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<br />NO. 9 HALL COUNTY
<br />WILL AND DECREE
<br />LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
<br />OF
<br />SOPHIA C.BRANDT, OF BISMARCK,NORTH DAKOTA.
<br />I, SOPHIA C.BRANDT, of the City of Bismarck, County of Burleigh, State of North Dakota, being of
<br />sound mind and disposing memory, do hereby declare this my Last Will andyTestament, revoking any
<br />and all former Wills by me at any time made, and hereby devise and bequeath my real and personal
<br />holdings to my husband Frank L.Brandt, and I do constitute and apoint my son Albert R.Brandt as
<br />executor of this Will, and my son Walter J.Brandt as alternate. it is requested that neither of
<br />them, in entering upon their duties, be required to furnish bond.
<br />WITNESS my hand and seal, this first day of February, A.D. 1940.
<br />Sophia C.Brandt (Seal)
<br />ATTEST: This instrument, consisting of one page, was by the Testator Sophia C.BPandt, declared
<br />to be her Last Will and Testament, and was by her signed in our presence and in the presence of
<br />each other of the undersigned.
<br />Gust. Maus er of Bismarck, N.D.
<br />C.J. Haag of Bismarck, N.D.
<br />ENDORSEMENT: W 418
<br />LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF SOPHIA C.BRANDT
<br />OF BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA.
<br />I hereby certify that the within instrument was filed in this Court on the
<br />14th day of January, 1942, and recorded in Book 116" of Wills Records of said
<br />Court on Page 271.
<br />I.C.Davies
<br />Judge of the County Court,
<br />Burleigh County, N.D.
<br />STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA ) IN COUNTY COURT,
<br />County of Burleigh )ss' Before Hon.I.C.Davies
<br />Judge.
<br />IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Sophia C.Brandt, DECEASED.
<br />Frank L. Brandt )
<br />Petitioner ) CERTIFICATE OF THE PROBATE
<br />vs. ) OF WILL.
<br />Albert R.Brandt, Emma L.Lyngstad )
<br />and Walter J.Brandt, )
<br />Respondents. )
<br />I, I.C.Davies, Judge of the County Court, within and for the County of Burleigh, State of
<br />North Dakota, do hereby certify:
<br />That on the 14th day of January, A.D. 1942, the hereunto annexed instrument was admitted to
<br />probate as the Last Will and Testament of Sophia C.Brandt late of the City of Bismarck, in the
<br />County of Burleigh and State of North Dakota, deceased, and from the proofs taken and the examin-
<br />ation had therein, the said Court found as follows:
<br />That said Sophia C.Brandt died on or about the 12th day of January, A.D. 1941, in the City of
<br />Bismarck, in said County of Burleigh; that at the time of hsr death she was a resident of the
<br />City of Bismarck, County of Burleigh, and State of North Dakota.
<br />That the hereunto annexed instrument in writing was executed by said decedent in her lifetime,
<br />to -wit: On the 1st day of February A.D. 1940, in the City of Bismarck, County of Burleigh and
<br />State of North Dakota, and signed by her the said Sophia C.Brandt, in the presence of Gust Mauser
<br />and C.J.Haag, the subscribing witnesses thereto; also that she, the said Sophia C.Brandt acknow-
<br />ledged the execution of the same in their presence and declared the said instrument to be her Last
<br />Will and Testament, and the said witnesses attested the same at her request and in her presence,
<br />and in the presence of each other; that the said decedent, at the time of executing said Will, was
<br />of legal age, was of sound and disposing mind, and not under duress, menace, fraud, undue influence
<br />or misrepresentations, nor was she at any time in any respect incompetent to devise and bequeath
<br />her estate.
<br />IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, We have caused the seal of the County Court of said Burleigh County
<br />to be hereunto affixed.
<br />( SEAL )
<br />ENDORSEMENT: No. 2o65
<br />IN COUNTY COURT
<br />County of Burleigh
<br />STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA
<br />In the Matter of the Estate
<br />CERTIFICATE OF THE PROBATE
<br />State of NORTH DAKOTA
<br />County of Burleigh
<br />IN COUNTY COURT
<br />I hereby certify that
<br />in and for said County, on
<br />Book 116" of Wills Records
<br />Hyland & Foster,
<br />Attorneys for Petitioner,
<br />Bismarck, N.D.
<br />WITNESS, Hon. I.C.Davies Judge of the County Court
<br />of the said County of Burleigh, in the
<br />State of North Dakota, at the Court Room of
<br />said Court, in the City of Bismarck, in said
<br />Burleigh County, this 14th day of January,
<br />A. D. 1942.
<br />I.C.Davies
<br />Judge of the baid Count3F Court
<br />of Sophia C. Brandt,
<br />Deceased.
<br />OF WILL
<br />ass,
<br />the within certificate was filed in the County Court
<br />the 14th day of January, A.D., 1942, and recorded in
<br />of said Court, on page 272.
<br />D.B. Hagen,
<br />Clerk of the said County Court.
<br />STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA) ss.
<br />County of Burleigh )
<br />I. D.B.Hagen, Clerk of the County Court of said County, do hereby certify that I have compared .
<br />the within copy of Last Will and Testament and the within copy of Certificate of Probate of Will
<br />in the matter of the estate of Sophia C.Brandt,Deceased, with the respective originals thereof
<br />now on file and of record in the County Court of the County aforesaid, and that they are respectively
<br />a true copy of said Last Will and Testament and Certificate of Probate of Will, and of the whole
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