Hocking County OhArchives Wills.....Mowery, Jacob January 26, 1865
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Source: Document #741 Hocking County Court House Logan, Ohio
Written: January 26, 1865

In the name of God, Amen.
I, Jacob Mowery of the Township of Marion & the County of Hocking & the State 
of Ohio, being of sound mind & memory & considering the uncertainty of this 
frail & transitory life do therefore make and ordain publish & declare this to 
be my last Will & Testament: that is to say first after all my lawful debts 
are paid & discharged the residue of my estate real & personal I give bequeath 
& dispose of as follows to wit. to my beloved Wife the land & appurtenances 
situated there on known as the East half of the North East qr of Section 
Twenty four Township Eighteen Range Seventeen (continuing Eighty Five acres, 
more or less of the Township, County, & State afforesaid. & also Seventy two 
Acres of land more or less in Monday Creek Township Perry County, Ohio in 
range Nineteen Township Fourteen Section Nineteen being the land on which JOhn 
MOwery's family is at this time livng with the appurtenances thereon. To have 
& to hold the same during his natural life for his exclusive benefit & after 
his death to be sold & the proceeds thereof to be equally divide to each of my 
heirs namely Jacob Moery, John Mowery, Mary Mowery now Miller, Elizabeth 
Mowery (to her heirs), Sarah Mowery, Cahtarine Mowery now Delong, Geo Mowery, 
Dolman Mowery & to no one else. Likewise I make constitute and appoint John 
Hunsaker to be Executor of this my last will & testament hereby reworking old 
former wills by me made.

In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed my seal the 
26th day of Jan. 1865

Jacob (X) Mowery
(his mark)

The above written instrument was subscribed byt eh said Jacob Mowery in our 
presence & acknowledged by him to us & he at the same time declared the a bove 
instrument to be his last will & testament & we as the testators request & in 
his presence ha ve signed our names as our witnesses hereto & written opposite 
our names our respective places of residence.

John Hunsaker  Marion T.P. HOcking Co.
Abraham S. Beery  Marion T.P. Hocking Co.
Cahterine Hunsaker  Marion T. P. Hocking Co.

Additional Comments:
Jacob Mowery born 1799 in Pennsylvania and died 1865 in Gore, Marion Township, 
Hocking County, Ohio and married to Catherine Burket Jan. 1, 1822 in Perry 
County, Ohio (Book 1, page 29 Perry County Marriage Records, Perry County 
Court house, New Lexington, Ohio.)

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