This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lambert Classification: Will Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nk.2ADI/833 Message Board Post: Lambert, Asahel I, Asahel Lambert of lawful age and of sound and disposing mind and memory, do hereby make publish and declare this to be my last will and testament. I direct that my just debts and funeral expenses be first paid out of my estate. I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Missouri Lambert all property of every name and nature of which I may die seized or to which I may die entitled, meaning and intending hereby to give her title in fee simple to all real estate and the absolute ownership of all personal property. No provision is made in this my will for my adopted daughter Eva Lambert because I know well the full affection my wife bears to her and prefer to leave to the affection and good judgment of my wife such care and provision for Eva as she shall deem right and just. I hereby nominate and appoint my wife Missouri Lambert as my executrix to carry out the provisions of this my will and respectfully ask that she not be required to give bond for the faithful performance of her duties as such. In testimony hereof I do hereby subscribe my name this 12th day of January 1901. Signed...Asahel Lambert On this 12th day of January 1901, at Glenwood, Iowa, Asahel Lambert signed the foregoing instrument in our presence and to us at the time declared the same to be his last will and at his request and in his presence and in the presence of each other we subscribe ourselves as witnesses to same. Shirley Gillilland R. W. Greenlee