Meigs County OhArchives Wills.....John Price June 9 1877
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Source: Meigs County, Ohio Will Book 4  Pages 570-572
Written: June 9 1877
Recorded: January 18 1881


Meigs County, Ohio Will      Book 4  Pages 570-572
Transcribed from SAMPUBCO copy by Charles A. Price
E-Mail   caleslieprice@prodigy.net
 
Will of John Price of Meigs Co. Ohio  and  Mason Co. West Virginia

Pleas before Robt. H. Brewster, Judge of the Court of Probate for and within 
the County

of Meigs and State of Ohio, at a session of said Court begun and held at the 
court house

in the City of Pomeroy on the 18th day of January AD1881.

 

In the matter of the Will

of John Price deceased. Motion to admit will to Probate and Record. Be it 
remembered

that heretofore to wit: On the 17th day of November AD1880, came Mary Price 
widow of

John Price deceased by J. Cartwright her attorney and produced to the court an 
instrument

of writing purporting to be a copy of the Last Will and Testament of John Price 
late of

Clifton, Mason County, West Virginia deceased and the probate thereof also her 
motion

that said Will and Certificate of Probate be admitted to record herein. It is 
therefore ordered

that said Motion be set for hearing on the 18th day of January AD1881 at 10 
o'clock AM 

and that Notice thereof be given as required by law.

 

 

And afterwards to wit: on the 18th day of January AD1881 the following Notice 
and Proof

of Publication was filed herein to wit: 

State of Ohio Meigs County SS} In the Probate Court in the matter of the Last 
Will of 

John Price deceased. Notice is hereby given to all persons interested therein 
that Mary

Price, widow of said John Price and a legatee in said Will on the 17th day of 
November

AD1880 produced in the Probate Court of Meigs County an authenticated copy of 
the

last will of John Price deceased together with an authenticated copy of the 
Probate

thereof, as the same are of record in the County Court of Mason County in the 
State of West 

Virginia: and that Mary Price at the same time filed her motion in said Probate 
Court to

have said authenticated copy of said will and the probate thereof so 
authenticated

admitted to record in said Probate Court of Meigs County. Said motion has been 
continued

for hearing and will be finally heard on the 18th day of January AD1881 at 10 
o'clock in the

forenoon of that day.

By J. Cartwright, her attorney Mary Price

 

Proof of Publication

E.S. Trussell being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that he is one of the 
publishers of the

Meigs County Telegraph, a newspaper of general circulation, published weekly in 
Pomeroy,

Meigs County, Ohio: and that the annexed advertisement was published in said 
paper 6

consecutive weeks, the last publication being on Wednesday, the 22nd day of 
December

AD1880 and further deponent saith not.

E.S. Trussell

Sworn and Subscribed before me this 18th day of January AD1881

Robt. H. Brewster Probate Judge

 

And thereupon to wit: on the 18th day of January AD1881 came Mary Price by J. 
Cartwright

her attorney and filed in this court said copy of the Will of John Price 
deceased and Probate

which are in the words and figures following to wit:

I John Price of the town of Clifton, County of Mason and State of West Virginia 
make this

my Last Will and Testament. I give devise and bequeath my estate and property 
real and personal

as follows. That is to say to my wife Mary Price all my real estate situated 
and being in Pomeroy,

Meigs County Ohio and described as follows. Lots no 271 and 272 being the lots 
of Rees E.

Williams and wife and recorded in Vol 27 pages 49 and 50 of the Records of 
Deeds Pomeroy

Meigs County Ohio. I also bequeath to her the said Mary Price my wife, the 
following personal

property as follows, all of the stock belonging to me which I hold in the 
Excelsior Salt Company

doing business in Meigs County Ohio, also all the stock which I hold in the 
German Salt

Company of Mason County West Virginia. The condition of the above will is such 
that so 

long as she remains my widow she is to hold and use as her own the property 
both real and

personal which I have named in the will, but in the advent of her remarriage 
then all of the

said property herein mentioned shall be divided equally among my children.

I appoint Roger B. Rees of Clifton Mason County West Virginia, executor of this 
my will.

In witness whereof I have signed and sealed and published and declared this 
instrument

as my will.

Given at Clifton Mason County on this 9th day of June AD1877.

John X Price Seal

his mark

The said John Price at place and on said day signed and sealed this instrument 
and

published and declared the same as and for his Last Will and we at his request 
and in his

presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto written our names as

subscribing witnesses. J. Ed Hovey

Rees E. Williams

Roger B. Rees

An order made in vacation

West Virginia SS

In the clerks office of the County Court of Mason County November __ 1877 a 
writting

purporting to be the Last Will and Testament of John Price deceased late of 
Mason County 

West Virginia was this day produced in said office and fully proved according 
to law by the 

oaths of Rees E. Williams and Roger B. Rees two subscribing witnesses thereto 
and thereupon

the said writing is ordered to be recorded as and for the Last Will and 
Testament of the said

John Price deceased in due form. E. Kimberling Clerk

 

State of West Virginia County of Mason} To Wit:

I JPRB Smith, clerk of the Mason County Court in and for the County and State 
aforesaid do

certify that he foregoing Will of said John Price deceased and the Probate 
thereof is a true copy as 

taken from the records in my said office.

In testimony whereof I have hereinto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of 
said court at

Point Pleasant Mason County West Virginia this 2nd day of December 1879

JPRB Smith

Clerk

Mason County West Virginia

 

and thereupon to wit: on the 18th day of January AD 1881 came Mary Price a 
legatee in last will

and being a person interested therein having by her attorney on the 17th day of 
November AD 1880 

produced to the Probate Judge of Meigs County Ohio a duly authenticated copy of 
the last will

of said John Price with the probate thereof and having at the same time filed 
her motion in the

Probate Court of said Meigs County for the purpose of having such authenticated 
copy of said last 

will together with the Probate thereofas made and of record in the County Court 
of said Mason 

County allowed and admitted to record in said Probate Court and which motion 
was continued

till and set for hearing on the 18th day of January AD 1881 at the hour of ten 
o'clock AM of said

day. Now at the time set as aforesaid for the hearing of said motion came the 
said Mary Price by

her attorney J. Cartwright and made proof of the due publication of the notice 
of filing and

pendancy of said motion as required by law for six weeks consecutively the 
first publication being

more than 40 days beforethe said 18th day of January AD 1881 in the Meigs 
County Telegraph a

public newspaper printed and of general circulation in said County of Meigs.

And it being made to appear to said Probate Court on the hearing of said 
motion, that the said

authenticated copy of said last will and probate thereof ought to be allowed in 
this state. It is therefore

ordered by said Probate Court that the said authenticated copy of said last 
will with the Probate 

thereof be filed and recorded in said Probate Court.

Robt. H. Brewster Judge


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