Will of Eliza Cook Hayes of Sanborn Co. This will transcribed and submitted by Sheryl E. Kuhn. This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the SDGENWEB Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/sd/sdfiles.htm I Eliza Hayes, of Afton Township in the County Sanborn in the Territory of Dakota do make this my last will and testament as follow, First I give devise and bequeath to my daughter Henrietta Hayes now Mrs. Henrietta Hansen the Thirteen and one third acres together with all the improvements thereon along the south line of the Forty acres of land now owned by me in the Township of Stockland in the County of Iroquois in the State of Illinois, the above described real estate being the south Thirteen and one third acres of said Forty acres of land, Second, I give devise and bequeath to my daughter Cornelia Jane Hayes now Mrs. Cornelia Jane Shaffer the Thirteen and one third acres of land adjoining the thirteen and one third acres willed devised and bequeathed to my daughter Henrietta Hayes now Henrietta Hansen on the north, Third, I give devise and bequeath to my daughter Mary Emma Hayes now Mrs. Mary Emma Crawford all the balance of said Forty acres tract on land being Thirteen and one third acres of land. Said Forty acres of land as above described and devised being the only real estate owned by me in the Twp County and State as aforesaid. In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal this Fifteenth day of December 1886. Eliza Hayes The foregoing instrument was on the day of the date thereof signed, sealed, published and declared by the said testatrix to be her last will and testament in our presence, who at her request in her presence and in the presence of each other have signed our names as witnesses. William Rause of Carthage, D.T. D.D. Martin of Carthage, D.T. This will was filed Jan. 8, 1887