TEMPLETON, W.G.

TEMPLETON, RHOADES, BEATON, ANDERSON, DELASHMUTT, DAY, STONE, BROWN, BALES

Posted By: Roseanna Zehner
Date: 2/16/2005 at 17:05:02

Know all men by these presents.

That I, W.G. Templeton of Pacific City, Mills County, Iowa, Farmer & Groceryman being of Sound Mind & Memory Do Make & Publish This my Last Will & Testament as Follows.

First. I give & bequeath to my daughter Minnie Rhoades at my death One-fourth of my real & personal estate to be sold & divided.

Second. I give & bequeath to my daughter Maud Beaton one-fourth of my real & personal property.

Third. I give and Beqeath to my daughter Lizzie Anderson one-fourth of my real & personal property after deducting doctor & funeral expenses.

Fourth. To the following heirs of Joseph Bales, Wane Bales & Etney Bales, the Fourth to be equally divided between them.

Real Estate sold & proceed paid to above mentioned heirs in one year after my death.

I hereby appoint my sons in law J.H. Rhoades, Allen Beaton & Frank Anderson as my Executors & Administrators of my last Will & Testament.

In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand & seal & declare this to be my Last Will & Testament in the presence of the witnesses named below this 21st day of September 1903.

W.G. Templeton

Signed sealed & declared by the said W.G. Templeton as his last will & testament in the presence of us at his request & in his presence & and in the presence of each other have subscribed our name as witnesses hereto.

W.C. DeLashmutt
C.S. Day
J.C. Stone

STATE OF IOWA, Mills County ss
I, Walter S. Brown, Clerk of the Circuit Court, hereby certify that an instrument purporting to be the last Will and Testament of W.G. Templeton of Mills County, Iowa, was presented, read and filed on the 27th of January, 1913; that notice was published for its Probate in the Glenwood Opinion a weekly newspaper in Mills County, Iowa, one week, 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 W.G. Templeton and that letters testamentatary issue to the Executor named therein in accordance with which J.H. Rhoads, Allen Beaton & Frank Anderson 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 10 day of Feby. 1913, Walter S. Brown, Clerk of Circuit Court.

Walter S. Brown Clerk of District Court