BEASTON, Marg(a)ret A.

BEASTON, MILLER, SOBENS, WOODSIDE, WRIGHT

Posted By: Cay Merryman (email)
Date: 1/6/2003 at 17:23:54

Last Will and Testament of Margret (sic) A. Beaston

To Whom it may Concern: That I, Margaret (sic) Ann Beaston of Fremont Co., State of Iowa do hereby make and declare this my last Will and Testament for all purposes as therein expressed to be and have effect upon my decease as follows towit:

I hereby Will, devise and bequeath to Columbus C. Beaston, all the Real Estate that I may have or possess, upon the condition that the said Columbus C. Beaston pays to John B. Beaston, Hannah J. Miller, Isabela R. Sobens, James M. Beaston, Louis S. Woodside, Martha I. Woodside and John C. Woodside and Ida May Wright, the sum of Two Hundred Dollars each, to be paid in installments of Two Hundred Dollars per year without interest, commencing with the oldest heir named.

My personal property to be sold and the proceeds to go towards paying off any indebtedness that may be against the Estate. If there is a balance left after paying off all debts, the same to be divided equally between the above named heirs. And I hereby appoint Sirenus S. Paulem (sic) my Executor of the above Will.

In witness whereof I have hereuno subscribed my name at my residence in said Co. & State on this the 24th day of Jan. 1877.
Signed….Margret (sic) A. Beaston

State of Iowa, Fremont County, Jany. 24th 1877
I, Ed Wellington do hereby Certify that Margaret A. Beaston signed the above instrument in our presence and acknowledged the same to be her voluntary act and according to her desire.
Ed. Wellington
Cyrenus S. Palm

State of Iowa, Fremont County…I, W. G. Templeton, Clerk of the Circuit Court of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby Certify, that at the May term, 1882, the foregoing will of Margaret A. Beaston, deceased, was duly proven, allowed and admitted to probate.

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of paid Court to be affixed at my Office in Sidney, this 24th day of May 1882….W. G. Templeton