Name/Title
Laura E. Cahoon's WillEntry/Object ID
2000.FIC.02.398Scope and Content
Cover: Last Will and Testament of Laure E. Cahoon
Dated Nov 15 1886
G.S. Newcomb & Co., / Publishers and Jobbers of / Legal Blanks and Dockets / For Attorneys and Justices, / Cleveland, O.
I, Laura E. Cahoon, of the City of Cleveland, County of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, being about ___ years of age, and being of sound and disposing mind and memory, Do make, publish and declare this my Last Will and Testament, hereby revoking and making null and void all other Last Wills and Testaments by me made heretofore:
First: - My Will is, that all my just Debts and funeral expenses shall be paid out of my Estate, as soon after my decease as shall be found convenient.
Second: - I Give, Devise, and Bequeath to my mother Margaret A. Cahoon: one hundred dollars and onyx pin.
My brother Thomas H. Cahoon: Fifty dollars with which I desire him to purchase a keepsake which he will wear always
My brother J, Joseph Cahoon: Two hundred dollars, and crayon portraits of Father and Mother
My sister Lydia E. Cahoon: Cup + saucer, tablespoon, jewel box.
Mt brother D. Kenyon Cahoon: One hundred dollars and "Our First Century" and cabinet photographs of Father and Mother in plush frames.
My sister Martha H. Cahoon: Gold glasses After dinner set, Album
My brother Marshall Cahoon: Gold band ring. "Around the World With Grant,"
My sister Ida M. Cahoon:
Gold pin, Pearl handled knives, and my books.
Third:-
To my three sisters Lydia, Martha, and Ida. I leave my share of the house and lots on Broadway, and household furniture, share and share alike. If only two of the sisters here in named be living at the time of my decease, they will receive the portion of the other one, and if only one be living she will receive it all. If none of the sisters be living my share of th house and lots on Broadway will be given to J. Marshall Cahoon.
Fourth:-
To my sister Martha H. Cahoon I give and bequeath my share of the Baldwin farm in Dover.
Fifth.
All other property either personal or real of which I may die ceased I give and bequeath to Lydia E. Cahoon, Martha H. Cahoon, J. Marshall Cahoon and Ida M. Cahoon share and share alike.
I name as Executors my brother J. Joseph Cahoon and my sister Ida M. Cahoon.
Back:
In Testimony Whereof; I have set my hand to this, my Last Will and Testament, at Cleveland Ohio, this 15 day of November, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and 86. Laure E. Cahoon.
The foregoing Instrument was signed by the said Laura E. Cahoon in our presence, and by her Published and Declared as and for her Last Will and Testament, and at her request, and in her presence, and in the presence of each other, we hereunto subscribe our Names as Attesting Witnesses at Cleveland Ohio, this Fifteenth day of November, A.D. 1886.
Belle Stoneman, resides at 88 Brenton Street
Antoinette Dubois, resides at 1931 Broadway Cleveland Ohio.Collection
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