WILL: Bernard W. WILLS, 1908, Loretto, Cambria County, PA
Surnames: WILLS, MORAN, HOGUE, WHITE, TIBBOTT

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Cambria County Will Book 10, page 276

Transcribed verbatim from FHL Film No. 1316244

Last Will and Testament of Bernard W. WILLS 

Loretto, Cambria Co. Pa, Sept. 26, A.D. 1908

I will and bequeath all my real and personal property to my beloved wife Myrtle 
M. White Wills for her use and that of my children as long as she remains my 
widow and if she marries then my real estate becomes the sole property of my 
children if living and if dead at the time of marriage or after her marriage 
then she is to become the sole owner of same to dispose of same as she pleases. 
My Bank Stock in the First National Bank of Lilly, Pa. is not to be sold, but 
the earnings or dividends of same to be used by my wife and children for there 
benefit. And if she marries then she ceases to receive any Benefits of Dividents 
of said National Bank Stock same to go for the sole Benefit of my children and 
when the youngest child of mine from our union becomes of age then the stock may 
be sold by mutual consent of all at full book value as per Books of Bank.

All my just debts are to be paid out of my life Insurance which I have in The 
Woodman of the World, and the ancient Order of Hibernians at the Osceola Mills 
Division and the Balance for the use of my wife Myrtle M. White Wills and my 
children. She and my children to make there home with my Father & Mother John F. 
and Henrietta M. Wills and continue the Mercantile Business Just the same as 
during my life only on a cash basis. No credit to be extended to any person or 
persons or corporations and if my death should result from accident while I am a 
member of the United Commercial Travelers, & authorise my wife to pay to my 
Father $1,000 dollars, and my Mother $1,000 dollars cash if living and the 
balance to be for her use and the children of our union. This I desire to be my 
last will and testament given under my Hand and Seal This 26th Day of September 
in the year 1908 At Loretto Pa. Cambria Co.

I appoint my wife Myrtle M. Wills, and my Father John F. Wills as my Executors.

Bernard W. Wills
Witness
John Moran
George Hogue

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 John Moran and George 
Hogue the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing Will and Testament, who being 
duly sworn according to law, do depose and say that they were present and saw 
and heard Bernard W. Wills, 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 their knowledge, observation and belief.

Sworn and subscribed this 20th day of June, A. D. 1916. 

John Moran
Sherman Tibbott Register Geo. W. Hogue

Registered June 20th A.D. 1916, and Letters Testamentary issued to Myrtle M. 
Wills and John F. Wills.

Sherman Tibbott
Register