Ashtabula County OhArchives Wills.....Wallace C. Strickland June 6 1859
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Written: June 6 1859
Recorded: July 11 1859


Ashtabula Co., OH, Vol. A2, pg. 336

In the matter of Wallace C. Strickland’s Will

Be it remembered that heretofore to wit at the Court of Probate held at the 
court house in the town of Jefferson in the County of Ashtabula and State of 
Ohio on the tenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight 
hundred and fifty-nine the Last Will and Testament of Wallace C. Strickland 
late of Morgan in said County was produced in Court and it appearing that John 
B. Morris, David Clough and Mary C. Smith the subscribing witnesses to the 
said will being absent from this state and residents of Wilberham (?) in the 
County of Hampden and state of Massachusetts, it is ordered by the Court that 
a commission be issued, with the will attached, to William P. Chaffee of the 
said town of Wilberham in the County of Hampden, State of Massachusetts, to 
take the depositions of the said John B. Morris, David Clough and Mary C. 
Smith, and return the same attached to said Will and commission to this court 
with all convenient speed. Thereupon a commission with the will attached 
issued, which said Commission is in the words and figures following, to wit:
The State of Ohio, Ashtabula County
To William P. Chaffee, Esq. Wilberham, Mass.,
Greeting. Know ye that in confidence of your prudence and fidelity I have 
appointed you and by these presents do give to you full power and authority to 
examine and take the depositions of John B. Morris, David Clough and Mary C. 
Smith the subscribing witnesses to the last Will and Testament of Wallace C. 
Strickland hereto annexed, late of Morgan, Ashtabula County, and State of Ohio 
deceased. And therefore you are hereby commanded that at a certain day or 
days, and place or places to be appointed by you, you cause the said John B. 
Morris, David Clough, and Mary C. Smith, to be brought before you and then and 
there examine them upon their corporeal oath or affirmation first taken before 
you touching the due execution of said Will of the said Wallace C. Strickland, 
particularly whether the said John B. Morris, David Clough and Mary C. Smith 
were present when the said Wallace C. Strickland signed said Will; whether the 
said testator at the time of executing the same was of sound and disposing 
mind and memory, and more than twenty-one years of age; whether the said 
testator executed the said will freely and voluntarily being under no 
restraint; and whether the said John B. Morris, David Clough, and Mary C. 
Smith attested the said Will in the presence of the said Wallace C. Strickland 
and of each other, and that you reduce such examination to writing and return 
the same with this commission and the said Will of the said Wallace C. 
Strickland hereto attached, closed up under your seal unto the Court of 
Probate of said County of Ashtabula with all convenient speed. Witness my hand 
and official seal at Jefferson this 10th day of June AD 1859. W.A. Plumb (?) 
Probate Judge by C. G. (or S) Bushnell Depty Clerk {LS}
Which said commission, Will and testimony attached was afterwards to wit on 
the Twenty fourth day of August in the year last above mentioned was returned 
into the Probate Court under seal. Which said testimony and return is in the 
words and figures following, to wit: 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Hampden County SS. I hereby certify that before 
me, William P. Chaffee to whom the above Commission was directed, the above 
named John B. Morris, David Clough and Mary C. Smith were duly sworn and their 
several depositions were taken by me at Wilberham in Hampden County on the 
11th day of July Eighteen hundred and fifty nine. William P. Chaffee {LS}
Testimony:
In the matter of the Last Will and Testament of Wallace C. Strickland late of 
the Town of Morgan in the County of Ashtabula and State of Ohio. We the 
subscribing being duly sworn depose and say that we were present when the said 
Wallace C. Strickland signed said Will, and that he was at the time of sound 
and siposing mind and memory and more than twenty-one years of age, and that 
he executed the same freely and voluntarily being under no restraint and that 
we attested said Will in the presence of said Wallace C. Strickland and of 
each other. John B. Morris, David Clough, Mary C. Smith, sworn to and 
subscribed before me the 11th day of July AD 1859. William P. Chaffee. 
Which said Will is in the words and figures following, to wit:

“Be it remembered that I Wallace C. Strickland of Morgan, Ashtabula County, 
State of Ohio, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament, and in 
manner and form following, viz.:
I give, devise, and bequeath to my beloved wife Mary Ann Strickland, her heirs 
and assigns forever, all my estate both real and personal of which I may die 
seized, after paying my just debts and funeral expenses. And I hereby nominate 
and appoint my wife Mary Ann Strickland executor of this my last Will and 
testament, revoking all others. In witness whereof I have herunto set my hand 
and seal this third day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight 
hundred and fifty nine(?). 
his
Wallace C. X Strickland
mark
Signed, sealed, and published and declared by the said Wallace C. Strickland 
in the presence of us who subscribed the same as witnesses thereto in his 
presence and at his request and in the presence of each other.
John B. Morris
David Clough
Mary C. Smith

Attest: Henry Tapett (?) Probate Judge


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