WILL: John Soisson, 1899, Cambria County, PA Contributed by Lisa Baker <lisa_18406@email.msn.co> USGENWEB ARCHIVES (tm) NOTICE All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information are included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ___________________________________________________________ Cambria County, PA, Vol. 6, Page 583 Last Will and Testament of John SOISSON In the name of God and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, I John Soisson being of sound and disposing of mind make my last will and Testament and hereby revoking and making null and void all other last wills and testaments by me hereto made. My will is that all my debts and funeral charges shall be paid by my executors as soon as possible and that one hundred masses shall be said for me in St. Nicholas Church at Nicktown Pa as soon as possible after my death, the remainder to be divided in the manner following. To my eldest daughter Christina now Sister Martha O.S.F., Ten Dollars which are to be said in masses for her, The remainder to be divided equally amoung my sons Nicholas, John, Anthony, Michael, daughter Magdalena and son Joseph, Michael being paid already one hundred and Twenty Five Dollars ($125.00) being money laoned $50.00 and one horse $75.00. In addition to the equal share my son John is to have Eighty Five Dollars ($85.00) being for a horse he gave me, and Nicholas, Michael and Joseph are each to get twenty five dollars the price of a cow, and I do nominate and appoint my son Anthony and son-in-law Michael Kirsch to be the executors of this my last will and testament In Testamary whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal this 16th day of September A.D. One Thousand eight hundred and ninety nine. John Soisson In witness whereof the parties to these presents hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year above mentioned. Harry A. Luther Aloysius Lieb State of Pennsylvania County of Cambria Before me Arthur Griffith Register of the Probate of Wills and grating Letters of Administration in and for said County, personally came Harry A. Luther one of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing Will who being duly sworn according to law, does depose and say that he was present and saw and heard John Soisson the within named testator, sign, seal, publish, pronounce, and declare the foregoing instrument of writing as and for his last will and Testament, and at the time of so doing he was of sound mind, memory, and understanding to the best of your knowledge, observation and belief. Sworn and subscribed this 27" day of March A.D. 1905 Arthur Griffith, Reg. Harry A. Luther _____ Catholic Vital Records of Central Pennsylvania, Vol. II, 1840-1849, Ledoux 5521 SOISSON, Joannes (Josephi/Margarethae Christoph), born 7-13-1823, Walschleid, Alsace married: 12-30-1849, LAMBUR, Magdalena (Bernardi/Mariae Maler) witnesses: Franciscus Bearer/Josephus Kirsch St. Joseph Catholic Church, Hart's Sleeping Place, PA, by Celestinus Englbrecht, O.S.B. Cambria County Application for Marriage License, #5076 SOISSON, John, age 69, farmer, son of Joseph and Margaret; Nicktown 1st wife died: 1 APR 1893 NELEN, Ann, age 68, lady, daughter of Rit and Philomena Nelson; Nicktown 1st husband died: 12 OCT 1884 married: 8 MAY 1894, (St. Nicholas Church), Nicktown, PA, by Rev. Rupert Trageser Buried: St. Nicholas Cemetery, Nicktown, PA SOISSON, John, husband, 1823-1905 SOISSON, Mary Magdalen, wife, 1823-1893 NEALEN, Hannah, wife, 1825-1907 NEALEN, Peter Sr., husband, 1810-1884