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    1. [ILGRUNDY] Thomas, Amanda
    2. This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Thomas, Ferguson Classification: Will Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wg.2ADE/1496 Message Board Post: WILL OF MRS. JUDGE THOMAS On the 27th day of November, Mrs. Amanda Thomas made the following will; She ordered and directed her executor Charles D. Ferguson, to pay all debts, and funeral expenses, and as soon after decease as convenient to carry out the following details of her will; A brick vault to be built the same as that of her husband, with head and footstones of Scotch granite to mark both graves. That the remains of her late mother and sister Mrs. L. Shaw be removed from their present resting place and placed in the family lot here. To the trustees of the Morris cemetery association $200 with which to care for the cemetery lot. All her earthly belongs were bequeathed as follows: To John E. Thomas, her late husband’s brother of Williamsport, PA $2,000; to Bird and James Thomas, brothers of her late husband, $500; to Annie Thomas, daughter of J.E. Thomas $500; to her brother C.D. Ferguson $4,000, and the sole use and benefit of the 90 acre farm at Peter’s Ford; to her nephew Fred C. Ferguson $2,000; to Fred C. Ferguson and his heirs her dwelling house and lot together with the household furniture therein not otherwise disposed of; to Fred C. Ferguson an additional $200 with which to repair the house and lot; to Harry M. Ferguson, $2000; to Eugene Ray Ferguson, $2000; to S.D. Ferguson $300; to her sister, Amelia Riddle, $100; to Annie E. Ferguson $100, and also her ???; to Elizabeth ??eoker, $100; to Florence Ann Partridge, Canada, $100, to Myra Ferguson, wife of S.D. Ferguson, $100; to Blaney Commandery, Morris, her late husband’s picture, framed in gold; to Annie E. Ferguson! , all her diamonds, jewelry, and watch trinkets to be divided as she thinks best; to C.D. Ferguson, Fred C. Ferguson and Eugene Ray Ferguson equal portions of the residue of her entire estate. Morris Daily Herald, December 6, 1893 Typed by Kathleen Berner Groll

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