Proof of Will - John S. JOHNSON

JOHNSON, CASE

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 3/25/2007 at 15:36:40

"Fairfield Ledger Weekly", April 29, 1869

Proof of Will.
STATE OF IOWA,}
Jefferson County} SS:

To whom it may concern:

Know ye: That on the 22d day of March 1869, a sealed envelope, said to contain the Last Will and Testament of John S. JOHNSON deceased, late of said county, was filed in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court, and afterwards, to-wit: on the 21st day of April 1869, said sealed envelope was opened, and its contents, a paper purporting to be said Last Will and Testament of said deceased, publicly read in open Court, and the first day of the next term of the Circuit Court of said County set for the proof and final hearing of the same. Notice is threfore hereby given to all concerned that the proof of said Will will be heard on the first day of the next term of the Circuit Court for said County, to be held in the Court-House in Fairfield on the 4th Monday of May 1869.

Witness, Geo. H. CASE, Clerk, and the [SEAL] seal of said Court, this 27th day of April, 1869.
GEO. H. CASE, Clerk of the Circuit Court.
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*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s) mentioned.