I Mary Morgan of Treverton[sic] Northumberland
County Pennsylvania being of Sound mind, and desiring that any and all
property of every kind I may now or hereafter have or own, may be managed
invested, distributed or divided as the case may be, without trouble or
confusion by those I desire, as well after as before my death I publish
this my last will hereby revoking all former ones
And first, after deducting all expenses necesarily
incured[sic] by reason of my dissolution. I direct that all my property
of every kind be disposed of in accordance with the intestate laws of Pennsylvania
And I do hereby constitute and appoint my
son James W. Morgan Sole Executor of this my last will and testament
In witness whereof I Mary Morgan the testator
have to this my will, written on one sheet of paper, Set my hand and seal
this 2nd day of August A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy nine.
Signed sealed published and[missing line] Mary Morgan for her last will and testament in the presence of us who have hereunto[missing line] at her request as witnesses thereto in presence of said testator and of each other
her
W. Z. Raker
Mary X Morgan SEAL
Henry Z. Raker
mark
Geo D. Bucher Register
State of Pennsylvania,
County of Northumberland }ss.
Be it Remembered That on this Eighth day of April A. D., 1881 before me Geo D. Bucher, Register for the Probate of Wills and granting of Letters of Administration in and for said County, Personally appeared W. Z. Raker and Henry Z. Raker the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing instrument of writing purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Mary Morgan late of Trevorton County and State aforesaid, deceased, who being duly Sworn according to law did declare and say that they were personally present at the execution of the same and saw and heard the testatrix therein named, sign, seal, publish, pronounce and declare the same as and for her last Will and Testament, and that at the time of so doing she was of sound, disposing mind, memory and understanding to the best of their knowledge and belief.
Sworn and subscribed to before me
W. Z. Raker
Geo D. Bucher
Henry Z. Raker
Register
County of Northumberland, SS.
I James W. Morgan do swear that as executor of the foregoing last Will
and Testament of Mary Morgan deceased I will well and truly administer
the goods and chattles, rights and credits of said deceased, agreeably
to law, and that I will comply with the provisions of the law relating
to collateral inheritances. And I do further swear that she died
on the 26th day of March A. D., 1881
James W. Morgan