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WILL OF ASAHEL PAGE 1827-1859 Son of John Page and Rachel Hartman Verbal Will ? to writing by undersigned Be it remembered that Sale Page esq. Of Clermont County Ohio in his Last sickness on the 11th day of April AD 1859 called upon the undersigned Samuel Hartman and Anthony Ivens to hear testimony to the words then and there spoken by said testator as his Last Will and testament of his personal estate made and proven ? in the presence of the undersignees ? the following language (to wit) Item 1: After my Funeral and other just debts are paid, I give and bequeath unto Miss Harriet E. Guilford of Cincinnati, Ohio my gold watch and four hundred dollars in money to be collected of my personal estate and paid to her by my beloved Father John Page who I do nominate and appoint my executor of this my will. Item 2: I do give and bequeath unto my beloved sister Marget Page the sum of two hundred dollars to be collected of my effects and paid to her by my executors. Item 3: I do give and bequeath unto my beloved Father and Mother John and Rachel Page the balance of my personal estate and effects. In testemony whereof we have hereunto Subscribed our names on this the 12th /day of April AD 1859 Samuel Hartman Anthony Ivens THE STATE OF OHIO CLERMONT COUNTY, CLERMONT PROBATE COURT Probate of the verbal will of Asahel Page deceased, presented on the 12th day of August A.D. 1859. Personally appeared in open Court Samuel Hartman and Anthony Ivens. The subscribing witnesses of the last will and testament of Asahel Page deceased, who being duly sworn according to law to speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, in relation to the execution of said will depose and say that they were present at the residence of said Asahael Page on the 12th April 1859 when said Ashael commenced talking to witnesses about the disposition that he wished made of his property and the said Ashael made the disposition of this property as set forth in said verbal will and that at the time of making said verbal will the said testator was in his last sickness and died on the 22 day of June AD 1859 and said verbal will was reduced to writing by us within one day after the speaking of words. That they were present at the making of said verbal will and at the request of the deceased, subscribed their names to said will as witnesses in the presence of the deceased, and of each ? and heard him acknowledge the same to be his last will and testament that the said Asahel Page was at the time of making, signing, and sealing said will, of legal age and of sound and disposing mind and memory, and under no undue or unlawful restraint whatsoever. Sworn to an subscribed in open court this 12th day of August AD 1859 Anthony Ivens, Samuel Hartman S.F. {Dowdney?} probate Judge by R.S. McKinlay, Clerk State of Ohio Clermont County ? ? Clerk of the Probate Court of said County, Personally / James A Sargent who being duly sworn in according to Law deposes and says that he was at the house of John Page on the 21st day of June AD 1859 in Washington Township in said County and that Asahel Page, son of said John Page was then lying sick, and that said Asahel Page stated to said dep? That he wished to make a change in his verbal will as follows that he wished his father John Page to have his watch and he gave said watch to said John Page in my presence, and that said Asahel Page stated that he thought it more suitable for his Father to have than for Harriet E. Guilford the person whom he had willed it to in his will. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 12 day of Aug AD 1859 James A. Sargent/ R. S. McKinlay, clerk EXECUTOR'S BOND Know all men by these Presents that John Page executor of the last will and testament of Asahel Page of the county of Clermont and State of Ohio, deceased and Samuel Hartman and James A Sargent all of the county of Clermont aforesaid are held and firmly bound unto the State of Ohio in the penal sum of three thousand dollars, the payment whereof will and truly to be made, we do hereby jointly and severally bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators firmly by these presents, sealed with our seals and dated at Batavia, this 12th day of August AD 1859. The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas the said executor have caused to be proven the said last Will and Testament of said Asahel Page deceased, and taken upon John Page the duties of executor as aforesaid. Now if the said John Page shall, First-Make and return to the Court on oath, within three months, a true inventory of all the moneys, goods, chattels, rights and credits, of the Testator, which are by law to be administered, and which shall have come to his possession or knowledge; and also, if required by the Court, an Inventory of the real estate of the deceased. Secondly-To administer according to law and to the will of the Testator, all his goods, chattels, rights and credits, and the proceeds of all his real estate that may be sold for the payment of his debts, or legacies which shall at any time come to the possession of the said John Page as executor or to the possession of any other person for him. Thirdly To render upon oath a just and true account of his administration within eighteen months and at any other time as required by the Court or the law- and shall well and faithfully perform all the duties required of him as executor as aforesaid by law, then the above obligation to be void-otherwise to remain in full force and virtue in law. Acknowledged in open court . Signed by John Page, Samuel Hartman, James A. Sargent Handwritten account John Page, Executor Hallin(?) Gilford Legatee paid $400.00 Mary A Page " " 200.00 Funeral Expenses 80.00 Probate Court on settlement and ? fee and stamp 4.55 $684.55 Amt of Bal due Executor as Legatee in Will 915.45 $1600.00 To amt of assets which came into the hands of Said executor ? $1600.00 The State of Ohio, Clermont County Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, Judge of the Probate Court in and for said county John Page Executor of the estate of Asahel Page deceased, who upon oath deposeth and saith that the annexed Account Current of the personal property of the said Asahel Page deceased, is in all respects just and true according to the last of his knowledge. John Page Sworn to and subscribed before me this 15th day of June Geo (M orW Hubick?) Probate Judge ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 22:51:17, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: DELAWARE COUNTY - PART 8 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF OHIO By Henry Howe LL.D., 1898 DELAWARE COUNTY PART 8 And Rosecrans was of good cheer, and immediately devised the plans for reopening communications along the line of the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad, plans which others afterwards executed; for the clear-sighted Lincoln yielded to some sinister influence; and the brilliant leader of the Army of the Cumberland, after a campaign which in all its aspects was one of the most successful known to history, and in the very midst of the city which his valor and genius had won, found himself summarily relieved of his command! It was the one act of measureless injustice and wrong which, while not Abraham Lincoln's fault, stains the annals of his otherwise spotless career. On resigning his commission General Rosecrans went to California and became a citizen of that State. He was offered and declined the democratic nomination for governor of California in 1867. He was also offered the nomination for governor by the convention of Independent Republicans held at Marysville, and declined. In 1868 he was nominated and confirmed as United States minister to Mexico, without consultation or knowledge on his part until officially notified thereof. He accepted this appointment on condition that he should be allowed carte-blanche to represent the good will of the American republic towards Mexico. In 1869 he returned to California and resumed the practice of his profession, namely, that of civil and mining engineering. It should be stated, however, that during his residence in Mexico he became thoroughly convinced that the mutual prosperity of Mexico and the United States would be promoted by the progress of Mexico under her own autonomy, and, acting in accordance with his carte-blanche, he urged the Mexican cabinet and other leaders to further and foster the construction of railroads. His efforts in this direction met with such success that the initiative period of Mexican development in this regard dates from the time these earnest efforts on his part. In 1869 he was also offered and declined the Democratic nomination for Governor of Ohio. In 1870 he memorialized Congress, urging the encouragement of commerce, with Mexico. In 1872-3, at the instance of influential people in this country, and on the invitation of the president of Mexico, he supervised the legislation in favor of railroad construction among the various States of that republic, the legislatures of seventeen Mexican States passed unanimously resolutions urging the government to take favorable legislative action for encouraging the construction of railroads in Mexico. In six other States, whose legislatures were not in session, the governors sent, officially, strong messages to the general government in favor of the fostering of such enterprises. Thus, practically, in twenty-three States favorable legislation was enacted asking the government to encourage railroad construction. In 1881 he was urged by the workingmen of California to allow his name to be used by the Democratic party as a candidate for the Forty-eighth Congress, and on his consent thereto was nominated and elected. He was re-elected to the Forty-ninth Congress. During each of his congressional terms he was assigned, as representative, to important, legislative and political duties. In June, 1885, he was appointed by President Cleveland to the position of Register of the United States Treasury, the duties of which office he is now performing with characteristic thoroughness and efficiency. Thus his career has been as useful and honorable in peace as it was patriotic and glorious in war. To the foregoing sketch of Mr. Furay we add a paragraph. Nearly a quarter of a century elapsed after the removal of Rosecrans when, at the reunion of the veterans of the Army of the Cumberland, at Washington, in May, 1887, he broke the long silence, unsealed his lips, and spoke of that event which at the time occasioned great indignation and sorrow throughout Ohio. His splendid services as a soldier, his absorbing enthusiasm and loyalty to the Union, his fiery denunciation of those who plotted a surrender to the treason, the entire spirit and elan of the man had given untold comfort to multitudes in the early years of the rebellion, an era of indescribable anguish and heart-sinking anxieties. It was a most pathetic scene when he came upon the platform, and old man, sixty-eight years of age, and told his surviving comrades of the bloody fields how his removal took place. It is thus related by Frank G. Carpenter, the interesting Ohio correspondent, who was present: "It was at night," said Rosecrans, "that I received the order, and I sent for Gen. Thomas. He came alone to the tent and took his seat. I handed him the letter. He read it, and as he did so his breast began to swell and he turned pale. He did not want to accept the command, but we agreed on consideration that he must do so, and I told him that I could not bear to meet my troops afterward. 'I want to leave, ' said I, 'before the announcement is made, and I will start in the early morning.' I packed up that night and the next morning about 7 o'clock I rode away through the fog which then hung over the camp. The best relations prevailed between Gen. Thomas and myself, and as to the statement that he considered himself my superior and obeyed orders only from a sense of duty, I assure you it was not so." As Rosecrans bowed to the audience and stepped back from the platform there was not a man present who did not feel sorry for him, and he was so much affected himself that his voice trembled as he uttered his closing words. He talked in a low tone and his accents were almost pleading. SUNBURY, on Walnut creek and the C. Mt. V. & D. R.R., has 1 Baptist and 1 Methodist church; 1 bank; Farmers', O.H. Kimball, president, Emery J. Smith, cashier; 1 newspaper: The Sunbury Monitor, Sprague & Robinson, publishers; and had, in 1880, 340 inhabitants. School census 1886, 192; W.W. Long, superintendent. Here are extensive blue-limestone quarries, supplying the finest quality of building stone; and the new process rolling mill at this place is described as "the pride of the county." ASHLEY, on the C.C.C. & I.R.R., has churches: 1 Presbyterian, 1 Methodist, 1 Baptist, 1 Friends; 1 newspaper: The Ashley Times, C.B. Benedict, publisher; 1 bank: Ashley, Sperry & Wormstaff; 2 regalia and emblems factories, a roller flouring mill, and is noted as a shipping-point for live-stock. In 1880 it had 483 inhabitants. The village of GALENA, on the C. Mt. V. & D. R.R., two miles south of Sunbury, had, in 1880, 50 inhabitants. School census 1886, 15; I.C. Guinther, principal. OSTRANDER, in 1880, had 269 inhabitants. ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 06:35:06 EDT From: Ilikmyboat@aol.com Subject: Will: McCann, 1856, Clermont Co. Will of Daniel McCann Pleas heard before the Probate Court within and for the court of Clermont and state of Ohio on the 27th day of September AD 1856. In the matter of Daniel McCanns will be it remembered that on the day and year of ? there was made upon the journals of said court in said matter the following entry to wit. This day the last will and testament of Daniel McCann late of Clermont County Ohio deceased was produced in court by Joanna McCann the executrix ? said will ? and Benj. Everson and A.E. Miley, two of the subscribing witnesses to said will appeared and in open court on oath testified to the due execution of said will which testimony was reduced to writing and by these repectively subscribed and ? with said will and it appearing to the court by said testimony that said will was duly attested and executed and that the said testator at the time of executing the same was of full age and of sound mind and memory and not under any re?. It is ordered by the court that said will and testemony be recorded. Whereupon Jona McCann the exeutrix ? said will ? appeared in court and signified her acceptance of the ? of executing said will, and it appearing to the court that said Joanna McCann is the said Joanna McCann as the sole legatee of said testator and that the debts of said estate amount to but a few dollars, it is ordered that letters of testament? Be issued to her on her? In the sum of one hundred dollars with Benuj. Everton and W. E. Miley as surities ?ed according to ? which is ? and ? issued accordingly. In the nature of the Benevolent Father of all I Daniel McCann of the county of Clermont and State of Ohio being of sound mind and memory and being desirous of arranging my ? affairs while I have capacity to do so, do make and publish this my last will and testiment in manner and form following ? First, I will and bequesth to my beloved wife Joannah McCann all my state and property both real and personal of which I may die possessed to have and to hold the same for her own enclusive use and benefits forever. She to pay all my just debts and funeral expenses. 2nd I appoint and constitute my said wife sole executrix of this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me made. Witness my hand and seal this 8th day of May AD 1856. "Declared by said testator to be his last will and testament in our presence. Benj. Everson J. H. Brooks A. E. Miley Proof to wit The state of Ohio Clermont Court Mr. Benj. Everson and A. E. Miley being duly sworn in open court this 27th day of Septemaber AD 1856, depose and say that we were present at the execution of the last will and testament of Daniel McCann hereto ? that we saw the said Testator subscribe said will and hand him publish and declare the same to be his last will and testament, and that his said testator ? ? of executing the same was of full ? and of sound mine and memory and not under any restraint and that he signed the ? as witnesses at his request in his presents and in the presents of each other. (signed) Benj. Everson A. E. Miley Sworn to and subscribed before me this 27th day of Sept. AD 1856 Geo L. ? ? -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #338 *******************************************