Wills: Will of Eliza Ann Gill, (1890) Baltimore County, Maryland

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Last Will and Testament of Eliza Ann Gill   (nee Turnbaugh)

Source:  MSA Tape CR-121-1, Page 354.


I Eliza Ann Gill of Balto. County and of the State of Maryland, Considering
the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the time thereto and being
desirous of settleing my worldly affairs and thereby be the better prepared
to leave this world when it shall please Almighty 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 soul into the hands of Almighty God, and
my body to the Earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my executer
herein after named.  After all my just debts and funeral charges are paid, I
devise and bequeath as follows:
    I devise and bequeath unto my Son Thomas E. Gill all of my property real,
personal, and mixed wheresoever situated or found to be his absolutely,
subject to the following conditions, that he pay ten dollars to each of my
five children namely Annie Pearce widow of Caleb Pearce, Joshua T. Gill,
Jacob R. Gill, George N. Gill, & Rachel J. Goff.
    And lastly I do Constitute and appoint Thomas E. Gill 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
Eighteenth day of October A.D. Eighteen hundred and ninety

                            Eliza A (her X mark) Gill

Sign, sealed, published and declared by Eliza A. Gill the above named
Testatrix as and for her last Will and testament in the presence of us who at
her request in her presence of each other have subscribed our names as
witnesses thereto.

                            William H. Tracey
                            James W. Akehurst

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Baltimore County, SS.
    On the 17th day of April 1895, came William H. Tracey and made oath on
the Holy Evangely of Almighty God, that he does not know of any Will or
Codicil of Eliza A. Gill, late of said county, deceased, other than the above
Instrument of Writing, and that he received the same from Thomas E. Gill, on
or about the 1st day of January, 1894.
    Sworn in open Court.                Test:  Henry J. Hebb
                Register of Wills for Baltimore County

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Baltimore County, SS.
    On the 17th day of April, 1895, came William H. Tracey, And on the 30th
day of April, 1885, came James W. Akehurst subscribing witnesses to the
foregoing last Will and Testament of Eliza A. Gill, late of said County,
deceased, and made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God, that they did
see the Testatrix sign and seal this 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 apprehension of sound and
disposing mind, memory, and understanding, and that they subscribed their
names as witnesses to this Will in her presence at her request, and in the
presence of each other.
    Sworn to in open Court
                Test:  Henry J. Hebb
                Register of Wills for Baltimore County

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In the Orphans' Court of Baltimore County:
    The Court, after having carefully examined the above last Will and Test
ament of Eliza A. Gill, late of Baltimore County, deceased, and also the
evidence adduced as to its validity, Orders and Decrees this 30th day of
April, 1895, that the same be admitted in this Court as the true and genuine
last Will and Testament of said Eliza A. Gill, deceased,
                Mark Mellor, Andrew Dorsey, William H. Tracey.