Will of John Rice -  1872, Allegany County, Maryland 

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JOHN RICE
Maryland State Archives 
Wills - Allegany County, Maryland
Microfilm CR 28-1 Liber B, Page 48

        In the name of God Amen, I John Rice of Allegany County in the State of 
Maryland being sick and 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 to settle any worldly affairs and thereby be the 
better prepared to leave this world when 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 commit my soul unto the hands of almighty God and my 
body to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executor herein 
named and after my debts and funeral charges are paid I devise and bequeath as 
follows:
Second and whereas, the property which I now possess hath been chiefly acquired 
by the joint industry and frugability of my dear wife and myself I devise and 
bequeath all the rest and residue of my estate both real and personal to my dear 
wife Anna Barbara to use to the best advantages in her judgment for the 
maintenance of my four dear children as long as she keeps my name, in the event 
my wife Anna Barbara would bet married or after her death the said property both 
real and personal shall be sold by a trustee appointed by the Orphans Court of 
said County and the proceeds thereof equally divided among my children then 
living.
        And lastly I hereby constitute and appoint my dear wife Anna Barbara to 
be my sole executor of this my last will and testament.
        In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal this fifteenth day of 
April in the year one thousand and eight hundred and seventy two.
                                        John Rice  (SEAL)
Signed Sealed Published and declared by the above named John Rice aforesaid for 
his last will and testament in our presence who at his request in his presence 
and in the presence of each other have hereunto set our hand as witnesses 
hereto.

                                                Adam Garinger
                                                John Eichardt
                                                John Weber
State of Maryland
Allegany County to wit
        On this 21st day of September 1872 came Anna B. Rice the Executor named in 
the aforegoing last will and Testament of John 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 her hands or possession and that she does not know of any other.
                                                Test Elijah Fuller Register

State of Maryland
        Allegany County to wit:
        On this 21st day of September 1872 came Adam Garinger, John Eichardt and 
John Weber? the three subscribing witnesses to the aforegoing Last Will and 
Testament of John Rice late of Allegany County deceased and made oath in due 
form of law that they did see the testator herein named sign and seal said will 
and that they heard him publish pronounce and declare the same to be his last 
will and Testament that at the time of his so doing he was to the best of their 
apprehension 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 testator in his presence 
and all in the presence of each other.
                                        Test Elijah Fuller Requester