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Will of Mary Lindley Deceased
Book 2
Pages 306 and 307
Dated February 12, 1873
Proved October 3, 1878
(I read and photographed this will on February 5, 2010 at the Paoli
Courthouse. I left spelling as it was
in the will. Many words were
misspelled, but you can easily figure them out. I thought it best to copy it exactly. - Paula Lindley-Butler )
I Mary Lindley of
Orange County and the State of Indiana being of sound mind and memory but
knowing the unseranty of lif and the Cerainty of Death and being desirous of
desposing of my personal state wich I may have at mi death I do herby mak and publish this as my, last
will and testament and hereby ? all other wills ever maid buy me as follows
to-wit I there? first my will and desire is that all my past debts and funeral
expenses and the expenses of my last sickness be first paid out of my state.
Item seken it is my
will that my executor shall sell of all of mi personal property at publick sale
and the money be? Eaqual divided among these herein named
Henry Lindley and
William W. Lindley and Joseph Lindley and James E Lindley and Amy Trueblood and
Debora Tarr and also one thousand dollars that is in the handes of mi two sons
William W Lindley and James E Lindley the Executor of mi ? husband Owen Lindley
deceased to be equally divided ? ? herein named Henry Lindley William W Lindley
Joseph Lindley James E Lindley my four sons And? Amy Trueblood and Debora Tarr
my two daughters or? herein named in my will to be paid to them by my executor
of my will herin appointed after the same is sold
I do hereby nominate
and appoint my two sons William W Lindley and James E Lindley the executors of
this my last will and testament with all of the power and authority that I can
give them by the force and? affection? of my last will and testament
In whitch whereof I
have hereunto set my hand and seal this the 12 of February 1873
her
Mary
X Lindley
mark
Mary Lindley signed
the ? ? ? witnessed the same Samuel
Gullett John T. Lindley
State of Indiana
Orange County SS.
the state of Indiana
(this was crossed out) Be it remembered that on this 3rd day of
October AD 1878 personally came Samuel Gullett one of the subscribing witnesses
to the written and foregoing last will and testament of Mary Lindley late of
said county deceased personally appeared before John R. Simpson? Clerk of the
Circuit Court of Orange 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 twelfth day of February AD 1873 he saw the said Mary Lindley
sign her name? to said instrument in writing ? and for her last will and
testament and that this deponent at the same time heard the said Mary Lindley
declare that said instrument 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 Mary Lindley and with her consent ? and subscribed by the said Samuel
Gullett and John T Lindley in the presence of said testator and in the presence
of each other as subscribing witnesses thereto and that the said Mary Lindley
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) did 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
Samuel Gullett
Sworn to and
subscribed by the said Samuel Gullet before me John R Simpson? Clerk of said
Court at Paoli the 3rd day of October 1878 John R Simpson? Clerk
Orange Circuit Court (crossed out)
In ? whereof I have
hereunto subscribed my name? and affixed the seal of said court
John R. Simpson? Clerk
Orange Circuit Court
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