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Presence of each other, have hereunto signed our names as witnesses.
<br />Cora Vt. Davis.
<br />of Oak Park, Ill.
<br />Burleigh A. Dunlap.
<br />--------------- of Nayzj;ood, Ill,
<br />Will proved and admitted to record in open court this 23rd day of July, A.D. 1907.
<br />CHARLES S. CUT.TING. PROBATE JUDGE.
<br />State of Illinois )
<br />}ss
<br />County of Cook )
<br />In the Probate Court of Cook County.
<br />Proved and admitted to record in open court this 23 day of July, A.D 1907.
<br />GUY GUERIrSEY, Clerk.
<br />Filed, Jun. 12, 1907.
<br />Guy Guernsey, Clerk.
<br />U11ITED STATES OF A11ERICA.
<br />State of Illinois,
<br />Be PROBATE COURT OF COCK COUNTY.
<br />County of Cook, )
<br />July Term, A.D. 19071 the 23rd day of July, A.D. 1907, Court being in
<br />Session. Present, Hon, Charles S. Cutting , Judge of the Probate Court of Cook County,
<br />Caok, in the State of Illinai, and prodtced in court an instrument in writing, purr,orting to
<br />be the Last Will and Testament of Irving A. Porter, deceased, which instrument and his petition,
<br />duly verified, praying that said will might be admitted to probate, and that Letters Testamentary
<br />Christopher Strassheim, Sheriff
<br />of Cool,- County.
<br />Attest:
<br />Guy Guernsey, Clerk of the Probate Court of Cook County.
<br />given 4s by Statute required; And it appearing to the Court from said petition that Irving A.
<br />In the :Matter
<br />of the Last Wil3and Testament)
<br />Proof of Will and Issue of Letters Testamentary.
<br />said writing asand for his Last Will and Testament; and thereupon Cora Td. Davis and Rurleigh A.
<br />of Irving A.
<br />Porter, Deceased. )
<br />they were present at the execution of said Will, and saw the said Irving A. Porter sign said
<br />Will in their presence, and heard him declare the same to be his Last Will�and Testament; that
<br />This day came Charles 24. Porter of the County of
<br />they subscribed their names thereto as witnesses, in the presence of, and at the request of said
<br />testator and in the presence of each other, and that they believed the said testator was of
<br />sound mind and memory, and of lawful age at the time of signing said Will; which testimony was
<br />Caok, in the State of Illinai, and prodtced in court an instrument in writing, purr,orting to
<br />be the Last Will and Testament of Irving A. Porter, deceased, which instrument and his petition,
<br />duly verified, praying that said will might be admitted to probate, and that Letters Testamentary
<br />thereon might be issued to him the Executor named therein were heretofore filed in this court,
<br />the hearing upon which was continued to this day, and it appears that notice of such hearing was
<br />given 4s by Statute required; And it appearing to the Court from said petition that Irving A.
<br />Porter of river Forest in said County, departed this life on the 4th day of June, 1907, leaving
<br />said writing asand for his Last Will and Testament; and thereupon Cora Td. Davis and Rurleigh A.
<br />Dunlap the subscribing; witnesses to said Will appeared, and in open Court, on oath, testified that
<br />they were present at the execution of said Will, and saw the said Irving A. Porter sign said
<br />Will in their presence, and heard him declare the same to be his Last Will�and Testament; that
<br />they subscribed their names thereto as witnesses, in the presence of, and at the request of said
<br />testator and in the presence of each other, and that they believed the said testator was of
<br />sound mind and memory, and of lawful age at the time of signing said Will; which testimony was
<br />reduced to writing by a shorthand reporter, and a transcript thereof filed with said instrument,
<br />the signatures of the said witnesses \thereto being waived by the Court.
<br />And it appearing to the Court from said testimony that said Will.wa.s duly executed and attested
<br />according to law, and that the said Testator was of sound mind and memory, and otherwise com-
<br />petent to make his Will at the time of signing the same; it is ordered that said Will be received
<br />and recorded as the Last Will and Testament of the said Irving A. Porter, deceased.
<br />State of Illinois )
<br />)ss
<br />County of Cook )
<br />Guy Guernsey, Clerk of the Probate Court of Cook County, in the State
<br />aforesaid, do hereby certify that the within and foregoing is a true transcript of the pro -
<br />ceedings had before said Court, in the matter of the proof of Will in the estate of Irving A.
<br />Porter, deceased.
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