HARALSON COUNTY, GA - WILLS - Philena Fobes

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Will BOOK A, PAGE 141  

WILL OF PHILENA FOBES
STATE OF GEORGIA
HARALSON COUNTY   
I, Philena Fobes of Roxborough, Philadelphia Penn.
Do publish and declare this to be my Last Will and
Testament.  I wish funeral expenses and all
liabilities to be paid out of my estate, and
provisions made for a suitable stone with my name
and dates to be placed at the place of my burial, in
Elm St., buring ground, New Haven, Conn.  I nominate
and appointed Rev. G. R. Moore and my niece Ellen C.
Alexander to be the Executors of this will, and in
case either should be prevented from acting as
Executor, I wish my Nephew, Joseph W. Fobes, of
Peace Dale, R. I. Should take the place of the
Executor prevented from acting.

I do not desire that the Court of Probate should
require an inventory of my personal property as
furniture, wardrobes, books, pictures, &c. I give
and bequeath to the American Board of Foreign
Missions Congregational and the American Home
Missions congregational Society, and to the
Presbyterian Home Missionary Society, each six
hundred dollars ($600.00) to the children’s aid
society New York under the Care of Chas. Loring
Brace, three hundred dollars ($300.00). To the
American Sunday School Union, in Philadelphia, Pa.,
Three hundred dollars ($300.00), to the Ladies Home
and Foreign Missionary Societies of Lorington Church
of Roxborough, Philadelphia, one hundred and Fifty
dollars each.  I give and bequeath to the following
persons each Five hundred dollars ($500.00); George
R.  Moore, Jr., Hariett Marid Moore, Mrs. Harriett
Lyons Crawford, wife of John C. Crawford of Chicago;
Ellen Codelia Crawford, Henry Ward Yates of Illinois
to Rev., G. R. Moore one thousand dollars
($1,000.00).  To Mrs Mary Porter, daughter of
Alexander (deceased) of Jerseyville, Illinois, Three
Hundered dollars ($300.00) To Mrs. Phelena Fobes
Fine, wife Prof. U. B. Fine, two hundred dollars
($200.00)

To Mrs. Elizabeth Clarke Marsh, wife of Rev. Dr. D.
W. Marsh of Amherst, Mass., Three Hundred Dollars
($300.00) To Rev. Dr. D. W. Marsh One hundred
dollars ($100.00).  To their son William Dwight
Marsh, one hundred dollars ($100.00)

To Mary Cone, Marietta Ohion, Mrs. Annie Moore Kirk,
wife of J. W. Kirk of Roxborough, to Joseph Warner
Fobes of Peace Dale R. I., and to Alan C. Fobes
Syracuse, each one hundred dollars ($100.00).  I
give my nieces Mary A. Lyons Moore, wife of G. R.
Moore, Roxborough Phila. And to Ellen Cordelia
Alexander, daughter of Andrew Alexander and Celina
Fobes Alexander, each Six Thousand Dollars
($6,000.00).

I give and bequeath my furniture, wardrobe, books,
pictures, jewelry and bric-a-brac to my Nieces, Mrs.
Mary Lyons Moore and Ellen C. Alexander, with
exception and disposition of articles mentioned in a
letter addressed to them.

My lots and interest in Tallapoosa, GA., and Fruit
Hurst; Ala., and NarCoosa Florida, I give and
bequeath to George R. Moore, Harriett Mary Moore,
Mrs Harriett Marid Crawford and Ellen Cordelia
Crawford, These four persons to share equally in the
avails of this property.  I direct that provisions
be made for the permanent care of my burial lot in
Elm St. Cemetery, New Haven Conn., unless such
arrangement be made before my death.  All the rest,
residue and remainder of my estate of which shall I
die possessed, I give and bequeath to my niece Ellen
Cordelia Alexander.  In witness to my last will and
testament, I do here set my hand and seal.

  Philena Fobes (SS) Date March 21, 1896
 Signed, sealed, published and declared by Philena Fobes as and for her last will and Testament in the presence of us, the subscribers who have hereto signed our names as witnesses in the presence of the Testatrix, and in the presence of each other, on this day March 21, 1896.
WITNESSES: ALFRED R. HAIG
  R. BRUCE WALLACE

city and county of Philadelphia, Registers Office, November 15, 1898
Sworn statement of withness, to last will of Philena Fobes, Deceased
Sworn statement of Executors dated Nov. 8th, 1898
  George R. Moore, 407 Green Lane, Phil. PA
  Ellen C. Alexander, 210 East 33rd St., Chicago, Ill.

Will Approved for Probate November 15, 1898 by Horatio B. Hackett, register of Wills for the City and County of Philadelphia PA

Sworn statements of Executors where payment was made to each heir (address of heirs included)
Page 144.
All sworn statements not transcribed.