Henry County IA Archives Wills.....Ames, Charlotte Amanda Armstrong October 5, 1900
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Source: Henry Co. Iowa Will Record Vol D-e, 1899-1915
Written: October 5, 1900
Recorded: February 12, 1907

 page 569
 
Last Will and Testament of Charlotte A. Ames deceased
   In the name of God Amen
 I Charlotte Ames of the town of Olds in the County of
Henry and the State of Iowa of the age of sixty seven
years and being of Sound mind and memory do make, publish
and declare this my last will and testament in manner
following that is to say:
   First- To my son Verner R. Ames I give one half of all
my estate remaining after all my debts are paid.
   Second- The other half of my estate to be divided
equally between my two daughters Florence N. Roselle and
Edna M. Botts
  In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this the
twenty fifth day of October 1900
                             Charlotte A. Ames

     The above instrument consisting of one sheet of 
paper was at the date thereof signed and declared by the
said Charlotte Ames as and for her last will and testament
in presence of who at her request & in her presence have 
subscribed our names as witnesses thereto:
                              Austin Waterman
                              Almira P Waterman

           State of Iowa, Henry County-ss
  I, Edd De Garmes?, Clerk of the District Court of said
County, do hereby certify that the foregoing instrument
purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Charlotte
A. Ames deceased was duly proven before the District Court
of Henry County, aforesaid, at its regular February Term,
A. D. 1907, and by said Court this day allowed and admitted
to record and established and declared to be the last Will
and Testament of Charlotte A. Ames deceased and ordered to
be certified and recorded as such last Will and Testament.
           Witness my hand and Seal of said Court
           affixed at Mt. Pleasant Iowa, this 12th
           day of February 1907
                  Edd De  Garmo? Clerk of
                      District Court
               by Emma Oxley Deputy
               Proof of Will next page

page 570
            Proof of Will
State of Iowa}
Henry County }
       In the District Court, February Term 1907
      To Whom it may concern:
  Notice is hereby given that an instrument in writing
purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Charlotte
A. Ames, late of said county, deceased was brought into
the office of the clerk of the District Court and publicly
read as such last Will and Testament and the same being
filed, the clerk fixed 10 o'clock a.m. of the 12th day of
February 1907, such being the second day of the regular
February term, 1907, thereof, as the time for hearing of
proof before said Court of the genuineness of such will.
      Given under my hand and the Seal of said Court
this 9th day of January, A. D. 1907
                     Edd De Garmo?
                     Clerk of Said Court
                    by Emma Oxley, Deputy

            Affidavit of Publication

State of Iowa}
Henry County }
            I Charles S. Rogers, Editor of the Mt. Pleasant
News, a newspaper published in said county, and of general
circulation therein do solemnly swear that a notice, of which
the annexed is a true copy, was published three consecutive
weeks in said paper the last of said publications being made
on the 30th day of January 1907.
                             Chas. S. Rogers
        Subscribed and sworn to by Charles S. Rogers 
  before me this 8 day of Febry 1907.
                        Edd De Garmo? Clerk


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