This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Barber,Simpson, Fall, Hill, McKenzie, Chambers, Rains Classification: Will Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nk.2ADI/772 Message Board Post: Will of Sarah Barber I, Sarah Barber of Glenwood, Mills county, Iowa, being of sound and deposing mind and memory do hereby make, publish and declare this to be my last will and testament hereby expressly revoking the will heretofore made by me. 1..I do hereby declare that I owe no debts but I direct that any indebtedness that may hereinafter arise and which shall not have been settled at the time of my death and including expenses of last sickness and funeral shall be first paid out of my estate. 2..I trust to the affection of my children to make suitable provision for monument, either by inscription on the present one or by a new one, as they prefer and so make no provision for same in my will. 3..I hereby appoint Wm. M. Lamb as the executor of this my last will and having implicit confidence in both his integrity and business capacity, I ask that he may be allowed to qualify by signing his own bond. 4..I direct that my executor as soon after qualification as may be reasonable and best, sell all my real estate, both farm and town property and the personal property which I may leave at my death and of the proceeds so obtained make the following disposition To Wit: Pay to Mary Jane Simpson One Hundred dollars. Sarah Fall (?) Five Hundred dollars Carrie Hill Five Hundred Alice McKenzie Five Hundred Sylvester H. Barber Five Hundred Daniel Barber Five Hundred Nancy Chambers One Hundred dollars Wesley H. Barber Five Hundred dollars Solomon Rains Five dollars H.K. Barber Five dollars. The reason why I give my son H K. but five dollars is that he has heretofore had a sufficient allowance. After these above mentioned payments are made as so stated, I desire that all the balance of my property including money on hand at time of my death and remainder of proceeds of sales of my property shall be divided among the above named heirs in the same proportions as set out in the section next preceeding this. ..Sarah (X her mark) Barber Dated January 1st 1900 Witness to signature Shirley Gillilland The foregoing instrument was on this first day of January 1900 executed and signed by Sarah Barber in our presence and we at her request signed our names thereto as witness both in her presence and in the presence of each other. Shirley Gillilland C. R. Buffington Dated January 1st 1900