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v <br />0.9H <br />MIMUNNI ME G "FE 11111 :11111 !111 1 !11111 111 <br />�ILZ. <br />I A.Sidney Downs of the City of Chicago and State of Illinois do hereby Publish and declare <br />this to be my lust.Will wnd Testament. <br />Firstly. I give and bequeath to my &ku.ghter Emma A. intermarried with Charles A.11ieilig the <br />East half of Section Numbered Thirteen (13) Township Twelve (12) North Range Hine (9)^ uf the <br />sixth (6) Principal Meridian situate in H Lll County State of Nebraska. <br />Secondly; I give and bequeath to m3- Soh,A.Ogden Downs <br />The rest half of Section Numbered Thirty five (35) Township Twelve (12) North Range Ten (10) <br />West of the sixth principal Meridian situate in Hall County State of Nebraska. <br />Thirdly: I give and bequeath to my Son Charles S.Downs the East half of section Numbered Thir <br />Five (35) Township Twelve (12) North of Range Ten 10 West of the sixth .'rincipal Meridian situat <br />in Hu11 County State of Xebraska. <br />Fourthly: I give and bequeath to my wife Lucy Ogden Downs u.11 the,. residue of my property of ever <br />y <br />discription dame and Nature after paying all my legal indebtedness and do hereby appoint her my aid <br />rife sole executrix with out Bond or Security. To settle my Estate and Carry out the provisions <br />hereto. <br />In Testimony <br />whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this Tenth day of December A.D. 1873 <br />A. S. Downs (Seal) <br />Signed Sealed Published and declared by the Testator to be his laat Will and Testament and at <br />his request vr-b hereby respectively subscribed our names hereto as witnesses <br />Charles C.Abell <br />Witnesses <br />Benjamin F.Guyton <br />State of Illinois ). <br />s s '-R 0 B A TZ COT 1T OF COOK C Ot1TTTY . <br />County of Cook. ) <br />henry F. Chace <br />,Tune Term A. D. 1883 The Tenth day of ?uly A. D. 1883 Court being in Session Present Hon...Toshua C. <br />Knickerbocker Nudge of the Probate Court of Cook County. <br />Seth F. Hanchett, Sheriff of Cook County <br />Attest Thomas W. Senrott- Clerk of the Proba <br />Court of Cook County. <br />IN T.? F HATTFR OF T7' LA ^T WILL ANT) TESTA =TT OF <br />A.Sidney Downs Deceased <br />PROOF OF !'SILL AND ISSUE OF LETTERS TESTAMENTARY. <br />This day carne Lucy 0. Downs of the County of Cook in the state of Illinois and produced in <br />Court an Instrument in writing purporting to be the last Will and Testament of a. Sidney Downs <br />and presented and filed therewith her Petition duly verified praying that said Will might be <br />admitted to Probate and that letters Testamentary Thereon might be issued to her the Executrix <br />named therein. And it appearing to the Court from said i'etition that A.Sidney Downs of Chicago <br />said County departed this life on the thirteenth day of June 1883 le4vi.ng said writing as and fir <br />his last Will and Testament u.nd thereupon Charles C.Abell and Benjwnin F.Guyton the subscribing <br />witnesses to said Will appeared z.nd in open Court on oath testified that they were present at <br />execution of 8�62d Will and saw, the said A. Sidney Downs sign said Will in their presence and <br />heard him declare the same to be his lust Will and Testament That they subscribed their names <br />thereto us witnesses-in the presence ofwnd at the request of said Testator and in the pre- <br />sence of each other end that they believed the said Testator was of sound mind and memory and <br />of lawful age at the time of signing said Will,which testimony %vas reduced to writing by a bhoki <br />I <br />i <br />hand Reporter and Tr"nscript thereof filed with said Instrument the Signatures of the said <br />witnApses of the said witnesses thereto being waived by the Court and it appearing to the Courtl <br />from said Testimony that said Will was duly Executed and attested according to Law and that thel <br />h <br />D <br />1 <br />II <br />1 <br />