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I am transcribing will for the Jennings County, Indiana USGENWEB site and here is one I just did it was very difficult to read.
28. Lewis Umstead-will written September 26, 1847-I Lewis Umstead well advanced in years and knowing the certainty of death and desiring to make a disposition of the property which the lord has been pleased to help me with I direct that after my death that my boddy be deposited in its mother earth in a manner which will be in conformity with my estate. Second I direct that all my just debts be paid as soon as the money can be procured of my estate. Third I give and bequeath unto Agneys? my wife all and everything I have except one colt to Jerry also one colt to Amy Benett and one to Mary Johnson if the mare should live so as to raise one for Ann and Mary then they are to have ten dollars each of money or property as they may select after the death of my wife, and after her death the whole of the sum remaining property is Jerrys. If my wife should outlive my son Jerry then I will that after her death Ann and Mary have my property equally divided and I forth direct my wife Agneys? my Executrix and that she need not inventory anything but that she is to have full control over all the property real and personal during her lifetime. Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of Dennis Kersey and Jonathan Thurman this twenty sixth day of Sept. in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty seven.
Witnesses
Dennis E. Carsey
Jonathan Thurnan
Will Proven & Probate March 7, 1848-William P. Shields, Clerk of the Court
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