Name/Title
Last Will of Joel B. Cahoon CopyEntry/Object ID
2000.FIC.02.379Scope and Content
Copy of Joel B. Cahoon's Last Will and Testament along with the Executor's Letters to Thomas H. Cahoon and Margaret A. Cahoon
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Civil Doc.... No....
Probate Court
Estate of
Joel B. Cahoon
Executor's Letters to Thomas H. Cahoon and Margaret A. Cahoon
Recorded, Printed Bonds and Letters,
No. .... Page.....
Last will of Joel B. Cahoon.
In the name of the Benevolent Father of All, I Joel B. Cahoon, do make and publish this my last will and Testament.
Item 1st. I give and bequeath to my wife Margaret A. Cahoon in lieu of her dower the one third part or portion of all the property belonging to me at my decease, both personal and real, after the payment of claims due from my estate (if any) shall have been paid, to be hers and her heirs forever. And in the event of my decease before the expiration of a certain lease heretofore executed to my sons L J. + J.M. Cahoon. it is my will that the rent accruing on said lease from the time of my decease to the expiration of the lease shall belong to, and be paid, my said wife if she be living.
Item 2d. I give and devise to my five sons, to wit: Thomas H., J. Joseph, D. Kenyon, Leverett J. and J. Marshall Cahoon, and to my four daughters Lydia E. Laura E. Martha W. and Ida M. Cahoon the two thirds part or portion of my property, personal + real, remaining after deducting the one third as above willed to my wife, to be divided and shared by them equally in equal shares and proportions and belong to them and their heirs forever.
Item 3d. It is my will that my executors erect, or cause to be erected, a suitable monument to my memory.
Item 4. I hereby nominate and appoint my wife Margaret A. Cahoon Executrix, and my son Thomas H. Cahoon Executor, of this my last will + testament, without Bonds, and it is my will that an inventory and
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appraisal of my personal property be omitted, in testimony whereof I, Joel B. Cahoon, have hereunto set my hand and seal this eighth day of January in the year 1849.
J.B. Cahoon
signed, sealed + acknowledged by Joel B. Cahoon as his last will + testament, in our presence, + signed by us in his presence,
L.H. Johnson
M.E. Osborn
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The State of Ohio
Cuyahoga County, ss. }
I hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a full and true copy from the original Last Will and Testament of Joel B. Cahoon deceased, now on file in the Office of the Probate Court of said County.
Witness my hand, and Seal of said Court, at Cleveland, this 7 day of November 1882
Danl. R. Tilden Probate Judge
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Civ. Doc..... No. .....
Probate Court
Copy of Last Will and Testament of Joel B. Cahoon
Recorded Record of Wills,
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Letters Testamentary,
The State of Ohio
Cuyahoga County, SS. }
I Daniel R. Tilden, Judge of the Probate Court, within and for said Cuyahoga County, in the name and by the authority of the State of Ohio, do by these presents MAKE KNOWN, that in said Probate Court at Cleveland, on the seventh day of November one thousand eight hundred and eighty two the last Will and Testament of Joel B. Cahoon late of Dover in said County, deceased, (a copy of which is hereto annexed,) was duly proven and allowed by said Court; and that the administration of all and singular the goods, chattels, rights and credits of the said deceased any way concerning his last Will and Testament was committed to Thomas H. Cahoon and Margaret A. Cahoon in the County aforesaid, the Executors in the said Will and Testament named; and the said Executors shall [section crossed out and not transcribed] administer according to law, and the will of the Testator all the goods, chattels, rights and credits, and the proceeds of all the Real Estate that may be sold for the payment of the debts or legacies, which shall at any time come to their possession, or to the possession of any other person for them; and; 3d, shall render up on oath, just and true account of their administration, within eighteen months, and at any other times, when required by the Court or the Law, and failing so to do for thirty days after, they shall have been notified of the expiration of the time by the Probate Judge, they shall receive no allowance for services, unless the Court shall enter upon its journal that such delay was necessary and reasonable. And we do hereby appoint the said Thomas H. Cahoon and Margaret A. Cahoon Executors of all and singular said goods, chattels, rights and credits which were of the said Joel B. Cahoon deceased.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court, at Cleveland, in said County, this 7th day of November 1882.
Danl. R. Tilden Judge.Collection
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Cahoon, D. KenyonPerson or Organization
Cahoon, Ida M.Person or Organization
Cahoon, J. JosephPerson or Organization
Cahoon, J. MarshallPerson or Organization
Cahoon, Joel B.Person or Organization
Cahoon, Laura E.Person or Organization
Cahoon, Leverett J.Person or Organization
Cahoon, Lydia E.Person or Organization
Cahoon, Margaret A.Person or Organization
Cahoon, Martha W.Person or Organization
Cahoon, Thomas H.Person or Organization
Johnson, L.H.Person or Organization
Osborn, M.E.Person or Organization
Tilden, Daniel R.
