Submitted by Lowell Pankake
Lawrence County, Ohio Will Book 2, page 128
Dated February 17, 1868.
Presented to the Court on April 17, 1869 Pleas at the Court House in Ironton, in the County of Lawrence and State of Ohio, of the Lawrence County Probate Court at a Session thereof, held at the Place aforesaid on the 17th day of April AD 1869, Before, C.B. Egerton sole Judge of Said Court.
The State of Ohio Lawrence County, Be it remembered that on the Seventeenth day of April AD 1869 there was produced in open court for Probate an instrument of writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Joseph Pancake late of Said County deceased, which will read in the words and figures following to wit:
“In the name of the Benevolent Father of all, I, Joseph Pancake of Lawrence County Ohio, do make and publish this my last will and testament – Item 1st I give and devise to my beloved wife the farm on which we now reside Situate in Lawrence County Ohio containing about 172 acres during her natural life and all the stock household goods and furniture provisions and other goods and chattels which may be thereon at the time of my decease during her natural life as aforesaid. She however Selling So much thereof as may be sufficient to pay my just debts. at the death of my said wife the Real estate aforesaid I give and devise to my heirs provided that they Shall pay General and Joseph my Sons the sum of $100 each provided that they shall stay and take care of the things and family til they become 21 years of age.
I do hereby nominate and appoint my beloved wife Guardian of my children, General Pancake, Ellen P. Pancake, Joseph Pancake, Martha Pancake, Eliza Pancake, and Elizabeth Pancake until they arrive at the proper age or intermarry. I desire that no appraisement and no Sale of my personal property be made and that the Court of Probate directs the omission of the same in pursuance of the Statute. I do hereby revoke all former wills by me made in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this 17th day of February in the year AD 1868.
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Signed and acknowledged by said Joseph Pancake as his last will and testament in our presence and signed by us in his presence.
Daniel W. Hall
Clark Corn
The State of Ohio Lawrence County SS=Probate Court
Personally appeared in open Court Daniel W. Hall and Clark Corn the Subscribing to the last will and testament of Joseph Pancake deceased who being duly sworn according to law to speak the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth in relation to the Execution of said Will, depose and say that the paper before them purporting to be the last will and testament of Joseph Pancake now deceased is the will of said deceased, and the words “and appoint my beloved wife Guardian” were interlined before the execution thereof, that they were present at the execution of said will, at the request of the testator subscribed their names to the same as witnesses in his presence and that they saw the said Joseph Pancake deceased sign and seal said will and heard him acknowledge the same to his last will and testament, that the said Joseph Pancake at the time of [unreadable] said will be of legal age and of sound and disposing of mind and memory and under no undue or unlawful restraint whatsoever.
Daniel W. Hall
Clark Corn
Sworn to and subscribed in open court this 17th day of April AD 1869 C.B. Egerton, Probate Judge
Lawrence County Probate Court Saturday, April the 17th 1869
Probate of Will
In the matter of the last Will and Testament of Joseph Pancake deceased
This day was produced in Court an instrument of writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Joseph Pancake late of Lawrence County deceased, and thereupon came Daniel W. Hall and Clark Corn the subscribing witnesses thereto and testified to the due execution thereof as the last will and testament of said Joseph Pancake deceased, and it appears to the Court from said testimony that at the time of the execution of said will the said Joseph Pancake was of the full age of sound mind and memory and not under any undue or unlawful restraint, it is ordered that said will together with the testimony aforesaid and the order be recorded.
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