Last Will and Testament of Philip SIGLER (1857), Allegany County, MD

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              Last Will and Testament of Philip Sigler

  In the Name of God, Amen.  I Philip Sigler, of Allegany County in the State of 
Maryland, being in perfect health of body and of sound and disposing mind and 
memory and understanding, considering the certainty of death and the undertainty 
of the time thereof and being desirous to settle my 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 commet my Soul into the hands of Almighty god, and 
my body to the earth, to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executor 
hereinafter named and after my debts and funeral charges are paid, I devise and 
bequeath as follows:
  Item.  I give and bequeath unto my beloved Wife, Elizabeth Sigler, the one 
third of my real and personally property for and during her natual life and 
after her decease, as follows, to wit:
  Item.  I give and bequeath to my son Otho Sigler in addition to what I have 
heretofore given him, the sum of one dollar.
  Item.  I give and bequeath to my daughter to Ellen Rinehart, married to John 
Rinehart, should she outlive me the sum of fifty dollars.
  Item.  I devise and bequeath all the rest and residue of my Estate, both real 
and personal, be there moreless to be equally dived among my sons and daughters 
hereinafter named to theirs, their heirs and assigns, forever in fee, in equal 
postion, share and share alike, to my son Jacob Sigler, to my daughter Mary 
Taylor, married to Eli Taylor, to my daughter, Jane Michaels, married to David 
Michaels, to my son, Jefferson R. Sigler, to my son Silas Sigler to my daughter, 
Martha Ann Potter, married to John Potter, to my son Philip Sigler and to my son 
George T. Sigler and their heirs as aforesaid, share and share alike.
  And lastly, I do hereby constitute and appoing my son in law David Michaels to 
be sole 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.
  In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal, this 
24th day of February in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty seven.

                                             Philip Sigler (SEAL)

  Signed, sealed, published and declared by Philip Sigler, the above named 
testator as end for his last Will and Testament, in the presence of use, who at 
his request, in his presence and in the presence of each other, have subscribed 
our names as witnesses thereto.

                                             William Combs
                                             Wm Shaw.
                                             Charles W. Duckworth.

Admitted to Probate November 16th, 1862.

True Copy.

Test: Hewey W. Shuck.
      Register of Wills for Allegany County, Maryland.

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Written on back:

This is the will of my great grandfather

Will of Philip Sigler
24 February 1857

wife Elizabeth
son Otho
Jacob
Jefferson Reese
Silas
Mary Ann Potter
Phillip
George T.