Last  Will  and  Testament
of
Josephine  Louden,  deceased

Page 135

State of Indiana, County of Shelby

21 October 1907

Josephine Louden of Shelbyville, Indiana do make this my last will as follows, Towit:

            After the payment of my Just Debts I will and bequeath all my Estate, both real and personal to my daughter Susan Mary Hellegoss of Shelbyville.

            I hereby appoint my son William Louden Executor of this my last Will.

            Witness ~ my hand and Seal this 21st day of October 1907.

                                                                        Josephine (her X mark) Louden  (seal)

Witness:
Charles Major,
Harry W. DePrez and
Alice S. Major

            We the under signed did sign our names as above witnesses in the presence of said Testatrix, Josephine Louden, and in the presence of each other and she did sign and execute the said instrument in our presence and did there and then declare the same as her will this 21 October 1907.

                                                                        /s/ Charles Major
                                                                       /s/ Harry W. DePrez
                                                                       /s/ Alice S. Major

State of Indiana, Shelby County, S.S.

            Be it remembered, that on the 20th day of March, A.D., 1912, the 13th judicial day of the March Term of the Shelby Circuit Court in said year, come into open Court, William A. Louden, and produces in Court an instrument in writing purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Josephine Louden, deceased and now moves the admittance thereof to probate and record, and in proof of said Will introduces Harry W. DePrez, the subscribing witness 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 21st of October, 1907 he saw the said Josephine Louden sign her name to said instrument and

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in writing as and for her last Will and Testament and that this deponent at the same time, heard the said Josephine Louden, 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 aat the request of the said Josephine Louden, and with her consent attested and subscribed by the said Harry W. DePrez, Charles Major and Alice Major in the presence of said testatrix and in the presence of each other, as subscribing witnesses thereto, and that the said Josephine Louden 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.

                                                                                    /s/  Harry W. DePrez

            Sworn to and subscribed by the said Harry W. DePrez, before me Otto L. Coyle, Clerk of said Court at Shelbyville, Indiana, the 25th day of March, 1912.

                                                                                    /s/  Otto L. Coyle, Clerk

            Whereupon it is ordered, adjudged and decreed by the Court that said instrument in writing purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Josephine Louden, deceased, is the last Will and Testament of Josephine Louden deceased and is hereby admitted to probate and record in this Court.

                                                                                    /s/  Otto L. Coyle, Clerk

State of Indiana, Shelby Co., Ind. SS.

            I, Otto L. Coyle, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Shelby County, Ind. do hereby certify that the within annexed Will and Testament of Josephine Louden has been duly admitted to probate and duly proved by the testimony of Harry W. DePrez of the subscribing witnesses thereto that a complete record of said Will and of testimony of the said Harry W. DePrez in proof

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thereof, has been by me duly made and recorded in Book 6 at pages ~  ~ ~ ~ of the record of Wills of said Court at Shelbyville, Indiana, this 25th day of March, 1912.

/s/ Otto L. Coyle, Clerk,
Shelby County

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