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I <br />I <br />it <br />77 <br />estate or the deceased, which have not been filed or allowed, if any there be, are foreter barred <br />and injoined from setting up or asserting any such claim against said estate; that the deceased <br />died intestate on September 18, 1934, a resident of said Hall County, seized and possessed in fee <br />simple of the real estate hereinbefore described and that the deceased left surviving him as his <br />heirs at law and his only heirs at law and next of kin, his widow, Mary E.Jewett, and their two <br />sons, John R.Jewett and Ralph B.Jewett and that said real estate hereinbefore described passed <br />and descended under the statutes of descent of Nebraska, in fee simple as follows: an undivided <br />one third interest each as tenants in common to said Mary E.Jewett, John R.Jewett and Ralph B. <br />Jewett, subject to a homestead or life estate of said Mary E.Jewett in said Lots One (1) and Two <br />(2) in Block Five (5), in First Addition to the town of Wood River, in Hall County, Nebraska <br />and the same is so awarded to them; that said estate and the succession thereto is not subject <br />to any inheritance tax under the laws of Nebraska or to any estate tax under the laws of the United <br />States; that said estate has been fully administered and the administratrix is discharged of her <br />trust and her bond released. <br />Paul N. Kirk <br />County Judge <br />IN THE COUNTY COURT OF HALL COUNIY,NEBRASKA <br />CERTIFICA ^1E. <br />STATE OF NEBRASKA ) <br />HALL COUNTY )ss' I. Paul N.Kirk, County Judge of Hall County, Nebraska, do hereby <br />certify that I have compared the foregoing copy of Final Decree entered IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE <br />OF JOHN R.JEWETT, DECEASED, with the original record thereof, now remaining in said Court, that the <br />same is a correct transcript thereof, and of the whole of such original record; that said Court <br />is a Court of Record having a seal, which seal is hereto attached; that said Court has no Clerk <br />authorized to sign certificates in his own name, and that I am the legal custodian of said Seal <br />and of the Records of said Court, and that the foregoing attestation is in due form of law. <br />IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the County Court, at <br />Grand Island, this 4th day of February, 1936. <br />Paul N. Kirk <br />(SEAL') County Judge <br />Filed for record this 12° day of December, 1941, at 11:55 o'clock A.M. <br />egister of eeds <br />C- 0 -0--n- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- n- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0-0-0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0- 0 -0 -0- <br />WILL AND DECREE W <br />LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT <br />OF <br />JOHN MYLER DUNCAN <br />I, JOHN MYLER DUNCAN, of Wood River, Nebraska, being of sound mind, memory, and understanding, <br />considering the certainty of death, do hereby make and publish this, my last Will and Testament, <br />hereby revoking and annulling all Wills by me heretofore made, in any manner or form whatsoever, <br />and set forth my wishes as follows'. <br />1. <br />I direct that all my just debts, including funeral expenses, be paid by my executrix. <br />11 <br />I hereby direct my executrix to use the burial plot, located in Wood River, Nebraska, owned by my <br />family, for my interment. <br />111. <br />My real property, which consists of a farm located in Section Nine (9), Township Ten (10),Ra.nge <br />Eleven (11),West of the 6th P.M., consisting of one hundred and twenty acres (120), more specifi- <br />cally described as the South half (S2) of the Northeast quarter (NEB) and the Northeast quarter <br />(NEB) of the Southeast Quarter (SEJ), I hereby reserve unto my loving wife, Ida Louisa Duncan, <br />granting to her a life estate in the same. Then, at the culmination of the life estate, I desire <br />to bequeath the land as follows: The South half (S2) of the Northeast quarter (NEJ), consisting <br />of eighty (80) acres, of Section nine (9),Township Ten (10), Range Eleven (11),West of the 6th P.M., <br />