WILL: David HOOVER, 1882, Shirley Township, Huntingdon County, PA
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Last Will & _ I David Hoover of Shirley Township Huntingdon County
of Penna. being of sound mind, memory, and understanding
DAVID HOOVER do make and publish this my last will and testament hereby
revoking and making void all former wills by me made and first I direct that
all funeral expenses and just debts be paid. Item _ I give and bequeath to
my beloved wife Susannah Hoover the one third of all my personal and real
estate. This is in place of what she would be entitled to under the widows
three hundred dollar act and also her interest in the widows dow__ which she
would have been entitled to under the intestate laws of Pennsylvania
Item I give and bequeath to James H. Hoover a Grand son twenty dollars -
also to Addie Yountzen A Grand Daughter twenty dollars.
Item I also give and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth _____ __ married to
William Drake Twenty five Dollars and the Cow this in view of the trouble
she had in taking care of me in my old age. Item the balance of my estate
is to be paid to my daughter Elizabeth intermarried with Wilson Drake and my
daughter Sarah intermarried to David M ___istry equally that is share and
share alike - -
Item as soon as convenient - after my decease I order and direct that my
executor hereinafter named make sale of my personal property and real estate
to be converted into money and to be paid out to my heirs as above
specified.
And lastly, I appoint George Garver to be my sole executor to sell and
dispose of all my real estate and personal property, at either public or
private sale for the best price or prices that can be obtained and I do
hereby authorize my said executors, and empower him to sell and dispose of
said real estate and to duly execute acknowledge, and perfected to grant
convey and assure the same to the purchaser or purchasers thereof in fee
simple and to sign seal all such deeds of conveyances as may be necessary to
perfect said titles. In witness I have hereunto set my hand and seal the
16th day of February A. D. 1882
Witness present
Wm. B. Leas David Hoover (seal)
J. L. Enyeart
Huntingdon County SS.
Before me Register for the Probate of Wills and granting Letters of
Administration in and for said County personall appeared George Garver who
being duly sworn doth depose and say that David Hoover late of Shirley
Township died on or about the 11th day of March 1882 at about 4 oclock P.M.
and further saith not.
Sworn and Subscribed this 18th
day of March A.D. 1882 before George Garver
J. D. Kuntzelman
Register
County of Huntingdon
This eighteenth day of March A. D. 1882 before me J. D. Kuntzelman
Register for the Probate of Wills and granting Letters of Administration in
and for the County of Huntingdon personally came John L. Enyeart - one of
the subscribing witnesses to the above will and being duly sworn according
to law did depose and say that he was present and saw and heard David Hoover
the testator sign seal publish pronounce and declare the foregoing
instrument of writing as and for his testament and last will and that at the
time of so doing he the said testator was of perfect and sound mind memory
and understanding to the best of their knowledge observation and belief.
Sworn to and subscribed before me J. L. Enyeart
J. D. Kuntzelman
Register
Letters Testamentary on the estate On this 18th day of March A.D. 1882
of letters Testamentary in common form
David Hoover of Shirley Twp decd. were granted to George Garver on the
estate of David Hoover late of Shirley
Twp. decd.
J. D. Kuntzelman
Register