Pleasants County, West Virginia - Will of Edwinna Maxwell

Source:  Copied by Linda Fluharty from LDS Film #0867841.


Name of  County:  Pleasants

Date of  Will:  June 27, 1890

Testator:  EDWINNA MAXWELL

Book 1, page 128

The Last Will and Testament of Edwinna Maxwell.

     In the name of God Amen.  I Edwinnie Maxwell of the County of
Pleasants State of West Virginia age thirty nine years being in ill
health, but of a Sound and desposing mind and memory calling to mind
the Frailty and uncertainty of human life and being desirous of put-
ting my worldly affairs and directing how the estate with which it
has pleased god to bless me with shall be Disposed of after my dis-
ceased while I have thought and capacity so to do make and publish
this my last will and testament hereby revoking and making null and
void all my former wills and testaments heretofore made by me and
first I command my immortal Being to him who gave it and my boddy
to the earth as to my worldly estate and all the property Real and
personal or mixed thereof of which I shall die diseased of and
possessed of to which I shall be entitle at the time of my death.
I desire and bequeath and dispose thereof in the following manner
towit my will is that all my just "debts" and Funeral expenses and
charges shall be paid out of my estate as soon after my diseace as
shall be found convenient by my executor hereinafter named but
according to law then I give devise and bequeath to R. M. Weekly
Two hundred dollars to John C. Weekly Two hundred dollars to Wm
C. Weekly Two hundred dollars all the balance of the estate both
real and personal to be divided equally between Olla Morgan(?)
Clarinda Wagner, Mary Jane Campbell, Anna B. Watson, Magie E.
Weekly and Porter C. Williamson son of Josephene Maxwell late
Josephene Williamson.  I hereby appoint L. C. Shingleton my
executor of my estate in witness whereof I here set my hand and
seal this 27th day of June one thousand eight hundred and ninety.

Edwinnie Maxwell (Seal)

The testator in the presence of each of us and was at the same
time presented by her to be her last will and testament and we at
her request our names hereto attesting ....(illegible)

Witnesses
A. P. Jones
Thornton F. Campbell
L. C. Shingleton

West Virginia
Office Clerk County Court Pleasants Co March 12th 1891

The last will and testament of Edwinna Maxwell was this day
presented in the Office aforesaid by the executor named therein,
and was duly proved by the oaths of L. C. Shingleton and Thornton
F. Campbell two of the subscribing witnesses thereto, and there-
upon the said will was admitted to probate and ordered to be
recorded.

Teste:  J. W. Porter Clerk Crt.

West Virginia
Pleasants County Court Clerks Office April 21st 1891.

The foregoing instrument of writing purporting to be the last Will
and Testament of Edwinna Maxwell dec'd bearing date on the 27th day
of June 1890, having been admitted to record in the office aforesaid
upon the oaths of L. C. Shingleton & Thornton F. Campbell two of the
subscribing witnesses was this day by me recorded.

Teste J. W. Porter, Clk. Crt.