Frederick County MD Archives Wills.....John Albert PETERS, September 14, 1895
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Source: Frederick County Courthouse
Written: September 14, 1895
Recorded: October 15, 1895

Will

John Albert Peters
September 14, 1895


John A. Peters, Will – Mary Helena Peters, Executrix

In the name of God, Amen.

I, John A. Peters, of Frederick County in the State of Maryland being of sound 
and disposing mind, memory and understanding, do hereby 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 into the hands of Almighty God and my body to 
the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executrix hereinafter 
named and after my debts and funeral charges are paid.  I devise and bequeath 
as follows:

To my beloved wife Mary Helena I give all my real and personal property and all 
I have or possess as long as she lives, and after her death it is to be divided 
in share and share alike to each of my children.

I appoint my beloved wife Mary Helena to be sole executrix of this my last will 
and Testament, 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 
fourteenth day of September 1895.

His Mark  - X – John A. Peters

Signed sealed published and declared by John A. Peters the above named Testator 
as and for his will and Testament in the presence of us, who at his request in 
his presence, and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names and 
witness thereto

Witness: Augustine Wagner
Samuel A. Hemler
J. G. Troxel

Maryland, Frederick County to Wit:

On this 15 day of October 1895, came J. G. Troxel and made oath on the Holy 
Evangely of Almighty God, that the aforegoing instrument of writing is the true 
whole Will and Testament of John A. Peters late of Frederick County, deceased, 
that has come to his hands and possession: that he received the same from the 
Testator for safe keeping, and that he does not know of any other of a later 
date.

Test: James K. Waters
Register of Wills for Frederick County


Maryland, Frederick County to Wit:

On this 15 day of October 1895, came Augustine Wagner, Samuel A. Hemler, and J. 
G. Troxel the subscribing witnesses to the aforegoing last Will and Testament 
of John A. Peters late of Frederick County, deceased, and made oath on the Holy 
Evangely of Almighty God, that they did see John A. Peters the Testator therein 
named, sign and seal this Will: that they heard him publish, pronounce and 
declare the same to be his last Will and Testament: that at the time of his 
doing so he was, to the best of their apprehension of sound and disposing mind, 
memory and understanding, and capable of executing a valid deed or contract, 
and that they respectively subscribed their names as Witnesses to said Will, in 
the presence of and at the request of the Testator and that they did also see 
each other subscribing witness sign his name as Witness to said Will, at the 
request of the Testator in his presence, and all in the presence of each other.

Test: James K. Waters
Register of Wills for Frederick County



In The Orphans’ Court of Frederick County:

The Court after having carefully examined the above last Will and Testament of 
John A. Peters, late of Frederick County, deceased, and also the evidence 
adduced as to its validity.  Orders and Decrees this 15 day of October, AD 1895 
that the same be admitted to probate in this Court as the true and genuine last 
Will and Testament of the said John A. Peters, deceased.

Bernard Colliflower
John R. Mills
Harrison Miller
Judges of the Orphans’ Court




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