Will of Henry WILSON (1870) Carroll County, Maryland

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Abstracted. If you know these people please contact me.

Noncupative Will made by Henry Wilson of Carroll County (now deceased) on the 
26th day of April 1870 -

I authorize and direct my Executors hereinafter named to sell so much of my 
personal property as may be necessary to pay all my funeral expences and all my 
just debts, and the balance of all my personal and all my real estate I will and 
bequeath unto my beloved wife Susan [nee Heiser/Hiser] to have and to hold as 
long as she will live and after her death then it is my will that the whole of 
my personal property and real estate shall be sold by my executors at public 
sale and the money arising be equally divided among all my children share and 
share alike ... shall give good and sufficient title for all my property ... 
with that my daughter Mary shall have the same amount ... as any of my children 
got from home -

I also direct that my son Joseph shall pay to my estate the money he owes me the 
same as our contract is without interest.

And lastly I appoint my son Abraham and my son Joseph as my sole Executors of 
this my last Will and Testament.

We the undersigned subscribe our names to this the last Will and Testament of 
Henry Wilson late of Carroll County deceased as it was given to us orally before 
his death.

John H. Frock; Peter Krideler; Christian Crouse

On the 10th day of May 1870 before the Orphans Court of Carroll County came John 
H. Frack ... and made oath that the same is the true and whole noncupative will 
of Henry Wilson late of Carroll County deceased; That it was delivered to him on 
the 3rd dan of May 1870 by Francis Warner, the person who reduced the same into 
writing under the instruction of the subscribing witnesses.

On the 10th day of April in the year 1870 ...came John H. Frack and Christian 
Crose ... and made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that on the 26th 
day of April 1870 they were sent for by the said Henry Wilson for the purpose of 
witnessing a will which he intended to make; that they attended on said day at 
the house of the same Henry Wilson where he had for many years resided in 
Carroll county and found him suffering from severe illness, in fact in his last 
sickness; that these men were in the room with the said testator, at the same 
time, Peter Krideler, the other subscribing witness ... also Dr. John F. B. 
Weaver and Peter Gehrhart, that the ... That the said testamentary words were 
spoken between 12 am and 2 O'clock PM on the 26th day of April 1870; and that 
the said Testator died between 10 and 11 O'clock of the night of the same day. 
... on the 3d day of May 1870 together with the said Peter Krideler met at the 
said late residence of the said Testator and then and there employed Francis 
Warner to reduce said noncupative will of said Testator into writing...