Will of Catherine Rice -  1864, Allegany County, Maryland 

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Catherine Rice
Maryland State Archives - Microfilm CR 28-1  
Liber C, Folio 44

        In the name of God, Amen, I Catherine Rice of Allegany County in the State 
of Maryland being weak in body but of sound and disposing mind, memory and 
understanding, considering the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the 
time thereof and being desirous of settling my worldly affairs before it shall 
please God to call me hence do therefore make and publish this my last will and 
Testament in manner and form following that is to say:  
        First and principally I commend my spirit to the keeping of its merciful 
author and body I commit to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of 
my executor hereinafter named and after my debts and funeral expenses are paid I 
give and devise as follows:
        Item:  I give and devise unto my sister Susannah Paxton and her husband 
Nelson Paxton all my Estate both real and personal for and during their natural 
lives and the life of the survivor of them, and after the death of the said 
Susannah and Nelson I give and devise all the said Estate to the children of the 
said Susannah Paxton and Nelson I give and devise all the said Estate to the 
children of the said Susannah Paxton their heirs and assigns forever share and 
share alike.
        And lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint the said Nelson Paxton to be 
the sole Executor of this my last will and Testament revoking and annulling all 
former wills by me heretofore made testify and confirming this and none other to 
be my last will and testament.
        In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my 
seal this first day of July in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty 
four.
                                                Catherine (X her mark) Rice

Signed sealed published and declared by Catharine Rice, 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 as witnesses hereto.
                                                        Thos. Wilkinson
Henry Valentine,   John (X his mark) Rice,       J. B. Widener

Maryland Allegany County to wit:
        On this 8th day of December 1864 came Nelson Paxton Executor, and made 
oath in due form of law that the foregoing instrument of writing is the whole 
last Will and Testament of Catharine Rice late of said County deceased that has 
come to his hands or possession and that he does not know of any other.
                                                Test. Geo. W. Hoover - Register

Maryland Allegany County to wit:
        On this 8th Day of December 1864 came Thos. Wilkinson, Henry 
Valentine, John Rice and J. B. Widener the subscribing witnesses to the 
foregoing last Will and Testament of Catharine Rice, late of said County 
deceased and made oath in due forms of law that they did see the testatrix 
therein named sign and seal said will - that they 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 their apprehensions of sound and disposing mind 
memory and understanding capable of executing a valid deed or contract, and that 
they respectively subscribed their names as witnesses to said will at the 
request of said testatrix in her presence and in the presence of each other.
                                                Test. - Geo. W. Hoover - Register