Elisha Harris - Will
I, Elisha Harris a resident of Postville Allamakee
Co. State of Iowa being of sound and disposing mind
and memory and of full age do make publish and
declare this to be my last will and testament hereby
revoking all former wills by me made.
First I direct my admmistrator & executor to pay
all my just and legal debts and my funeral expenses.
Second: I have heretofore paid to each of my children
by way of advancement certain amounts but I have paid
to the following named children the following amounts
more as such advancements than to my other children
to wit: Maggie U. Powel $500.00, Chas A. Harris
$500.00, Mary E. Taylor $200.00 and to Henry S.
Harris $200.00 and in the distribution of my estate I
direct that such advancements be charged to said
children.
Third. I bequeath to Amanda J. Laughlin my piano.
Fourth I give devise and bequeath all the rest of my
estate both real and personal to my children Mary E.
Taylor, Wm Harris, Amanda J. Laughlin, Geo. W.
Harris, Jas M. Harris, Caroline Hammel, Delila A.
Redinour, Henry S. Harris, Maggie U. Powel, Charles
A. Harris and to Rena McMartin, Willard Bollman and
Maggie Green the children of my deceased daughter
Nancy E. Bollman to be divided as follows: to each of
my children one eleventh [1/11] and to the heirs of
my daughter Nancy E. Bollman one eleventh [1/11] to
be divided among them. The amount of the advancements
stated in paragraph 2nd hereof is to be considered a
part of the share of such child received hereunder
and when added to the amount received by such child
is to equal the amount [illegible word] hereunder by
each child not charged with such advancement.
Fifth I nominate and appoint Ellison Orr the executor
of this my last will and testament. Dated this 3rd
day of Feby AD 1896.
//s// Elisha Harris
Witnesses: Ellison Orr & F.S. Burling.
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On this 3rd day of Feby AD 1896 before the
undersigned and in our presence the forgoing
instrument was signed by the above named Elisha
Harris and [crossed out word] at the time of
signing the same [illegible] declared it to
be his last will and testament and asked us to sign
the same as witnesses which is accordingly done in
his presence and in the presence of each other.
//s// Ellison Orr, of Postville Iowa
//s// J.S. Burling, of Postville Iowa
Elisha Harris - Probate
abstracts
-Affidavit of Death filed February 13, 1896:
I, James M. Harris being duly sworn to our oath say
that Elisha Harris died on the 11th day of February
1896 at my residence in Postville. That at the time
of his death he was a resident of Allamakee Co. IA.
//s// J.M. Harris.
-Estate administrator: Ellison Orr
-Appraisement bill, real estate dated November 22,
1897.
- Appraisal of personal property by E. [Evan]
Swenson, Henry Webb & C.A. Abel on December 22,
1896 and filed on January 8, 1897.
- Bill for undertaking & casket - $40.00;
undertaking fluid - $2.00; total $42.00. Submitted by
J.B. Hart.
-Proof of will; notice appeared in the Postville
Review on March 21, 1896.
-Bill for marker & inscription - $50.00.
Submitted on August 15, 1899 by Ed H. Prior,
Monuments.
-Bill for medical services:
Jan 3, 1896 - visit & medication $1.00
Jan 14, 1896 - medicine $.50
Jan 21, 1896 - do
Jan 28, 1896 - do
Jan 31, 1896 - visit & medication $1.00
Feb 3, 1896 - do
Feb 6, 1896 - do
Total: $5.50. Submitted by F.J. Becker MD.
-Bill for medical services:
Feb 6, 1896 - medical attention $1.00
Feb 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 - each visit $1.00
Total: $6.00. Submitted by Dr. Chas. W. Flynn.
-A document signed by each of the beneficiaries of
the estate
- The sales bill of property sold at public auction
January 30th 1897. The total sale brought $2,010.94.
Buyers of items or livestock were C.A. Harris, H.
Meine, G.W. Harris, E. Hubbard, W.J. H. Schultz, Jno
Hammel, Wm. Harris, C.W. White, S.A. Harris, F.C.
Barclay, R.B. Waters, Geo Waters, C.U. Abel, Wm.
Leui, Jno Wick? & J.R. Laughlin
- A detailed listing of real estate and legal
descriptions of the property inherited by his heirs.
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