DEAN, William E.

DEAN, POTTER, PEARCE

Posted By: Jennifer Miller
Date: 12/8/2004 at 07:25:55

I, William E. Dean being at this time of sound mind and memory and being possessed of certain property do make this my last will and testament as follows.

First, I direct my executors hereafter named as soon as practical after my decease to take charge of my property of every kind and to first pay any debts including proper funeral and medical expenses that may have been incurred during my last illness and also to procure and have erected on my lot in Glenwood Cemetery a suitable family monument. The design and kind of material to be selected by my executor in consultation with my surviving children.

The cost of the monument not to exceed four hundred dollars.

The remaining portion of my property I give and bequeath as follows, to wit:

All my household goods, including beds, bedding, books, pictures, and wearing apparel excepting silverware as hereafter named, is is to be divided as near equally in value between my four sons, as may be.

All my silverware that formerly belonged to both ____ my wife Susan and to my wife Eliza, I give to Annie Dean, the wife of my son Benjamin.

The watch which was formerly the property of my wife Eliza I also give to her.

My farming tools of every kind, including the sheller, power, and feed mill, and harvester, I give to my son Benjamin and in addition thereto the sum of ____ dollars, providing my estate shall amount to six thousand (6000) dollars reconning all property at a fair market valuation.

This valuation to be determined by my four sons, in consultation if they are able to so agree, if not then, by two entirely disinterested parties to be named by my executor, and these two referees to name a third party to assist them.

All my legal papers and copies of official reports and business papers and correspondence of all kinds I give to my son Seth and in addition thereto the sum of _____.

To my son Harry I give the sum of _____

To my son Alvia I give the sum of _____

And in case my estate shall amount to more or less than the sum named, vize 6000 dollars, the money bequests above named to be divided among the several parties named in the proportion specified.

I hereby name as my executor my son Seth Dean, who shall be required to give the proper bond as required by law.

Signed this 18 day of March, 1894
William E. Dean

Witnesses
{Fanny Dean
{Anna Pearce

STATE OF IOWA, Mills County, --ss
I, C.C. Potter Clerk of the District Court, hereby certify than an instrument purporting to be the last Will and Testament of William E. Dean of Mills County, Iowa, was presented, read and filed on the 31st day of March 1894; that notice was published for its Probate in the Glenwood Opinion, a weekly newspaper in Mills County, Iowa, three consecutive weeks, the last publication being ten days before the time appointed for its probate; that on said time appointed, the execution of said will was duly approved by the subscribing witnesses thereto; and also that the said testator at the time of its execution was of full age, sound disposing mind and memory, and free to act. It was then and there adjudged and ordered by the court that the aforesaid instrument was duly executed and that the same be admitted to Probate as the last Will and Testament of William E. Dean, and that letters testamentatory issue to the Executor named therein in accordance with which Seth Dean, Executor named in said will, were appointed to carry its provisions into effect.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have attached the seal of this Court and subscribed my name this 17th day of May 1894.
C. C. Potter Clerk of District Court.