Court Records: Wapello County Probate/Will of Othniel Speer
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LDS FHC microfilm 979672 Wapello County Iowa Will Records, Volume 3; 

Page 186, 187 Will of Othniel Speer

 

Last Will & Testament  }

Othniel Speer          } Will

I Othniel Speer of Wapello County, State of Iowa being of sound and 

disposing mind and memory do hereby make, publish, and declare this my 

last will and testament, hereby revoking and annulling all other wills 

by me ever made.

First. It is my will and desire that all my just debts and funeral 

expenses be paid and that there shall be appropriated from my estate and 

property in Iowa, the sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars for a 

tombstone to be placed at the graves of myself and wife now deceased, 

with proper inscriptions thereon.

Second.  I will and bequeath all of my interest, be it much or little, in

my deceased wife's estate now located and being in the state of Pennsylvania,

and being interest in certain [land] it being my intention hereby to include,

and interest in my deceased wife's estate, if I have any, as I suppose I 

have, to all my children, to wit: my sons Robert G, Alexander P., William P, 

and my daughters Mattie Mageors, Mary Brown, Maggie Failyer, and Sarah W. Riley, 

these to share and share alike in said property.

Third.  I will and bequeath all the remainder of my property being the 

property I now have in Iowa together with any additions or increase thereof 

between this time and my decease to my son, William P. Speer, for his own 

individual use and benefit.

I make this distinction in his favor as a partial recognition for 

his many years care for me and my property and my deceased wife he having 

remained with us and given us the benefit of his service and labor ever since 

his majority.

I also appoint my son, Wm P. Speer, executor of this my last will and 

testament and request that he be appointed by the court without being required 

to give any bonds. Witness my hand this 29th day of Sept 1892.

Othniel Speer


We the undersigned witnesses of the foregoing will state, that we signed 

the same at the request of Othniel Speer as witnesses thereto we signed 

he same in his presence and the presence of each other and we saw him sign 

said will and at the same time he declared the same to be his last will and 

testament.

W.B. Wycoff 

W A Work

Ottumwa, Iowa September 29, 1892

State of Iowa}

Wappello Co  }  I, H. L. Hedrick, clerk of the D.C. in and for said 

county, do hereby certify that on this day at the January term, A.D. 1895, 

of said court the will and testament in writing hereunto annexed and bearing 

date on the 29th day of September, 1892, was duly proved before and allowed 

by said court as and for said will and testament of the real and personal 

estate pf Othniel Speer, late of said county, deceased, and was by said court 

ordered to be recorded as such will and testament.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of

said court at my office in Ottumwa, the 13th day of March 1895.

H.L. Hedrick, Clerk D.C.

 

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