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Ashtabula County Probate Court case #9305
In the name of the Benevolent Father of all.
I, Jeremy D. Strickland of the township of Andover, County of Ashtabula and
State of Ohio, being of sound mind and memory do hereby revoke and wholly annul all former wills and codicils to
wills made by me and I do make and publish this my last will and testament.
Item: First. It is my desire and I hereby direct that all my honest debts be first paid out of my personal estate.
Item: Second. I hereby will, give, grant, and bequeath to my beloved wife Leonora H. Strickland during her life
all the rents, profits, and the entire use and control of all the real estate of which I may die seized, and I
devise to her a life estate in said real estate to terminate with her life. I also give, grant, and bequeath to
my said wife the entire use, control, rents, profits, and benefits of the use of all personal property during her
life, including all notes, claims, and demands, and cases in action, and it is my desire and I hereby authorized
her to dispose of any of said personal property and reinvest the same as she may deem for the best interest of
the estate and she may collect any and all claims, notes, and demands and reinvest the same and in the event she
desires for her support more than the rents, profits and use of said real estate, and the rents, profits, and use
of said personal property and interest in claims for her support and comfort, then I hereby give, grant, and devise
to her the right to sell any of said personal property and use the same for her comfort and support during her
life. But it is my desire and I hereby disclose that the provision for my said wife is to be in lieu of and to
cut off all claim to a years support and right to dower in said real estate and all other allowances under the
statutes of Ohio.
Item. Third. I hereby give, grant, and bequeath to my beloved daughters Mary E. Strickland and Nellie I. Strickland,
at the death of my beloved wife, all my real estate in fee simple to be equally divided between them, and I also
give and bequeath to them all the personal property rights, claims, and cases in action which may belong to my
estate at and after the decease of my said wife, to be also equally divided between them.
I hereby nominate and appoint my beloved wife Leonora H. Strickland executrix upon my estate and I hereby authorize
and empower her to settle, compromise, and adjust all claims and collect the same as she may deem best and I desire
that no appraisement or sale be made of any of my property, and I hereby request the court to direct that the same
be omitted in [illegible] of the statute.
In witness whereof I hereto set my hand and seal on this 5th day of December, A.D. 1885 as my last will and testament.
J. D. Strickland {LS}
Signed by said testator Jeremy D. Strickland in our presence and acknowledged by him to be his last will and testament
on this 5th day of December, A.D. 1885 and signed by each of us in his presence and in the presence of each other
at his request [?} at the date above mentioned.
W. P. Howland
G. W. Stevens
APPLICATION FOR PROBATE OF WILL
And Journal Entry, Orders for Filing, Notice and Hearing
Probate Court, Ashtabula County, Ohio
In the matter of the Last Will and Testament of
Jeremy D. Strickland
Application to Admit to Probate
Deceased
To the Probate Court of Said County:
Your petitioner respectfully represents that Jeremy D. Strickland, late a resident of the township of Andover in
said County, died on or about the 2nd day of October, A.D. 1911, leaving an instrument in writing, herewith produced,
purporting to be his last Will and Testament.
That the said Jeremy D. Strickland died leaving Leonora H. Strickland his widow who resides at Andover, and the
following named persons his only next of kin, to-wit:
Name Degree of Kinship P.O. Address
May Creesy daughter Ashtabula O.
Nellie Baker “ Traverse City, Mich.
Homer Strickland son unknown
Watson Strickland “ “
Your petitioner offers said Will for probate, and prays that a time may be fixed for the proving of the same, and
that said above persons residents in this State may be notified according to the law of the pendency of said proceedings.
Leonora H. Strickland
Petitioner
The State of Ohio, Ashtabula County, ss.
The above named Leonora H. Strickland, being first duly sworn, says that the facts stated and allegations in the
foregoing application contained, are true as she verily believes.
Leonora H. Strickland
Sworn to before me and signed in my presence this 9th day of October 1911.
Clara Pease
Dep. Clerk, Probate Court
We, the undersigned widow and next of kin of the within named testator,
resident of the State of Ohio, hereby waive further notice, and consent to the probate of said Will.
Dated this _______ day of ____________, A.D. 1911.
Leonora H. Strickland
Nellie Baker
May Creesy
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PROOF OF SIGNATURE OF WITNESS TO WILL
Probate Court, Ashtabula County, Ohio
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In the matter of
The will of
Jeremy D. Strickland
Testimony
Deceased.
The State of Ohio, Ashtabula County, ss. |
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Personally appeared in open Court Fred Williams who being first duly sworn to
testify to the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, in the matter of the Will of Jeremy D. Strickland
deceased, deposes and says, that G. W. Stevens whose name appears as one of the subscribing witnesses to the Last
Will and Testament of Jeremy D. Strickland deceased, hereunto annexed, as, since the date of the said Will, December
5th, 1885, deceased; that I am well acquainted with the handwriting and signature of said deceased witness, and
that the signature of said G. W. Stevens purporting to be his, as one of the subscribing witnesses to said Will,
is the true and genuine signature of the said deceased witness G. W. Stevens.
Fred Williams
Sworn to before me and signed in my presence, in open Court, this 28th day of October, 1911.
Chas. C. Babcock
Probate Judge
(Contributed by
Nan
Starjak as copied from family records)
Source: Ashtabula Co. Genealogical Society
Written: August 15 1892
In the Name of the Beloved Father of All: Amen. I, Henry
Strickland, of the Township of Kingsville, County of Ashtabula and
State of Ohio, being about seventy-three 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 sister Mary S. Morley one thousand
dollars Third: - To my brother Jeremy Strickland one thousand dollars.
Fourth: - To my brother Wesley Strickland two hundred dollars. Fifth: - To my niece Eva M. Strickland fifteen hundred dollars.
Sixth: - To my nephew Wade B. Strickland one thousand dollars. Seventh: - To my niece Katie E. Strickland one thousand dollars.
Eighth: - In case there should be a balance left belonging to my Estate after
the payment of all of my just debts and funeral expenses, and the legacies
mentioned in Items Second, Third Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh, it is my
will that such balance or remainder be paid to and distributed among the
Legatees mentioned in said Items Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and
Seventh, of this my Last Will and Testament prorata. Ninth: - Having on or about the 21st day of June 1892, paid and turned over to
my wife Lydia G. Strickland eight thousand three hundred and fifty dollars
worth of personal property, and conveyed by deed real estate to her in fee
simple of the value of one thousand dollars or more to her full satisfaction
in lieu of her right of dower, and any and all right or rights which she may
or might have under the laws of the State of Ohio as my widow (in case she
survives me), in any and all property of every nature and kind, of which I may
die siezed and possessed of, and which may belong to my estate at the time of
my death; Wherefore I do give, devise, and bequeath to my said wife Lydia G.
Strickland nothing in this my Last Will and
Testament. Tenth: - I do hereby nominate and appoint John Jones of South Kingsville,
Ashtabula County, Ohio, Executor of this my Last Will and Testament.
In Testimony Whereof, I have set my hand to this, my Last Will and Testament,
at Ashtabula Ohio, this fifteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety Two. Henry Strickland
The foregoing instrument was signed by the said Henry Strickland in our
presence, and by him Published and Declared as and for his Last Will and
Testament, and at his request, and in his presence, and in the presence of
each other, we hereunto subscribe our Names as Attesting Witnesses, at
Ashtabula Ohio, this 15th day of August, A.D. 1892.
Nathaniel Stanton, resides at
Ashtabula Ohio.
R. W. Calvin, resides at
Ashtabula Ohio.
Transcribed & submitted by Nan Lambert Starjak
Ashtabula Co., OH, Vol. A2, pg. 336
In the matter of Wallace C. Strickland’s Will
Be it remembered that heretofore to wit at the Court of Probate held at the
court house in the town of Jefferson in the County of Ashtabula and State of
Ohio on the tenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-nine the Last Will and Testament of Wallace C. Strickland
late of Morgan in said County was produced in Court and it appearing that John
B. Morris, David Clough and Mary C. Smith the subscribing witnesses to the
said will being absent from this state and residents of Wilberham (?) in the
County of Hampden and state of Massachusetts, it is ordered by the Court that
a commission be issued, with the will attached, to William P. Chaffee of the
said town of Wilberham in the County of Hampden, State of Massachusetts, to
take the depositions of the said John B. Morris, David Clough and Mary C.
Smith, and return the same attached to said Will and commission to this court
with all convenient speed. Thereupon a commission with the will attached
issued, which said Commission is in the words and figures following, to wit:
The State of Ohio, Ashtabula County
To William P. Chaffee, Esq. Wilberham, Mass.,
Greeting. Know ye that in confidence of your prudence and fidelity I have
appointed you and by these presents do give to you full power and authority to
examine and take the depositions of John B. Morris, David Clough and Mary C.
Smith the subscribing witnesses to the last Will and Testament of Wallace C.
Strickland hereto annexed, late of Morgan, Ashtabula County, and State of Ohio
deceased. And therefore you are hereby commanded that at a certain day or
days, and place or places to be appointed by you, you cause the said John B.
Morris, David Clough, and Mary C. Smith, to be brought before you and then and
there examine them upon their corporeal oath or affirmation first taken before
you touching the due execution of said Will of the said Wallace C. Strickland,
particularly whether the said John B. Morris, David Clough and Mary C. Smith
were present when the said Wallace C. Strickland signed said Will; whether the
said testator at the time of executing the same was of sound and disposing
mind and memory, and more than twenty-one years of age; whether the said
testator executed the said will freely and voluntarily being under no
restraint; and whether the said John B. Morris, David Clough, and Mary C.
Smith attested the said Will in the presence of the said Wallace C. Strickland
and of each other, and that you reduce such examination to writing and return
the same with this commission and the said Will of the said Wallace C.
Strickland hereto attached, closed up under your seal unto the Court of
Probate of said County of Ashtabula with all convenient speed. Witness my hand
and official seal at Jefferson this 10th day of June AD 1859. W.A. Plumb (?)
Probate Judge by C. G. (or S) Bushnell Deputy Clerk {LS}
Which said commission, Will and testimony attached was afterwards to wit on
the Twenty fourth day of August in the year last above mentioned was returned
into the Probate Court under seal. Which said testimony and return is in the
words and figures following, to wit:
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Hampden County SS. I hereby certify that before
me, William P. Chaffee to whom the above Commission was directed, the above
named John B. Morris, David Clough and Mary C. Smith were duly sworn and their
several depositions were taken by me at Wilberham in Hampden County on the
11th day of July Eighteen hundred and fifty nine. William P. Chaffee {LS}
Testimony:
In the matter of the Last Will and Testament of Wallace C. Strickland late of
the Town of Morgan in the County of Ashtabula and State of Ohio. We the
subscribing being duly sworn depose and say that we were present when the said
Wallace C. Strickland signed said Will, and that he was at the time of sound
and siposing mind and memory and more than twenty-one years of age, and that
he executed the same freely and voluntarily being under no restraint and that
we attested said Will in the presence of said Wallace C. Strickland and of
each other. John B. Morris, David Clough, Mary C. Smith, sworn to and
subscribed before me the 11th day of July AD 1859. William P. Chaffee.
Which said Will is in the words and figures following, to wit:
Be it remembered that I Wallace C. Strickland of Morgan, Ashtabula County,
State of Ohio, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament, and in
manner and form following, viz.:
I give, devise, and bequeath to my beloved wife Mary Ann Strickland, her heirs
and assigns forever, all my estate both real and personal of which I may die
seized, after paying my just debts and funeral expenses. And I hereby nominate
and appoint my wife Mary Ann Strickland executor of this my last Will and
testament, revoking all others. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and seal this third day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and fifty nine(?).
his
Wallace C. X Strickland
mark
Signed, sealed, and published and declared by the said Wallace C. Strickland
in the presence of us who subscribed the same as witnesses thereto in his
presence and at his request and in the presence of each other.
John B. Morris
David Clough
Mary C. Smith
Attest: Henry Tapett (?) Probate Judge
transcribed & submitted by Nan Lambert Starjak
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