Will of Fanny Rice  -  1885 - 1886, Allegany County, Maryland 

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Fanny Rice
Allegany County Wills
Maryland State Archives   Microfilm CR 29-1
Liber E, Page 156

        I, Fanny M. Rice of the City of Cumberland, Maryland do make this my last 
will and testament, in manner following that is to say:
        I give devise and bequeath unto my son and only child Oliver Baker, the 
son of my late husband Daniel C. Baker, All my property of every kind and 
description, real personal and mixed and wherever situated,
        I appoint Rev. Philip N. Meade to be guardian of my said son, and to be 
the executor of this my will, hereby revoking all other wills made by me.
        In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and seal on the twenty third 
day of December eighteen hundred and eighty five.
                                                Fanny M. (X her mark) Rice
Signed, Sealed Published and declared, by the above named testator Fanny M. 
Rice, as and for her last will and testament, in the presence of us, who, at her 
request and in her presence, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto 
subscribed our names, as witnesses thereto.
                                                Robert R. Henderson
                                                Anna M. Henderson

State of Maryland
Allegany County to wit:
        On this 15th day of January 1886, came Philip N. Meade the executor named 
in the aforegoing last will and testament of Fanny M. Rice, late of Allegany 
County, deceased, and made oath in due form of law that the aforegoing 
instrument of writing is the true whole last will and testament of said 
deceased, that hath come to his hand or possession and he does not know of any 
other.
                                                Test. Jno Rhind, Register

State of Maryland 
Allegany County to wit:
        On the 15th day of January 1886 came Robert R. Henderson and Anna M. 
Henderson, the two subscribing witnesses to the aforegoing last will and 
testament of Fanny M. Rice, late of Allegany County, deceased, and made oath in 
due form 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 the 
testatrix, in her presence, and all in the presence of each other.
                                                Test. Jno Rhind, Register