WILL: Mary A. Keeney;  Rochester, Monroe co., NY
surname: Keeney, Crane

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Monroe co NY Will Book vol 52 page 109
Written: April 18 1891
Recorded: November 17 1893

Transcribed by Karyl Hubbard

RECORD OF WILL THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF MARY A. KEENEY
                                             

Of the City of Rochester, County of Monroe and State of New York.

     I, Mary A. Keeney, aware of the uncertainty of life, do make, ordain,
publish and declare this my last will and testament int the manner and form
following, that is to say:

     After the payment of my funeral charges, the expenses of administering
my estate and my lawful debts, I give, devise and bequeath my property as
follows;

     First: I will, devise and bequeath all my property, both real and person
to my beloved friend Matilda  B. Crane of the City of Rochester, N.Y.
absolutely and to heirs forever.

Likewise, I make constitute and appoint my friend Cassius C. Davy of
Rochester, N. Y. with full power to mortgage, sell and convey any or all of my
estate to be executor of 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 
18th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-one.

                                                                               
Mary A. Keeney (her seal)

     The above written instrument was subscribed by the said testatrix in our 
presence, and acknowledged by her to each of us, and she at the same time 
declared the above instrument, so subscribed , to be her last Will and 
Testament, and we, at her request, have signed our names a witnesses hereto in 
her presence and in the presence of each other, and written opposite our names 
our respective places of residence.
        Mabel K. Croft             Rochester, N.Y.
        Miss Hattie Baldock     Rochester, N.Y.
        Cassius Davy                Rochester, Monroe Co., N.Y


SURROGATE'S COURT
In the matter of Proving the Last Will and Testament of
Mary A. Keeney, deceased  

MONROE COUNTY, SS
City of Rochester       Hattie Baldock and Mabel K. Croft 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 Mary A. Keeney late of 
the City of Rochester in the County of Monroe and State of New York, deceased. 

     And these deponents do further say, that the said Mary A. Keeney
deceased, did, in the presence of each of these deponents subscribe her name
at the end of the instrument in writing, which is now here shown to the
deponents, and which purports to be the last Will and Testament for th said
deceased and which bears date on the 18th of April one thousand eight hundred
and ninety one.  That the said deceased died on or about the 7th day of
January 1893 at Rochester aforesaid, as deponents are informed and believe. 
That the said deceased did, at the time of subscribing her name to the said
instrument, as aforesaid, declare the same to be her last Will and Testament;
and these deponents did thereupon subscribe their own respective names, at the
end of said instrument, as attesting witnesses to the execution thereof, each
at the request of said deceased, and in her presence and the presence of each
other.  That the said deceased, at the time of so subscribing her name to said
instrument as aforesaid, and publishing said instrument as aforesaid, was of
full age, and a citizen of the United States; that she appeared to be, and
deponents believe she was, of sound mind, memory and understanding, and not
under any restraint, and as deponents verily believe, in all respects
comptenent to devise real estate; that each of these deponents saw the other
sign his name to this said instrument, in the presence of said deceased.

Subscribed and sworn to before me  Hattie Baldock
this 17th day of November, 1893    Mabel K. Croft
                                                                               
      J.A. Adlington
     surrogate of Monroe County

State of New York
County of Monroe
Surrogate's office

I Hereby certify that the annexed instrument being the last Will and Testament 
of Mary A. Keeney late of the City of Rochester in the Count of Monroe and 
State of New York, deceased, has upon due proof, been this day admitted to 
probate by the Surrogate’s Court of said County of Monroe, as a will valid to 
pass real and personal property; which said last Will and Testament, and the 
proofs taken thereon are recorded in the office of the Surrogate of said last 
mentioned County. 
                                                      
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my had and Affixed the seal 
of said Surrogate's Court at Rochester, In said County, this 17th day of
November in the year one Thousand eight hundred and ninety-three
                                                                               
     J.A. Adlington
     Surrogate

Monroe County, ss.
         It appearing upon the proofs duly taken in respect to the Last Will 
and Testament of Mary A. Keeney late of the City of Rochester in the County of 
Monroe and State of New York, deceased, that the said Will was duly executed, 
and that the said Mary A. Keeney at the time she executed the same, as in all 
respect competent to devise real estate, and not under restraint, the said
last Will and Testament and the proofs and examinations are hereby recorded,
signed, and certified by me, pursuant to the provisions of the Code of Civil
Procedure, this 17th day of November A.D. 1893

Recorded and examined,
November 17th 1893                                                         
William D. Kiefer
                                                                               

                   Clerk, Surrogate's Court.