This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DeLashmutt Classification: Will Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nk.2ADI/846 Message Board Post: DeLashmutt, W. E. I, Wesley E. DeLashmutt, of Mills County, Iowa, do hereby make, publish and declare this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me made; That is to say: 1st I direct my executrix hereinafter named to pay all my just debts existing at the time of death, including the expenses of my last sickness and burial, as soon after my death is practical. 2nd Subject to the payment directed in the preceding paragraph, I give, will, devise and bequeath to my beloved wife Clara DeLashmutt all the property of which I may die seized and possessed, or to which I may be entitled, for the period of her natural life, she to enjoy the use, occupancy, rents and profits of the same during her life. And at her death; (nothing more here) 3rd I give, will, devise and bequeath all of my property to my children in equal parts; and if any of my children should die before my death leaving issue, then said issue shall take and receive the portion that would have gone to their deceased parent; and if any of my children should die before my death, without issue, then such part that would have gone to such deceased child or children, shall be divided equally among the surviving children, or their children, as above provided. I nominate and appoint my said wife, Clara DeLashmutt, Executrix of this my last will and testament, and request that she be exonerated from giving bond for the faithful performance of her duties. Dated and signed this 20th day of September 1916 Signed Wesley E. DeLashmutt, Testator Witness Jessie DeLashmutt F. A. Hammand We the undersigned, hereby certify that the above and foregoing instrument was signed by Wesley E. De Lashmutt in our presence and by him declared to be his last will and testament and that we, at his request, in his presence and in the presence of each other, have subscribed our names as witness thereto. Jessie De Lashmutt of Pacific Junction, IA F. A. Hammond of Glenwood, IA