Will of
Joseph
Dungan
The last Will
and Testament of Joseph Dungan.
In the name
of the Benevolent Father of all I Joseph Dungan of Shelby County
State of Indiana do make and publish this my last Will and Testament.
It is my will
that my just debts be paid and I devise and bequest to my beloved Wife Clarrisa
Dungan and Joseph Dungan my son my farm during
their natural lives for their support and the stock and farming utensils that
may be on hand at my death to my wife and at the death of my Wife and my
son Joseph Dungan that the land be sold and divided equaly[sic] between my
lawful heirs.
I make and
appoint Lewis Burker executor of this my last will and
testament I do hereby revoke all former wills by me made in testimony hereof I
have hereunto set my hand and seal this 17th day of March in the year
1874.
Joseph Dungan seal}}
Signed and
acknowledged by said Joseph Dungan as his last will and testament in our
presence and signed by us in his presence.
Robert J.
Wells
B. F. McFall
State of Indiana Shelby County s.s.
Be it
remembered that on the 27th day of April 1874 Robert S. Wells one of the
subscribing witnesses to the within and foregoing last will and Testament of
Joseph Dungan late of said County deceased personally appeared before John
Elliott 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 17th day of March 1874 he saw the
said Joseph Dungan sign his name to said instrument in writing as and for his
last will and testament, and that this deponent at the same home heard the said
Joseph Dungan 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 Joseph Dungan and with his consent attested and subscribed
by the said Robert S. Wills and B. F. McFall in the presence of said testator
and in the presence of each other as subscriging witnesses thereto and that the
said Joseph Dungan was at the thime 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.
Robert S. Mills
Sworn to and
subscribed by the said deponent before me John Elliott Clerk of said Court at
Shelbyville the 27th day of April. In attestation whereof, I have hereunto
subscribed my name and affixed the Sail of said Court.
John Elliott Clk
State of Indiana }}
Shelby County }} s s
I john Elliott Clerk of the Circuit Court of Shelby County Indiana do hereby
certify that the within annexed will and testament of Joseph Dungan has been
duly admitted to probate and duly proved by the testiony of Robert S. Wells on e
of the subscribing witnesses thhereto that a complete record of said will and of
the testimony of the said Robert S Wells in proof thereof has been by me duly
made and recorded in Book No 1 at pages 393 & 394 of the Records of Wills of
said County.
In
attestation whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the sial of
said Court at Shelbyville this 27th day of April 1874.
John Elliott Clk Circuit
Court Shelby County
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