Wills: John Blaney, 1879: Perry Twp, Fayette Co File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Karen souhrada@rochester.rr.com USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. Will of JOHN BLANEY, written in 1879 In the name of God Amen, I JOHN BLANEY of Perry Township, Fayette county, Pennsylvania being of sound mind and memory, Thanks be to God for the same, do this day make and publish this my last will hereby revoking any and all other wills made by me made heretofore. Item: I will and desire as soon after my decease as convenient, that my executor pay funeral expenses & all just debts owing by me at said date. Item: I will desire and bequeath unto my beloved wife and my two single daughters the income of all the Home Farms that I now live upon, as well as that portion of land lying north of the publick (sic) road leading from McDonald's Mill now Blairs, to the Hunter School House on which SAMUEL WASHABAUGH now lives upon, to be equally divided between the three so long as they remain single and if either of my two single daughters should marry, the married one to have all the land lying south of the road leading Mc Donald's Mill (now Blairs) to Perryopolis, to hold and occupy with all profits in her own right so long as she lives & then to go to her children lawful issue of her body, and in case she leave no issue, then the income of said land go to the support of the remaining single daughter. If said last single daughter should marry and leave issue at her death said issue to inherit all my land north of the road leading from the aforesaid mill to Perryopolis. My will is that on the decease of my wife, and two daughters (single) leaving no issue, then the respective shares of land herein devised, shall be sold at publick (sic) sale by my executor, & make deed or deeds as the case may be & pay the money in equal shares to my three grandsons, JOHN C. BLANEY, ROBERT BLANEY, and JOHN C. CAMPBELL. My will is that no timber on the farm I now live on be destroyed only so much as is necessary for repairs of said farm and fuel. Item: I will to my two daughters namely MARY J. BLANEY & MARGARET BLANEY, the clear-cut sum of eight hundred dollars each within to (? two) years after my decease, also all .....(illegible) of property in and about the house and out houses, occupyed (sic) by me the said property to be equally divided between my wife & the aforesaid two single daughters, as well as my buggy and harness, two horses, two cows, one two-horse wagon, two sets of wagon harness, one plow, one harrow. The understand is that this does not include money or notes I may have in my house at my decease, also I will that said wife and single daughters have provisions sufficient of all descriptions for themselves & beasts for the space of six months next following my decease if so much is in my possession at said time. Item: I will devise and bequeath unto my son WILLIAM BLANEY the farm on which he now resides adjoining lands of FREEMAN COOPER, SAMUEL CARR & MRS. SHEELHEY (?) containing sixty acres more or less to have and to hold in his own right by paying to my widow a dower of thirty-five dollars per year so long as she remains my widow, also I will to my son WILLIAM my four horse wagon. Item: I will devise and bequeath unto my daughter SARAH CAMPBELL, my undivided half of farm situate in Franklin Township bought of MARY & DAVID SNIDER by JOSEPH CAMPBELL & myself, to hold in her own right, by her the said SARAH paying my widow the clear net sum of twenty dollars yearly so long as said widow lives, also if said SARAH at any time wished to sell said interest in said land or should died, my will is that my grandson J. C. CAMPBELL, or any other issue of her body shall inherit that interest in. Item: My will is if there be any overplus after all the devises have been complyed the same be equally divided between my four children. Item: I hereby nominate & appoint my son WILLIAM BLANEY, and my brother-in-law WILLIAM PARKHILL of Franklin Township, Fayette co., PA, as my executors to execute this my last will and testament. In Witness thereof I do this day the 18th day of December A. D. 1879 subscribe my name & affix my seal in presence of Attest: PIERSON COPE JOHN F. MARTIN THOMAS WATSON ** Registered and compared for probate, on 21st day of February A. D. 1887 by Charles D. Conner, Register