This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3h.2ADE/2144 Message Board Post: LAST WILL & TESTAMENT OF WILLIAM HANCOCK SR., DECEASED Date: Dec. 20, 1864 I, William Hancock Sr. of the County of Floyd and State of Indiana, being of sound mind and memory, do hereby make, publish and declare this to be my last Will and Testament. Viz: After all my lawful debts are paid and discharged, the balance of my property, both real and personal I give and bequeath and devise to my beloved sister Jane Hancock. My lands and all my the appurtenances thereto belonging, lying in Franklin Township, Floyd County Indiana, being Fifty acres more or less. Also all my monies, household, kitchen, furniture, or in other words, all both real and personal. Likewise, I make, constitute and appoint Isaiah Hancock Executor of this my Last Will and Testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and seal this the 21st day of December, 1864. Government Stamps $2.50 } Signed William Hancock Sr. (SEAL) Signed, sealed and published by the said William Hancock Sr. as his last Will & Testament in the presence of us, who at the request of said Wm. Hancock Sr. and in his presence and in the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names and respective places of residence as witnesses. Signed, Thomas Burgess, Floyd County, Indiana Wm. Z. Aydelotte, Floyd County, Indiana. State of Indiana, Floyd County I, William Z. Aydelotte being duly sworn on oath says that the foregoing last Will & Testament of William Hancock Sr. late of said County, deceased, was duly executed by said testator, that at the time of executing the same he was entirely competent to devise his property, and was not under any coercion or under influence whatever, and that the same was subscribed by him said Affiant and Thomas Burgess as attesting witnesses to said Will, in the presence and at the request of said testator, and in the presence of each other, and that the same was executed by said testator in their presence and further says not. Signed, William Z. Aydelotte Subscribed, and sworn to before me the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Floyd County, Indiana. Dec. 29th 1864. Signed W. W. Tuley, Clerk State of Indiana, Floyd County }ss. I, William W. Tuley, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Floyd County, hereby certify that the foregoing last Will and Testament of William Hancock Sr. ,late of said County, deceased, was this day admitted to probate, that its due execution was this day duly proven by William Z. Aydelotte one of the attesting witnesses, who proof together with such Will have been duly recorded in page 3 and 4 of the Record of Wills in Our Office. Witness my hand and the seal of the said Court affixed at New Albany, this 29th day of December 1864. Signed, W.W. Tuley. Clerk