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Will & Testament of Joseph W. Webb
Book 4
Pages 27 and 28
Dated July 12, 1918
Proved July 20, 1918
(I left all spelling as it was in the
will. I read and photographed this will
myself in February of 2010 – Paula
Lindley-Butler
In the name of the benebolant Father of all, I, Joseph W.
Webb, of Orange County, in the State of Indiana, do hereby make and publish
this my last will and testament twoti:
First: I give and bequeath to
my wife, Nellie B. Webb, to have and to hold during her wife all my property of
whatever kind, both personal and real.
Second. I further give and bequeath to my daughter,
Aeta (must be typo, her name is Arta below and in Census Records – Paula) A.
Webb, on condition that she shall live with and help care for her mother,
Nellie B. Webb, during the remainder of the life of the latter, the sum of One
Hundred and Fifty ($150.00) for each year of such service, terminating with the
death of said Nellie B. Webb. The above
sum to be paid out of my estate at the death of my wife and before any division
of my estate shall be made among my other children. After the above sum shall have been paid to the said Arta A.
Webb, she shall share equally with my other children in whatever may be left.
Joseph
W. Webb
Subscribed by the said Joseph W. Webb in our presence and
by him to be his last will and attested to by us as such in his presence and in
the presence of each other, this 12th day of July, 1918.
Albert
L. Braxtan
James
A. Lindley ….Witnesses.
The State of Indiana, Orange
County, ss;
Be it remembered, that on the 20th day of July,
1918, James A. Lindley, one of the subscribing witnesses to the within and
foregoing last will and testament of Joseph W. Webb, late of said County,
deceased, personally appeared before Charles T. Brown, 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 12th day of July, 1918, he saw the said
Joseph W. Webb sign his name to the said instrument in writing as and for his
last will and testament and that this deponent, at the same time, heard the
said Joseph W. Webb 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 W. Webb and with his consent attested and
subscribe by the said Albert L. Braxtan and James A. Lindley in the presence of
said testator, and in the presence of each other, as subscribing witnesses
thereto, and that the said Joseph W. Webb 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 say not.
James
A. Lindley
Sworn to and subscribed by the said James A. Lindley before
me, Charles T. Brown, Clerk of said Court, at Paoli, In iana, the 20th
day of July, 1918.
IN ATTESTATION WHE ROF, I have hereunto subscribed my name,
and affixed the seal of said Court.
The State of Indiana, Orange
County, ss;
I, Charles T. Brown, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Orange
County, Indiana, do hereby certify that the within annexed Will and Testament
of Joseph W. Webb has been duly admitted to probate; and duly proved by the
testimony of James A. Lindley, one of the subscribing witnesses thereto that a
complete record of said will, and of the testimony of the said James A. Lindley
in proof thereof, has been by me duly made and recorded in Book 4 at pages ….
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 paoli, Indiana, this 20th day
of July, 1918.
Charles
T. Brown
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