WILL: Elias N. MOHR, 1864, Union Township, Berks County, PA
  
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  Source: Register Of Wills, Reading
  Written: June 1, 1864
  Recorded: August 27, 1864
  
  The following is copied from a hand-written will witnessed by Abrm. H 
  Vanderslice and John W Hartranft: (on file at Berks Co Register of Wills in 
  Reading,PA) dated 6/1/1864:
  
  On the 27th day of August 1864 appeared Abrm H Vanderslice and John W 
  Hartranft, the subscribing witnesses to the within will and being duly sworn, 
  did depose and say that they were present and did see and hear Elias N MOHR, 
  the testator, sign, seal, publish and declare the said instrument of writing 
  to be his last will and testament and that at the time of the doing thereof, 
  he was of sound mind, memory and understanding to the best of their knowledge, 
  observation and belief. M. L. Thirwechter, Register of Wills.
  
  I, Elias N MOHR, of Union Township, Berks County and State of Pennsylvania, 
  gentleman, being of sound mind memory and understanding but considering the 
  uncertainty of this transitory life, do publish this my Last Will and 
  Testament in manner following to wit:
  1. It is my will and I do order that all my just debts and funeral expenses be 
  duly satisfied as soon as conveniently can be after my decease.
  2. I give and bequeath unto my dear wife Mary during her natural life, the 
  house at present occupied by John MILLER, along side the shop and the garden 
  attached to the same, and one third of the rent of the property whereon I at 
  present reside and if that should not be sufficient, my hereinafter named 
  executors are to give her sufficient to keep her, and further, I give her as 
  much of my house and kitchen furniture as she shall want for her own use and 
  two cords of firewood or as much as she shall want for her own use, yearly, 
  and every year during her natural life, six bushels of cooking potatoes yearly 
  and apples and cider as much as she shall want for her own use delivered by my 
  hereinafter named Executor yearly and every year during the natural life of my 
  said wife are to be in lieu of her dower and the three hundred dollar law.
  3. It is my will and I order that none of my real estate is to be sold until 
  the decease of my wife, and my hereinafter named executors or the survivors of 
  them are to rent out the said property during the natural life of my said 
  wife, they paying yearly first the above legacies to my said wife and the 
  balance to be divided as hereinafter named, and after the decease of my said 
  wife it is my will and I do order that my hereinafter named Executors or the 
  survivors of them, shall as soon as conveniently can be, sell, at public sale, 
  all my real estate wheresoever the same may be situated in the county of Berks 
  or elsewhere and for that purpose I do hereby authorize and empower my said 
  executors or the survivors of them, to sign, seal, execute and acknowledge all 
  such deeds of conveyance as may be necessary for the granting and assuring the 
  same to the purchases thereof in fee simple.
  4. And as touching the rest, residue and remainder of my estate, real and 
  personal, whatsoever the same may be in the county of Berks or elsewhere not 
  herein before disposed, I do give and bequeath the same to my eight children 
  to wit: Hannah, Levi, Harriet, Charlotte, Mahlon, Mary, Daniel and Esther to 
  be equally divided between them share and share alike, and to their heirs and 
  assigns forever.
  5. It is my will and I do order that my Executors shall get tombs for me and 
  my wife to be paid for out of the proceeds of my estate;
  6. And lastly, I nominate constitute and appoint my two sons, Daniel and Levi, 
  executors of this my last will and testament reposing confidence in them to 
  perform the trust committed to them by hereby revoking all other wills by me 
  heretofore made and declaring this and no other to be my last will and 
  testament.
  In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this first day of June 
  AD 1864
  signed sealed and declared by the said testator to be his last will and 
  testament in presence of Abm H Vanderslice and John W Hartranft,
  Elias N MOHR (signature).
  
  
  Contributor's Note:
  Elias N MOHR (11/9/1793-8/11/1864) married Mary Bertolet KERST (3/2/1794-
  9/30/1875), dau of Jacob KERST and Esther Yoder BERTOLET.  They are buried in 
  St John's UCC Cemetery, Gibraltar.
  Elias and Mary are my gr3grandparents thru their daughter Charlotte K. MOHR.
  
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