NEWS: Bedford Gazette, Bedford, Pennsylvania December 8, 1899, Wills Recently Filed (Frederick ZIMMERS, R. Sewell WRIGHT and Mrs. Nancy WIGFIELD)

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Bedford Gazette; Bedford, Pennsylvania December 8, 1899
Wills Recently Filed.

Frederick Zimmers, late of Bedford township, bequeaths to his daughter, Emma 
Zimmers, two cows and a heifer.  He gives the rest of his personal property to 
his wife.  Should she remarry, or upon her death, decedent's personal property 
is to be sold and the proceeds equally divided among his three children--
Watson, Bruce and Emma.  To his son, Watson, he gives the mansion tract and 28 
acres of mountain land.  Watson is to give his mother one-fourth of the grain 
and hay raised on the farm and to pay his sister, Emma, $1,500.  To his son, 
Bruce, testator, gives the farm upon which he resided at the time of his death 
and 31 acres of mountain land known as the "Samuel Tract."  Bruce is to give 
his mother one-fourth of he grain and hay produced on the farm and pay his 
sister, Emma, $500 and decedent's nephew, David Zimmers, $300.  David Zimmers 
and Bruce Zimmers are named as executors.

R. Sewell Wright, late of Bedford borough, bequeaths all of his real estate 
and personal property to his wife.  Frank E. Colvin, Esq., is named as 
executor.

Mrs. Nancy Wigfield, late of Mann township, gives one dollar to each of her 
children, with the exception of her youngest, James E. to whom she bequeaths 
the balance of her personal property and real estate. James E. Wigfield is 
named as executor.

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