Will of Appollonia Guhtmann - 1876 - 1894, Allegany County, Maryland 

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Appollonia Guhtmann
Wills - Allegany County
Maryland State Archives  Microfilm CR 29-1
Liber D, Folio 18 

        In the name of God Amen, I Appolenia Guhtman of the city of Cumberland, 
Allegany County Maryland Being in good health of body and of sound and disposing 
mind, memory and understanding, do make, ordain, publish, and declare the 
following to be my last will and testament.
1. I direct that my debts and funeral expenses be paid.
2. To my daughters, Sarah Kraft and Elizabeth Michler, I give and bequeath all 
the rest and residue of my personal estate, to be equally divided between them, 
share and share alike.
3. And lastly, I appoint John B. Widener of said city of Cumberland, Executor of 
this my last will and testament, revoking and annulling all former wills by me 
heretofore made, ratifying and confirming this and none other to be my last will 
and testament.
Witness my hand and seal this Seventh day of October, in the year eighteen 
hundred and seventy six.
         
                                (in German)     Appollonia Guhtmann (SEAL)

Signed, sealed, published and declared by Appolenia Guhtman, the above named 
testatrix as and for her last will and testament, in the presence of us, who at 
her request, in her presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed 
our names and witnesses hereto.
                                                John Kolb
                                                Henry Hast
State of Maryland
Allegany County to wit:
        On this the 2nd day of February 1894, came Andrew Kraft, the husband of 
Sarah Kraft, one of the legatees named in the aforegoing last will and testament 
of Appollonia Guhtmann, late of Allegany County Maryland, deceased, who found 
the said will among the private effects of the said deceased, after her decease, 
and made oath in due form of law that the aforegoing instrument of writing is 
the true whole last will and testament of the said deceased that hath come to 
his hands or possession and that he does not know of any other.
                                                Test. A. H. Dowden, Register

State of Maryland
Allegany County to wit:
        On this 5th day of February 1894, came Henry Hast, one of the subscribing 
witnesses to the aforegoing last will and testament of Appolonia Guhtmann, late 
of Allegany County Maryland deceased, and made oath in due form of law that he, 
in the presence of John Kolb (now deceased) the other subscribing witness to the 
said will, did see the testatrix therein named, sign and seal said will, that he 
heard her publish, pronounce and declare the same to be her last will and 
testament, that at the time of her so doing she was, to the best of his 
apprehension of sound and disposing mind, memory and understanding, capable of 
executing a valid deed or contract, and that they respectively subscribed his 
name as a witness thereto, at the request of the testatrix in her presence and 
all in the presence of each other.
                                                Test. A. H. Dowden, Register

State of Maryland
Allegany County to wit:
        On this 5th day of February 1894, before me the subscriber, Register of 
Wills of the State of Maryland in and for Allegany County, personally appeared 
John A. Kolb, a son of John Kolb, now deceased, one of the subscribing witnesses 
to the aforegoing last will and testament of Apollonia Guhtmann, late of 
Allegany County, Maryland deceased, and made oath in due form of law, that he is 
well acquainted with the handwriting of the said John Kolb deceased, the 
subscribing witness aforesaid, and that he believes that the signature of the 
said witness John Kolb deceased, to the aforegoing instrument of writing 
purporting to be the last will and testament of the said Appolonia Ghutmann, 
deceased, to be his the said John Kolb's, genuine signature to said will as 
therein set forth and written.
                                                Test.  A. H. Dowden, Register
Admitted to probate February 6, 1894

(Note: the various spellings of the name Appollonia Guhtmann are as they appear 
on the document recorded on microfilm)