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  ID: I16468
  Name: John Senour 1 2 3 4
  Sex: M
  Birth: 14 NOV 1786 in Ravensworth, Fairfax County, Virginia 5 6 7
  Death: 4 DEC 1850 in Nora, Marion County, Indiana 5 8 9
  Will: 1 AUG 1846 Marion County, Indiana; codicil added 16 May 1849
  Probate: 20 DEC 1850 Marion County, Indiana
  Note:
  John Senour's will
  posted by Melrose Scales
  
  
  I John Senour of Marion County in the State of Indiana, do make and publish this my last will and Testament hereby revoking and making void all former wills by me at any time heretofore made. first. I direct that as to such worldly estate as it has pleased God to intrust me with. I dispose of the same in the following manner towit: I direct first that all my just debts be paid as soon after my decease as possible out of the first moneys that shall come to the hands of my executors from any portion of my estate real or personal. I also direct that a fair valuation or appraisement be made, by three judicious neighbors, of all my personal estate and household furniture and after being signed with their names that a copy of the same be given by them to each of my executors. I also direct that my heirs thats not got their portion of household furniture to have furniture of
  the same kind to make them equal with them thats got of the same sort. I also direct that if there should be any more personal property for it to be equally divided among my heirs excepting Mary Ellis’ children, they to have seventy-five dollars equally divided among them out of a note of one hundred dollars, which I hold against Daniel Z. Ellis their father & he the said Ellis to have the balance of said note which would be twenty-five dollars: and it is to be considered their just and full part of my estate both real & personal, and I further order & direct that my real estate shall be disposed of in the following manner towit: I direct that the East half of the South East quarter of section fourteen Range 3 East, Township 17th contain 80 acres & the West half of the South West quarter section Thirteen Range 3 East T. 17th containing 80 acres to be equally divided between Zacheriah Senour, John H. Senour & Jane Senour excepting one acre for a burying ground & one quarter of an acre for a public school, as long as the neighbors wish to occupy it for that purpose, and as respecting the burial ground it never to be sold or occupied for any other purpose. The foregoing real estate to be divided East & West and to be considered their just and full part of all my real estate. I also direct that the West half of the South East quarter of section 14 Range 3 E. T. 17th containing 80 acres to be equally divided between Eliza Senour now married to Jesse Bowen & Lucy Senour now married to Mathew W. Council the said Eliza to have the South End and the said Lucy to have the North end and it is to be considered their just and full part of all my real estate. And I also direct that the South East quarter of the South West quarter of section 14 Range 3 E. T. 17th containing 40 acres, immediately south of Thomas Laughlin’s land, to belong to Caroline Senour now married to Stephen Sharp and it is to be considered her just and full part of all my real estate - and I further direct that the South half of the north east quarter of section 22 R. 3 E. T 17th containing 80 acres I direct that my executors dispose of aforesaid lot of
  land to the best advantage, so as to convert it into money and by them to be divided as follows: Lucy Council to have fifty dollars, & Eliza Bowen to have fity dollars, & Caroline Sharpe fifty dollars - and my son Josiah to have ten dollars - the balance if any to be equally divided among my heirs, with the exception of Daniel Z. Ellis & his heirs. I further direct that my Executors shall out of the proceeds of the foregoing tract of land pay to my daughter Cynthia fifty dollars extra - I also direct authorize my executors to deliver up to my heirs the following list of notes which they gave me for money advance to purchase real estate with. Josiah Senour $110, Cynthia Barnhill $100, and James and Nancy Nutt $100 out of the notes I hold against his wife - And Elizabeth Laughlin’s heirs to Note $100. And I further direct my executors to allow my sons Zach & John to have and to hold the horses they now have & claim without accounting in any manner whatever.I hereby make and ordain my worthy and esteemed friends
  Josiah Senour & Eli Heaton Executors of this my last Will and testament.
  
  In witness whereof I John Lemon the testator have hereunto set my hand and seal this first day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and forty six.
  John Senour (seal)
  
  Signed, sealed, published and declared by the above name John Senour as his last Will and testament in the presence of us, who have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses thereto in the presence of each other.
  Abraham Bowen, Ephraim Bowen, John Smith.
  
  A Codicil as follows - Lucy and Mathew A. Council has got a deed to their above named forty acres of land since the above date, which above named deed is to stand against them.
  
  The burying ground to include my family graves where my wife was buried. And the quarter of an acre for the school house to stand on be adjoining the South West corner of section 3 T. 17th of Range 3 East - and also my daughter Cynthia wishes me to strike out the fifty dollars extra and make her equal with the rest. Given under my hand
  May the 16th 1849.
  John Senour (seal)
  
  State of Indiana, Marion county SS. Personally appeared in the Probate Court of the County aforesaid Abraham Bowen and Ephraim Bowen of said County and of lawful age, who being duly sworn upon their oaths say that John Senour the testator named in the foregoing last will and testament, executed, signed, sealed, and published and declared the same to be his last will and testament on the day of the date thereof, that said Testator was at that time of the full age of twenty-one years, of sound mind and memory and not under coercion & restraint, that said testator executed, signed, sealed, published, and declared the said last Will and testament as aforesaid in the presence of affiants and John Smith all of whom attested and subscribed the same as witnesses thereto in the presence and at the request of said testator and in the presence of each other.
  Abraham Bowen, Ephraim Bowen.
  
  Subscribed and sworn to this 20th day of December A. D. 1850.
  
  (LS) In witness of which I, William Stewart, Clerk of the County aforesaid hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of said the 20th day of December 1850.
  William Stewart, Clerk By Wm. Wallace, Depty.
  
  State of Indiana, Marion County S.S. I William Stewart of the Probate Court of the county aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing last will and testament has been duly admitted to Probate before me; that the same was duly proved by the affidavit of Abraham Bowen and Ephraim Bowen two of the subscribing witnesses thereto and that a full and complete Record of the proof and examination of the witnesses by whom the same was proved has been made on pages 288, 289, 290 & 291 of Will Record B Marion County.
  (LS) In witness whereof I hereunto affix the seal of said Court & subscribe my name at Indianapolis this 20th day of December A. D. 1850.
  Wm. Stewart, Clerk By Wm. Wallace, Deputy.
  

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