Guernsey-Belmont-Noble County OhArchives Wills.....Wilson, Henry April 15, 1875
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Source: Guernsey County, Ohio Wills, 1875-1891, Volume 3, Page 389.
Written: April 15, 1875
Recorded: March 4, 1882

Guernsey County, Ohio Wills, 1875-1891, Volume 3, page 389.
Henry Wilson’s Will
In the name of the Benevolent Father of all I Henry Wilson of Guernsey County 
in the State of Ohio being of advanced age and declining health yet of sound 
and disposing mind and memory and wishing to provide for final distribution of 
my worldly effects after my death do make and publish this my last will and 
testament as follows.  Item 1st I give and devise to my beloved wife Cynthia  
(should she survive me) all the real estate which I now own situate in 
Wheeling township Guernsey County Ohio and on which I now reside containing 
about two hundred acres together with all the personal property of which I may 
die seized during her natural life except so much thereof as may be necessary 
to pay all my just debts and funeral expenses Item 2nd  After the decease of 
myself and wife aforesaid I give and devise to my son Alexander Wilson all the 
real estate which I now own as described in Item first together with all my 
personal effects both property and money after the payment of my just debts 
and funeral expenses of myself and wife and of the payment by my executors of 
the following legacies viz:  to my son George Wilson fifty dollars to my son 
Henry Wilson fifty dollars to my son Preston Wilson five dollars to my son 
Samuel Wilson five dollars to my daughter Harriet Sheetz five dollars and to 
my daughter Sarah Baker five dollars my six last named children having been 
heretofore otherwise provided for having received from my various sums of 
money at different times which was advanced by me to them as their share of my 
estate.  Item 3d  I hereby appoint my two sons Preston Wilson and Alexander 
Wilson Executors of this my last will and testament authorizing them to 
collect by suit or otherwise all debts due me and to pay and adjust all just 
debts due from me and if it should become necessary in order to the support of 
myself and wife and the payment of my just debts and the legacies before 
mentioned they are hereby authorized to sell of my real estate and deeds to 
purchasing execute in fee simple selling first however the forty acres known 
as the Sheetz lot being N.E. ¼ of N.E. ¼ of Sec 12 of township four and range 
four signed by said Henry Wilson and acknowledged as his last will and 
testament hereby revoking all former wills in our presence and signed by us in 
his presence and at his request this 15 day of April A.D. 1875
Henry (my X mark) Wilson
John Keets
G.W. Phillips
Filed for probate 4 March 1882


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