John Arbaugh

Estate of John Arbaugh
Volume B, Pg 304, July 22, 1848
FHC F# 894183

The Last Will and Testament of John Arbaugh

    In the name of God Amen, I John Arbaugh of Rumley Township Harrison County and State of Ohio, being sick and weak of body but of sound mind, memoery and understanding, and knowing the certainity of death and the uncertainty of the time thereof, And to the end that I may be the better prepared to leave this world whenever it shall please God to call me hence, do therefore make and declare this my last Will and Testament in the manner following to wit:
    I will that my just debts as shallbe by me owing at my death together with my funeral expenses and all the vhanges touching the proving of or otherwise of this Will shall in the first place be paid out of my personal estate and after that my Will is that my Estate real and personal be divided as follows,  To my son James the quarter of land he now occupies, To my son Adam the half quarter of land he now occupies, and to my son Levi the half quarter of land lying between Jameses and Adams, and I do hereby empower my Executor to deliver to my son James the Deed for his tract of land and to make to Adam and Levi good Warrante Deeds for f** the tracts of land willed to them, the same being and lying in Perry Township Carroll County Ohio, and the above named Deeds free of cost to them, And my will further is that my daughter Catharine have four hundred dollars, to my daughter Margaret four hundred dollars, and to my daughter Lorraine four hundred dollars, and to my daughter Lydia Anna four hundred dollars, and to my son John the home farm with all the goods and Chattels not lawfully owned by other members of the family, subject to the incumbrances of my wife Rose Anne after paying the daughters share, and I further make and ordain Phillip Strambaugh as Executor of my estate or this my last Will and Testament.  In witness whereof I John Arbaugh testator, have to this my last Will and Testament at my hand this 22nd day of July 1848.

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                                                                                                               John      X   Arbaugh   (seal)
Attest: Ephraim Stewart                                                                                      mark
           Samuel Dayhuff


The State of Ohio, Harrison County
Will Proven                     }   Court of Common Pleas  August 7 A.D. 1848 session A.D. 1848
                                         August 21 being the first day of the * Session on motion of Thos L. Jewett Esq. The last Will and Testament of John Arbaugh late of the County of Harrison in the State of Ohio was brought into Court and offered for probate, and it appearing to the Court by the Testimony of Ephraim P. Stewart and Samuel Dayhuff the subscribing witnesses to said Will that said Will was duly attested and executed, that the said witnesses subscribed the same as witnesses in presence of the Testator, and that the Testator at the time of executing the same was of full age and of sound mind and memory and not under any restraint, said Will is approved and admitted to probate, and it is ordered that said Will together with the Testimony taken to prove the same be recorded by the  Clerk of this Court, and Probate thereof together with Letters Testamentry iz granted unto Philip Shambaugh the executor in said Will named.  Bond to be given in the sum of $1000 and Michael Shambaugh and John Shambaugh were approved of as Security and Peter Hinebaugh and William Stall, and George Shambaugh were appointed appraisers.
    Rose Anne Shambaugh, widow of rel*ct of said Deceased personally came into Court and relinguished her right of Dower and elected to take under the Will of her Deceased husband

                                                                                                   Attest               S MCormick, Clerk