Last Will and Testament
of
Jacob Reed
Book 1 pages 430 &
431
I Jacob Reed of Noble Township Shelby
County Indiana do make and publish this my last Will and Testament.
Item first. I direct that all my
just debts be paid out of the first money which may come into the
hands of my executor.
Item Second. I give and devise
to my beloved wife Eliza Reed in lieu of her interest in my land the
use of all my land being the Farm on which I now reside containing
one hundred and twenty acres during her natural life and all the
stock, household goods furniture, provisions and other goods and
chattels which may be thereon at the time of my decease together with
all moneys which I may have on hand, at the time of my death to be
used by her for her support during her life (She however selling
as much of my personal property as will pay my debts) and at the
death of my said wife all the property of which she may be seized as
above bequeathed both real and personal is to be divided equally
among my children who may out-live my said wife and should any of my
children be dead at the time of the death of my wife leaving a child
or children which will be my Grandchild or Grandchildren are to have
the proportion of my said Estate which would have fell to the share
of their deceased parent had he or she (as the case may be) been
living at the time of the death of my said wife.
And I do hereby constitute and appoint
my wife Eliza Reed my Executor of this my last Will and testament
hereby revoking all my former wills heretofore by me made.
In testimony hereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal this Fourteenth day of May
1875.
Jacob Reed
(SEAL)
Signed and acknowledged by said Jacob
Reed as his last will and Testament in our presence and signed by us
in his presence.
N. V. Shipman
J.M. Buell
State of Indiana Shelby County SS
Be it remembered that on the 13” day
of Sept 1875 John M. Buell one of the subscribing witnessed to the
within and foregoing last will and Testament of Jacob Reed late of
said county deceased personally appeared before John Sleeth Clk 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 14th
day of May 1875 he saw the said Jacob Reed sign his name to said
instrument in writing as and for his last will and testament and that
the said instrument in writing was at the same time at the request of
the said Jacob Reed and with his consent attested and subscribed by
the said N. V. Shipman and John M. Buell in the presence of said
testator and in the presence of each other as subscribing witnesses
thereto and that the said Jacob Reed 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 says not.
John M. Buell
Sworn to and subscribed by the said
deponent before me John Elliott Clerk of said Court at Shelbyville
the 13” day of Sept 1875. In attestation whereof, I have unto
subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court.
John Elliott
Clk
State of Indiana Shelby County SS
I John Elliott Clerk of the Circuit
Court of Shelby County Indiana do hereby certify that the within
annexed will and testament of Jacob Reed has been duly admitted to
probate and duly proved by the testimony of John M. Buell one of the
subscribing witnesses thereto that a complete record of said Will has
been by me duly made and recorded in Book No. 1 page 430 & 431 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 13” day of September 1875
John Elliott Clk (SEAL)
Transcribed by Barb Huff
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