LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF JOHN SHIPP - HOWARD COUNTY, MISSOURI
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                          LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT

            I John Shipp sen. Of Chariton township & county of Howard & state of 
Missouri, being advanced in years & knowing the uncertainty of life & also being 
infirm in body & in a precarious state of health, concidering myself to be of a 
sound & desposing mind, do declare this to be my last will & testament. I will 
that my depts. Shall first be paid if any exist at my demise together with my 
funeral expenses are paid, I will that an advance of seventy five dollars be made 
to my son James Q Shipp that being about the amount advanced to each & all my other 
children.
           I will that all the balance of my real & personal property, houses, 
lands, tenements & effects belong to my beloved wife & companion Mary Shipp during 
her widowhood or during her natural life in case she does not marry, but in that 
invent that she marries, then the intent of my will is that she entitled to no more 
than her dower in my estate & the residue equally distributed amongst my children 
with out exception, who will herein after be named & designated, but in the event 
that my beloved wife Mary Shipp does not marry, but remains a widow during life, 
I will that all my estate after her decease, both real & personal be equally 
divided & disbursed to the following heirs, ? (their administrator is assigns 
forever )? The surviving heirs of my daughter Letty Armick deceased shall be 
entitled to one share equal in all to only one share of my surviving children, 
Sarah Kivett my daughter shall be entitled to one full share, Joseph Shipp my 
son, to one share, (Choe)? Shipp my son to one share, Feilding Shipp my son, one 
share, the surving heirs of John ? Shipp my son deceased, one share, John H Shipp 
my son, one share, Mary ? Ballew my daughter, one share, Gibson M Shipp my son to 
one share, Joel W Shipp my son to one share & james Q ship my son to one share, I 
also constitute to appoint the Hon. -?- E - ?- of Howard County & state of Missouri 
to be the executor of this my last will & testament. In testimony of all the foregoing 
& with a perfect under stand of the same I hereunto affix my signature this 2nd day 
of October 1856.

                                  John Shipp  sen.      Testator
                                  John Fatum             witness
                                  Feilding Shipp         witness