Hood County, Texas - Wills: Will of Mrs. Maggie Umphress
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APPLICATION TO PROVE THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF MRS. MAGGIE UMPHRESS

The State of Texas} In Probate Court Hood County, Texas

County of Hood } March Term 1915

To the Hon. W.L. Dean, Judge of said Court

Now comes Ras Umphress, a citizen of Hood County, Texas, of lawful age and
makes his application to prove the last will and testament of
Mrs. Maggie Umphress, his wife, and in support of said application he shows
the court as follows:

1. That the said Mrs. Maggie Umphress, departed this life in Hood County,
Texas, on or about the eighth day of October A.D. 1914.

11. He further shows to the court that the said Mrs. Maggie Umphress was at
the time of her death and has been for many years a resident
citizen of Hood County, Texas, and that your applicant is also of same
County and said State. and that the said Mrs. Maggie Umphress, at the
time of death, was possessed of an estate consisting of lands and personal
property which is also located and situatedin said Hood County,
Texas, and therefore, he says that this County has Jurisdiction of all
matters invalid in and s(cut off by edge of paper) up by his application.

111. That the said Mrs. Maggie Umphress at the time of her death was
possessed of an un-divided one half interest in an to about 1340 acres of
land in Hood County, Texas, which half interest is of the probable value of
$2500.00 and that she was also possessed of certain personal
property of the probable value of $1200.00, the same being an undivided
one-half interest in and to the personal property owned by the said
Mrs. Maggie Umphress and your applicant at the time of her death. That the
said personal property consists of horses, mules, cattle, other
livestock, household and kitchen furniture, farming implements, etc.

IV. That at the time of her death the said Mrs. Maggie Umphress left a
written will which is in due form properly executed and bears date
October 30, 1908, that the same is in due form and properly witnessed in
the same manner required by law and which said will is filed with the
Clerk of this Court at the time of the filing of this application (vol. J.
Probate, pg. 29)

V. The further shows to the court that in and by the terms of said will the
said Mrs. Maggie Umphress made, Constituted and appointed your
applicant the Independant Executor thereof without requiring bond and
without the action of the Probate or other Court except to Probate the
said will and to make and file an inventory of the property belonging to
said estate in terms of the law, that your applicant whose name is Ras
Umphress, as herein before stated resides in Hood County, Texas.

VI. Your applicant further shows that he is of lawful age and is not in any
manner disqualified under the law from accepting Letters
Testamentary upon the estate of the said Mrs. Maggie Umphress.

Wherefore your applicant prays that the necessary notice given as required
by law, that upon a hearing of this application the Court will hear
proof in open Court relative to the execution of said will, the kind,
location and quantity of property belonging to the estate of the said Mrs.
Maggie Umphress, the value thereof and as to such other matters as may be
pertinent to any issue in this proceeding, for an order admitted
said will to probate, ordering the said will to be recorded as the last
will and testament of the said Mrs. Maggie Umphress, for the appointment
of appraisal as required by law and for such other orders and decrees as
may be necessary under the law, for letters Testamentary, and that he
be appointed Executor of said estate without bond and without the action of
the Probate or other court, except to make or file an inventory of
the property belonging to said estate as in duty bound he will ever pray.

Estes & Estes

Atty for applicant

Filed Feby 1 1915

Z.C. Morrison, County Clerk, Hood County, Texas