My request is for my wife Jane Brewer to have my lands and property to do as she please with her lifetime and them to be equally divied betwixt my children.
[signed] John Brewer

Test.
Ephraim Wilcox
Benjamin Wilcox
Samuel McNabb
Margret Write
Samuel Wilcox

[Note: This will was filed in Sangamon Co., but the involved parties resided in the Petersburg area of Menard Co.]

Contributed by Matthew Ferricks