Hocking County OhArchives Wills.....Burgess, Richard  July 27, 1868
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Source: Hocking County Records Repository
Written: July 27, 1868

In the name of god Amen I Richard Burgess of Falls Township Hocking County and 
state of Ohio being mindful of my mortality do this 27th day July 1868 make and 
publish this last will and testament in maner [sic] following

First. I desire to be decently buried in the church yard at Burgess Chappel  
also I give and bequeath unto my sone Henson all my goods and chattels moneys 
and accounts whatsoever

and  I do hereby constitute and appoint my sone Henson Sole executrix [sic] of 
this my last will and testament

in witness whereof I have set my hand and my seal the day and year first above 
written
                                                            his              
                                                    Richard  X  Burgess    seal
                                                           mark

[signature] John Kennedy
[signature] Joshua Wilson


Additional Comments:
Photocopy of handwritten will that was made known to the probate court on 8 
April 1872. I have no information about the will being recorded before that 
date. Even though enumerators for 1860 and 1870 cenususes recorded individuals 
that could not write on the same page as Richard's listing, they did not 
indicat that Richard could not write. The fact that the will was not recorded 
prior to his death and the probability that Richard could at least sign his 
name, and theat the executor was the sole heir to the exclusion of several of 
the executor's siblings calls into question the validity of this will, even 
though it was accepted by the probate court. 

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