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WILL

I Margret Ann McKeeman of Allen County Indiana being of Sound mind and
disposing memory do make and publish this my last will and testament.
  I hereby will that all my funeral expenses and all my first debts shall 
be paid first out of my estate.
  It is my will That my daughter Catherine Whybourn shall leave five 
dollars out of my estate.
  I will and bequeath to my daughters Margaret Merillat, Jennie Dauer, 
Nancy Mercer & Ellen Essig Two Hundred Dollars each and to my sons, 
William McKeeman,Alexander McKeeman, David McKeeman Robert B. McKeeman 
Two Hundred Dollars each and That my two grandchildren Delila Emenhiser 
and William Emenhiser shall each have of my estate Fifty Dollars And 
further will that after these children and grandchildren have received 
the sum of money that I have bequeath to each. That the residue if there 
be any of my estate shall be equally divided between my beloved children 
Margret Merillat, Jennie Dauer, Nancy Mercer, Ellen Essig, 
William McKeeman, Alexander McKeeman, David McKeeman, Robert B. McKeeman,
share and share alike.
  I do nominate and appoint Samuel Morris atty of Fort Wayne, Indiana 
executor of this my last will and Testament, hereby authorizing and 
empowering him to comppromise, adjust, release and discharge in such 
manner as he may deem proper, the debts and claims due me.  I do also 
authorize and empower him if it shall become necessary in order to pay 
any debts, to sell, by private sale or in any such manner upon such terms 
of credit, or otherwise, as he may think proper, all or any part of my 
real estate and deeds to purchasers to purchasers to execute, acknowledge 
and deliver in full.
  I do hereby revoke all former wills by me made.
  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and send this 8th day 
of September 1894.
                                Margret McKeeman (Seal)
                                By H.E. Drake at the direction
                                of Margaret McKeeman
Signed and acknowledged
by said Margret McKeeman
as her last will and Testament
in our presence and signed by
us in her presence.

Philip Long

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ESTATE

State of Indiana, Allen County
In the Allen county Circuit Court

In the matter of the Estate of Margaret McKeeman deceased.
 Undersigned, executor of said estate, for final report says that he is
chargeable as follows:
 With cash on two notes of R. B. McKeeman, of $200.00 each, being all the
property named in the inventory and all the 
personal assets received by him                                $400.00
Proceeds of sale of real estate as per order of Court          1840.00
Rents received from land prior to sale                          157.58
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2397.58

He claims credit as per vouchers filed as follows:
No.1. On Smith claim filed and allowed          $328.90
No.2. Mary McNeary claim filed and allowed       242.52
No.3. Odd Fellows claim filed and allowed         64.07
No.4. Lehman claim filed & allowed                14.63
No.5. To Clerk for Straus claim allowed          157.53
No.6. Paid Clerk of Graffe claim allowed           7.63
No.7. To Clerk on          claim allowed           9.26
No.8.                      claim allowed          15.98

settlement thereof, and he therefore asks an order to pay said $5.00 to 
the clerk of the Court for her use, which leaves $1,146.91 to be 
distributed among said children and grand children; that said balance 
being insufficient to pay the full amounts thereof said children and 
grand children are entitled to receive the following proportions of said 
$1,146.91 viz:
Margaret Merrilat   $134.93
Jennie Dower         134.93
Nancey Mercer        134.93
Ellen Essig          134.93
William McKeeman     134.93
Alexander McKeeman   134.93
David McKeeman       134.93
Albert McKeeman      134.93
Delilah Emenhiser     33.74
William Emenhiser     33.74
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Total . . . . . . . 1146.91

Your executor further says that the above named heirs and devises are the 
only ones entitled to share in the property with which he is chargeable to 
cash and has paid all outstanding debts, claims and Court costs. 
Your executor further says that his services are worth in excess of the 
$75.00 charged. He further says that said estate being settled no real 
estate remains either for the heirs or for the payment of the balance of 
said devises.

Wherefore he asks that he may be ordered to pay said $5.00 to the Clerk 
of this Court for the said Catherine Whyburn and upon presenting the 
receipts of said above named devisees of their respective shares of said 
proceeds, that his report be approved, and that he be discharged.


David C. McKeeman

State of Indiana
Allen County

  David McKeeman being duly sworn upon his oath says, that the above and
foregoing report contains a full and accurate account of all of said estate
with which he is chargeable, together with all the credits to which he is
entitled; that the same is true and correct.

David C. McKeeman

Subscribed and sworn to before undersigned, this 20th day of March, A.D. 1896.
John B. Formen, Notary Public

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 Jane Hunter Hodgson          
                                                              
                                                              
                                                             
 danielh@azstarnet.com                      
 jane-hodgson@ns.arizona.edu