WILL: Richard FREE, 1916, Cambria County, PA Surnames: FREE, PLUMMER, SWEENEY, WILL, WILLS, TIBBOTT Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Tom Wills twills @ charter .net Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cambria/ _______________________________________________ Cambria County Will Book 10, page 157 Transcribed verbatim from FHL Film No. 1316244. Last Will and Testament of Richard Free In the Name of God Amen I Richard Free of the County of Cambria and State of Pennsylvania do make and Publish this my Last Will and Testament Hereby revoking and Making void all former wills by me made. And 1st as to such Estate as it has as it hath Pleased God to Intrust Me with I dispose of the same as follows. I give and bequeath to My beloved wife Magy M. Free all my affects both Real and Personal to have and to hold the same forever. And I do hereby appoint my wife Maggy Free my Executrix in this my last will and Testament. Signed, sealed, published and declared by the above named Richard Free as and for his last will and Testament in the Presence of us who have hereunto subscribed our names at his request as witness thereto in the presence of the Testator and of each other. Richard Free (seal) W. H. Plummer John Sweeney Charles Will Last Will and Testament of Richard Free State of Pennsylvania County of Cambria Before me, Sherman Tibbott, Register of the Probate of Wills and granting Letters of Administration in and for said County, personally came Charles Will one of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing Will and Testament, who being duly Sworn according to the law do depose and say that he was present and saw and heard Richard Free, the within-named testator sign, seal, publish, pronounce and declare the foregoing instrument of writing as and for his last Will and Testament, and at the time of so doing, he was of sound mind, memory, and understanding to the best of his knowledge, observation and belief. Sworn and subscribed this 4th Day of July A.D. 1916 Charles Will Sherman Tibbott Register State of Pennsylvania Cambria County This day, before me, Sherman Tibbott, Register of Wills in and for said County, personally came F. J. Wills and Charles Will, who being duly Sworn according to law, viz: That they were well acquainted with W. H. Plummer and John Sweeney late residents of Altoona, Pa, and Latrobe, Pa., who were two of the subscribing witnesses to the last will and testament of Richard Free late of said County, deceased, that they are familiar with the handwriting of W. H. Plummer and John Sweeney having frequently seen them write their own names as well as other matters; that the said W. H. Plummer and John Sweeney are now deceased; that they have carefully examined the signatures of W. H. Plummer and John Sweeney to the aforesaid last will and testament, and they verily believe the same to be in the own proper handwriting of said W. H. Plummer and John Sweeney, Sworn and subscribed before me this 4th day of February, A. D. 1916 F. J. Wills Charles Will Sherman Tibbott Register Registered February 4th A.D. 1916, and Letters Testamentary issued to M. Maggie Free. Sherman Tibbott Register