This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Rew, Brock Classification: Will Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nk.2ADI/766 Message Board Post: (this is not my family and I have no further information) MILLS COUNTY WILL (there are many typographical errors in this typed will, also typeovers make words hard to read and lack of punctuation marks don't help) This is the last Will and Testament of one Robert Rew, of number 1, The Crescent Mount Radford Exeter whereof I appoint my wife sole Executrix. I give and bequeath all my consumable effects, plate, linen china books pictures prints wines furniture and other household effects horses carriages live and dead stock unto my said wife absolutely. I devise to my said wife in fee simple the house and garden adjoining wherein I reside and known as No. 1 The Crescent Mount Radford Exeter for her own sole and separate use and benefit absolutely. I devise and bequeath unto my cousin Henry Rew of Whipton and my said wife all that my estate and farm hereditaments (sic) and premises of eighty acres or thereabouts in Township Seventy three North of Range Forty One situate in Mills County Ohio (sic) in America free from the mortgage debt which may be due thereon which I declare if not already paid off shall be paid solely out of my residuart (sic) personal esate upon Trust to pay the re! nts issues and profits thereof unto Harriet Rew and Fannie Rew daughters of James Rew now residing at Paignton in equal moieties during their joint lives and after the decease of one of them then upon trust to pay the last mentioned rents issues and profits to the survivor of them during her life and in each case for her absolute use and benefit respectively free from the control debts or engagements of any husband with whom she may intermarry and so that she shall have no power during coverture to alien charge or anticipate the same and after the decease of the survivor of the said Harriet Rew and Fanny Rew then as to the said Farm Lands and hereditaments upon Trust for Godfrey Rew only son of the said Henry Rew his heirs and assigns absolutely. Whereas by the will of my late uncle William Rew of Culverlands Exeter Deceased I have power to appoint the sum of one Thousand pounds which by that Will is bequeathed upon trust to pay the income to his wife Martha during her lif! e or widowhood and after her death upon Trust to pay the same to me until the events therein mentioned and then upon Trust as to the Capital for such persons and in such proportions as I shall by my last Will appoint Now I give and bequeath and by virtue of the said Power and all other powers me enabling appoint the same and the investment representing the same sum of One Thousand Pounds unto and between Beatrice Rew of Whitefield Terrace Plymouth in Devon and the said Godfrey Rew absolutely share and share alike as tenants in common and subject as aforesaid I give devise and bequeath all the rest and residue of my hereditments and premises real and personal estate and effects unto my said wife her heirs executors and administrators absolutely subject to the payment of my debts funeral and Testamentary Expenses. In Testamony whereof I the said Robert Rew the Testator have to this my last Will and Testament contained in one sheet of paper set my hand this sixteenth day of M! ay One thousand eight hundred and ninety. Signed....Robert Rew Signed by the said Robert Rew the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same time who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses. H. Ford Jun; Solicitor Exeter W. J. Harris; Clerk to Messrs. Ford, Harris, Harris & Ford Solrs. Exeter Be it known that at the date hereunder written the last will and Testament of Robert Rew late of No. 1. The Crescent Mount Radford in the parish of Saint Leonard in the County of the City of Exeter Gentleman deceased who died on the 24th day of May 1890 at No. 1. The Crescent aforesaid and who at the time of his death had fixed a place of abode at Exeter with the District of the County of Devon was proved and registered in the District Probate Registry of her Majesty's High Court of Justice at Exeter and that Administration of the personal estate Court to Mary Brock Rew of No. 1. The Crescent aforesaid widow the relict of the deceased the sole Executrix named in the said will she having been first sworn well and faithfully to administer the same. Dated the 12th day of July 1890 Gross Value of Personal Estate 1937 pounds; 15; 1c Net Value of Personal Estate 1898 pounds; 11; 4 I certify that the foregoing are correct copies of the original Will and Record of Probate thereof deposited in this Registry Dated Exeter the nineteenth day of August 1913...W. H. Bailey District Registrar In the Matter of the Estate of Robert Rew, Deceased In the District Court of the State of Iowa, in and for Mills County In Probate Certificate of Probate of Foreign Will I, Walter S. Brown, Clerk of the above named, hereby certify that on the 20th day of September 1913, the foreign Will of Robert Rew, late of the County of Exeter, and England, to a copy of which, duly authenticated, sealed, attested and certified as by law required, this certificate is annexed, which foreign will was dated July 12, 1890 was on the production before said Court of the copies, authenticated, sealed, attestation and certificate duly admitted to Probate in the State of Iowa, by said Court as and for the last will and testament of said decedent. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the Court named in the caption this 8th day of November 1913....Walter S. Brown, Clerk, by Hattie M. Brown,Deputy