B. Collins, Clerk of said Court, at Shelbyville, the 15th day of September 1917. Cecil B. Collins, Clerk Shelby County Court


STATE OF INDIANA, SHEBLY COUNTY, SS:
                    I, Cecil B. Collins, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Shelby County, Indiana, do hereby certify that the witing (sic) annexed Will and Testament of Anna Collins has been duly admitted to probate, and duly proved by the testimony of William A. Lowden one of the subscribing witnesses thereto, that a complete record of said Will, and of the Testimony of the said William A. Lowden proof thereof has been by me duly made and recorded in Book 7 at pages 257 and 258 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, this 15th day of September, 1917.
Cecil B. Collins, Clerk Circuit Court, Shelby County
Transcribed by Pat Lorentzen

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