Wills: McClure, Melinda, Indiana Co 

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Indiana County Pennsylvania
Clerk of the Orphans Court
Will Book # 3
Page 481
No. 2572

In the name of God, I Melinda McClure of the village of Diamondville in
the township of Cherryhill County of Indiana and State of Pennsylvania
being of sound mind and memory and considering the uncertainty of this
of this frail and transitory life do therefore make ordain publish and
declare this to be my last Will and Testament that is to say, first
after all my lawful debts are paid and discharged the residue of my
Estate Real and Personal I give dispose of as follows, to wit to my son
Thomas the lot of ground lying in the village of Diamond, Cherryhill Twp
Indiana County known on plot of said village as NO 11 eleven being 59
feet in front and extending back two hundred feet, it being the Same lot
of ground Conveyed to Melinda McClure by Samuel Johnston Administrator
of John Clark deceased, And my will is that the property whereon I now
reside I give and bequeath to my five daughters namely to Emily
Intermarried with John C. Conner, and Mary, Elenor Intermarried to Wm.
George, and Catherine Jane and Florence G., these my five daughters is
to have the lot and buildings on Said lot, wherein I now reside.  My
will is that the five named children hold and possess Said lot and
maintain until my youngest daughter is Eighteen years of age, that the
named property bequeathed to my five daughters be sold and the money
arising from the Sale of the Same Shall be equally divided amongst them
Share and Share alike, if it is their wish to have it Sold, if not their
desire to have it sold the are to use and dispose of Said property as
they may see proper.  My will is that my personal property be disposed
of as follows viz: to my five named daughters at any time after my
decease share and share alike except Florence G. is to have fifty
dollars more than the four other daughters.  Likewise I make constitute
and appoint my daughter Emily B. Conner to be my Executrix of this my
last Will and Testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me made. 
In Witness whereof I have hereunto Subscribed my name and fixed my seal
the Nineteenth day of October in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight
Hundred and Sixty Nine.
Melinda McClure


The above written instrument was suscribed by the said Melinda McClure
in our presence and acknowledged by her to each of us and She at the
same time published and declared the above instrument So Subscribed to
be her Last Will and Testament and we at testators request and in her
presence have signed our names as Witness hereto and written opposite
our names our respective places of residence.
Alex McDonald Diamond ,PA
John Oneal Diamond, PA
Frederick Gaston Diamond, PA


Indiana County, SS
Be it Remembered that on the 7th day of January A.D., 1870 before me,
Wm. R. Black, Register for the Probate of Wills and granting Letters of
Administration in and for said County, was duly proved, and therefore
approved the foregoing instrument of writing as and for the last will
and testament of Melinda McClure, late of Diamondville Cherry hill
township, said County, deceased by the oaths of Jno Oneal, Alex McDonald
& Frederick Gaston, the Subscribing witness thereto.  Same Day letters
Testamentary issued to Mrs. Emily Conner, Executrix, in said will
named.  She having first been duly sworn according to law.

Wm. R. Black, Register