WILL OF WARREN GOODELL; BIRDSALL, ALLEGANY COUNTY, NEW YORK Copyright (c) 1999 by Mary C. Smith (carthage42@hotmail.com). ************************************************************************ USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. 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Second. - I give, devise and bequeath to my sister Olive Dexter of Birdsall, Allegany County, N.Y., all my property, both real and personal of every name and nature, wheresoever the same may be situated to be hers absolutely, to do with it as she desires. Likewise, I make, constitute and appoint my niece Lizzie Scoville of Birdsall, Allegany County, New York, to be my executrix of this my last Will and Testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me made. In Witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal, the 25th day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety seven. Warren Goodell (L.S.) The above partly written and partly printed instrument was subscribed by the said Warren Goodell, in our presence and acknowledged by him to each of us, and he at the same time declared the above instrument, so subscribed by him to be his last Will and Testament: and we at his request sign our names as attesting witnesses hereto, in his Presence and in the Presence of each other, and write opposite our names our respective places of residence. D. D. Dickson, residing at Angelica, N.Y. Mrs. Lizzie Scoville, residing at Birdsall N.Y. STATE OF NEW YORK Allegany County Surrogate's Office ss BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the day of the date hereof, the Last Will and Testament of Warren Goodell, late of the town of Birdsall in the County of Allegany and State of New York, deceased, being the within and foregoing written instrument, was duly proved before Elta Reynolds, Surrogate of the said County, according to law as and for the Last Will and Testament of the real and personal estate of the said deceased, which said Last Will and Testament, and the proofs and examinations taken thereon are recorded in this office. (L.S.) IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, The Surrogate of the said County hath hereunto set his hand and affixed his seal of office, this 17th day of June A.D. 1904 Elta Reynolds Surrogate of Allegany County Proof of Will Surrogate's Court -- County of Allegany In the Matter of Proving the Last Will and Testament of Warren Goodell Deceased ALLEGANY COUNTY, SS. Dawson D. Dickson and Lizzie Humphrey being first duly sworn in open Court, each for himself, doth depose and say, that he is a subscribing witness to the last Will and Testament of Warren Goodell late of town of Birdsall in the County of Allegany and State of New York deceased And these deponents do further say that the said Warren Goodell deceased, did, in the presence of each of these deponents subscribe his name at the end of the instrument in writing, which is now here shown to these deponents, and which purports to be the last Will and Testament of the said deceased, and which bears date on the 25th day of December one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven. That said deceased died on or about the 3rd day of February, 1904, at Birdsall, Allegany County, New York That said the decased did, at the time of subscribing his name to the said instrument as aforesaid, declare the same to be his last Will and Testament; and these deponents did respectively subscribe their own names at the end of said instrument, as attesting witnesses to the execution thereof, each at the request of the said deceased, and in his presence, and in the presence of each other: That the said deceased, at the time of so subscribing his name to said instrument as aforesaid, and publishing said instrument as aforesaid was of full age; that he appeared to be, and deponents believe he was of sound mind, memory and understanding, and not under any restraint, and, as deponents verily believe, in all respects competent to devise real estate; that each of these deponents saw the other sign his name to the said instrument in the presence of the said deceased, and the said Lizzie Humphrey says, further that she is the same person as Lizzie Scoville whose name is attached to said Will as witness thereto. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 17th day of June 1904. D. D. Dickson Lizzie Humphrey Elta Reynolds Surrogate of Allegany County (Transcribed by Mary C. Smith from a photocopy of the will and probate record.)