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WILL AND DECREE RECORD <br />20081 —The Augustine Co., Grand Island, Nebr. <br />LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT, ETC._ <br />LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF CHARLES BOSSELMAN. <br />I, Charles Bosselman, a resident of Merrick County, Nebraska, being of sound and disposing <br />mind and memory, do hereby make, publish and declare this to be my last will and testament,in <br />manner and form as follows: <br />1. <br />I direct that my funeral expense, the expenses of administrating my estate, and all my just <br />debts, save and excepting those secured by mortgages upon my real estate, if any therebe, be paid <br />by my executor hereinafter named out of my personal estate. <br />11. <br />I do hereby ive, devise and bequeath the West Half of the Northeast Quarter NOW of Section <br />Seventeen (17), Township Thirteen (13) North, Range Eight (8), West of the 6th P.M. in Merrick <br />County, Nebraska, to my wife, Johanna Bosselman, to take, have and hold the same for an as her own <br />sole property. <br />111. <br />I do hereby give, devise and bequeath to my wife, Johanna Bosselman, the use and control of, <br />and the income from, all the rest and residue of my real estate for and during the term of her <br />natural life, charging said life estate with the taxes on said real estate, the insurance, main- <br />tenance and repair of the buildings and improvements thereon, and the payment of all sums of money <br />becoming due during her lifetime on any indebtedness existing against said real estate at the <br />time of my death. <br />1V'. <br />Subject to the fore oing provision, I do hereby give, devise and bec� ueath the East Half of the <br />Northwest Quarter (ENE) of Section Seventeen (17), Township Thirteen (13) North, Range Eight (8) <br />West of the 6th P.M. in Merrick County, Nebraska, to my daughter, Lillie Bosselman, to take, have <br />and hold the same for and as her own sole property. <br />V. <br />If my sons, Charles 0. Bosselman, Norman Bosselman, and Fredrick Bosselman shall be living at <br />the time of the death of my wife, Johanna Bosselman, or at the time of my'death, should I survive <br />her, then I do hereby give, devise and bequeath the West Half of the West Half of the Southeast <br />Quarter MW�SEi) of Section Eight (8), and the South Half of the Southeast Quarter (SASE ) of <br />Section Nine (9), and the South Half of the Northwest Quarter (S *NW *) of Section Sixteen (16), <br />and a tract of land described as follows: Commencing at a point on the West line of Section <br />Sixteen (16), which is Thirteen Hundred (1300) Feet South of the Northwest corner of said section, <br />running thence East at right angles One Thousand Five (1005) Feet; thence North at right angles <br />Six Hundred Forty -eight (648) Feet; thence in an Easterly direction Eleven Hundred Five (1105) <br />Feet to a point which is Six Hundred Thirty (630) Feet South of the North line of said Section <br />Sixteen (16), when measured at right angles to the North line of said section; thence North Six <br />Hundred Thirty (630) Feet to the North line of said Section Sixteen (16); thence East along the <br />North line of said section to the Northeast corner of the North Half of the Northwest Quarter -' <br />(N�NWJ) of said section; thence South along the East line of the Northwest Quarter (NWJ) of said <br />section to the Southeast corner of the North Half of the Northwest Quarter (NJNW of said section; <br />thence West along the South side of the North Half of the Northwest Quarter (N2NWt) of said section <br />to the West line of said section; thence North along the West line of said section to the place of <br />beginning, all of said real estate being in Township Thirteen (13) North, Range Eight (8), West <br />of the 6th P.M. in Merrick County, Nebraska, to my son, Charles 0. Bosselman; the East Half of <br />the Northeast Quarter (EJNEJ), and the Northeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (NEJSE ) of <br />116). <br />Section Nine (9), and the West Half of the Northeast Quarter (W *NEJ) of Section Sixteen and <br />a tract of land described as follows: Commencing at the Northwest corner of Section Sixteen (16), <br />running thence South along the West line of said section Thirteen Hundred (1300) Feet; thence East <br />at right angles One Thousand Five Feet (1005); thence North at right angles Six Hundred Forty -eight <br />(648) Feet; thence in an Easterly direction a distance of Eleven Hundred Five (110.0 Feet to a point <br />which is; Six Hundred Thirty (630) Feet South of the North line of said section, when measured at <br />right angles; thence North Six Hundred Thirty (630) Feet to the North line of said Section; thence <br />West along the North line of said section to the place of beginning, all of said real estate being <br />located in Township Thirteen (13) North,Range Eight (8), West of the 6th P.M., in Merrick County, <br />Nebraska, to my son, Norman Bosselman; and the East Half of the Northwest Quarter (EJNWJ), and <br />the West Half of the Northeast Quarter (W *NEJ), and the Northwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter <br />(NWJSEJ), and a strip of land consisting of the East Three (3) Rods of the South Eighty -three (83) <br />Rods of the Southwest Quarter (SA), all located in Section Nine, (9), Township Thirteen (13) North, <br />Range Eight (8), West of the 6th P.M. in Merrick County, Nebraska, to my son Fredrick Bosselman, <br />to take, have and hold the same for an as their own sole property, but with each share charged with <br />the payment of one -third (113) of the sum of Eleven Thousand Dollars ($11,000.00) as hereinafter <br />provided for in Paragraph VII of this I&st will and testament, and with each share charged with the <br />payment of one -third (1/3) of the total indebtedness against all of said real estate, and with all <br />of the real estate in this paragraph described subject to the life estate of my wife, Johanna <br />Bosselman, as provided in Paragraph III hereof. <br />VI. <br />In the event that any one or more of my said sons, Charles 0. Bosselman, Norman Bosselman, or <br />Fredrick Bosselman should die before my wife, Johanna Bosselman, then any provisions made for <br />such son or sons in Paragraph V hereof shall be inoperative and ineffective, and in that event <br />I do hereby give, devise and bequeath the real estate therein devised to such son or sons to my <br />wife, Johanna Bosselman, to take have and hold the same for and hs her own sole property, but <br />charged with the same payments and debts as hereinabove provided if such son had succeeded his <br />mother in death. <br />VII. <br />The real estate hereinabove described in Paragraph V shall be charged with the payment of <br />the sum of Eleven Thousand Dollars ($110000.00) to my executor within two years after the death <br />of my wife, Johanna Bosselman, or within two years after m death, should I survive her. Upon <br />receipt of said sum of Eleven Thousand Dollars 011,000.00, I do hereby direct my executor to <br />pay to my daughter, Florence Bader, the sum of One Thousand Dollars ($1000.00); to pay to my <br />son, Arthur Bosselman, the sum of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00); to pay to my daughter, Frances <br />Meshelko, the sum of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00); to pay to my daughter, Charlotte Eaton, <br />the sum of Six Thousand Dollars ( 6000.00); and to pay to my daughter, Lillie Bosselman, the sum <br />of Two Thousand Dollars ($2000.00. <br />VIII. <br />I do hereby give and bequeath to Charles 0. Bosselman my blacksmith tools and equipment, desk, <br />safe, office chair, bird bath, lawn chairs and swing, and Ridpath's History of the World, to take, <br />have and hold the same for and as his own sole property. <br />