ARCHER - Isabel - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

I, Isabel Archer of the County of Fountain and state of Indiana do make and publish this my last will and testament hereby revoking all former wills by me made.  First , I direct that after my decease my body shall be respectably and plainly clothed, and buried in a plain, substantial walnut coffin and that a monument, costing no more than $40 and not less than $30 be erected to mark my grave.  Second, All my estate both personal and real, I give and devise in fee to my niece Laura Isabel Kiff (subject however to the payment of all my just debts funeral expenses all just claims and if my said niece should die before I do then in that case I give and devise all my said estate upon a like condition to her heirs at law.  Third, I hereby nominate and appoint my said niece executrix of this my last will and testament, hereby directing that she be not required to give bond, make any inventories of my said estate or any exhibits of the same whatever to the court having probate jurisdiction thereof. And I hereby authorize my said executrix or her said legal heirs to prosecute or defend any suit or suits in relation to my said estate that I myself might prosecute or defend if I were alive and present. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 15th day of February 1882.  Isabel Archer (seal) – Signed and acknowledge by the said Isabel Archer as her last will and testament in our presence and signed by said witnesses in her presence this day of 15 February 1882.  WH Wright & Wm. A. McClure

Continued – State of Indiana Fountain County – Be it remembered that on the 4th day of December, 1889, William H. Wright one of the subscribing witnesses to the within and foregoing last will and testament of Isabel Archer late of said county deceased, personally appeared before the undersigned clerk of the circuit court of Fountain County in the state of Indiana and being duly sworn by the clerk of said court upon his oath declared and testified as follows, towit: that on the 15th day of February 1882 he saw the said Isabel Archer sign her name to said instrument in writing as and for her last will and testament, and that this deponent at the same time heard the said Isabel Archer declare the said instrument to be her last will and testament and that the said instrument was at the same time at the request of the said Isabel Archer and with her consent, attested and subscribed by the said William H. Wright, and William A. McClure in the presence of the said testator and in the presence of each other as subscribing witnesses thereto and that the said Isable Archer was at the time of the signing and subscribing of the said instrument as aforesaid, more than 21 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 – Wm. H. Wright – sworn and subscribed by the said Wm. H. Wright before me, Henry LaTourette, Clerk of said court at Covington the 4th day of December 1889. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affirm the seal of said court.