WILL: David HOOVER, 1882, Shirley Township, Huntingdon County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Sana M. McGhee Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ________________________________________________ Last Will & _ I David Hoover of Shirley Township Huntingdon County of Penna. being of sound mind, memory, and understanding DAVID HOOVER do make and publish this my last will and testament hereby revoking and making void all former wills by me made and first I direct that all funeral expenses and just debts be paid. Item _ I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Susannah Hoover the one third of all my personal and real estate. This is in place of what she would be entitled to under the widows three hundred dollar act and also her interest in the widows dow__ which she would have been entitled to under the intestate laws of Pennsylvania Item I give and bequeath to James H. Hoover a Grand son twenty dollars - also to Addie Yountzen A Grand Daughter twenty dollars. Item I also give and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth _____ __ married to William Drake Twenty five Dollars and the Cow this in view of the trouble she had in taking care of me in my old age. Item the balance of my estate is to be paid to my daughter Elizabeth intermarried with Wilson Drake and my daughter Sarah intermarried to David M ___istry equally that is share and share alike - - Item as soon as convenient - after my decease I order and direct that my executor hereinafter named make sale of my personal property and real estate to be converted into money and to be paid out to my heirs as above specified. And lastly, I appoint George Garver to be my sole executor to sell and dispose of all my real estate and personal property, at either public or private sale for the best price or prices that can be obtained and I do hereby authorize my said executors, and empower him to sell and dispose of said real estate and to duly execute acknowledge, and perfected to grant convey and assure the same to the purchaser or purchasers thereof in fee simple and to sign seal all such deeds of conveyances as may be necessary to perfect said titles. In witness I have hereunto set my hand and seal the 16th day of February A. D. 1882 Witness present Wm. B. Leas David Hoover (seal) J. L. Enyeart Huntingdon County SS. Before me Register for the Probate of Wills and granting Letters of Administration in and for said County personall appeared George Garver who being duly sworn doth depose and say that David Hoover late of Shirley Township died on or about the 11th day of March 1882 at about 4 oclock P.M. and further saith not. Sworn and Subscribed this 18th day of March A.D. 1882 before George Garver J. D. Kuntzelman Register County of Huntingdon This eighteenth day of March A. D. 1882 before me J. D. Kuntzelman Register for the Probate of Wills and granting Letters of Administration in and for the County of Huntingdon personally came John L. Enyeart - one of the subscribing witnesses to the above will and being duly sworn according to law did depose and say that he was present and saw and heard David Hoover the testator sign seal publish pronounce and declare the foregoing instrument of writing as and for his testament and last will and that at the time of so doing he the said testator was of perfect and sound mind memory and understanding to the best of their knowledge observation and belief. Sworn to and subscribed before me J. L. Enyeart J. D. Kuntzelman Register Letters Testamentary on the estate On this 18th day of March A.D. 1882 of letters Testamentary in common form David Hoover of Shirley Twp decd. were granted to George Garver on the estate of David Hoover late of Shirley Twp. decd. J. D. Kuntzelman Register