Estate Records of Frederick Tope , Sr.

ESTATE RECORDS OF FREDERICK TOPE, SR

In the name of God, Amen! I, Frederick Tope, of the County of Union and State of Ilinois, being weak in body, but of sound mind and memory, do make, ordain and establish this to be my last will and testament, hereby revoking all others, and I do hereby appoint Jacob Zimmerman and Elvira Tope, my beloved ife, to be the executors of this my last will and testament 1st - It is my will that all of my just debts be paid and that a sufficient of my personal property be sold for that purpose; 2nd - after the payment of all my just debts and funeral expenses, I do here advise and bequeath to my beloved wife the farm and improvements thereon, on the which I now live, known as the north east quarter of the north east quarter of section eleven in township south of range two west, containing forty acres more or less, the remainder of my personal estate I will and bequeath to my beloved wife. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal, this 27th day of August, A. D. 1842.

Frederick (His X Mark) Tope

        Attest:
        Miles H. Coleman
        Jesse N. Wise
        P. W. (His X Mark) Taylor

STATE OF ILLINOIS - COUNTY OF UNION

Schedule at a Court of the Probate, Justice of the Peace in and for said County
of Union and State of Illinois, held at the Court House in Jonesboro on the 30th day of December, A. D. 1842.

This day, personally appeared before me Daniel Heileman, Probate Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Union in open court the witnesses Miles H. Coleman and Jesse N. Wise, two creditable witnesses who being by me duly sworn and on their oaths depose and say that they were present and saw the within named Frederick Tope sign the written last will and testament in their presence, that they believe and still believe that the said Frederick Tope was of sound mind and memory at the time of signing the same and that they attested to the signing of said last will and testament in the presence and by the request of the said testator and in the presence of such others.

Witness Daniel Heileman, Probate

Justice of the Peace who has hereunto set his

hand and affixed the seal of the probate court

thereunto this 30th day of December 1852

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