WILL OF WARREN GOODELL; BIRDSALL, ALLEGANY COUNTY, NEW YORK

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WILL: WARREN GOODELL, 1897/1904

Allegany Co., N.Y., Will Book Vol. 16, pp. 682-683
Will Written 25 December 1897
Probated 17 June 1904


RECORD OF THE WILL OF WARREN GOODELL
    Last Will and Testament
    I, Warren Goodell of the town of Birdsall County of Allegany and state of New York, do
    make, ordain, publish and declare this to be my last Will and Testament, in manner and form
    following, that is to say: First. - I direct the payment of my just debts, if any. Second.
    - I give, devise and bequeath to my sister Olive Dexter of Birdsall, Allegany County, N.Y.,
    all my property, both real and personal of every name and nature, wheresoever the same may
    be situated to be hers absolutely, to do with it as she desires. Likewise, I make,
    constitute and appoint my niece Lizzie Scoville of Birdsall, Allegany County, New York, to
    be my executrix of this my last Will and Testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me
    made. In Witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal, the 25th
    day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety seven.
                           
                                 Warren Goodell      (L.S.)

    The above partly written and partly printed instrument was subscribed by the said Warren
    Goodell, in our presence and acknowledged by him to each of us, and he at the same time
    declared the above instrument, so subscribed by him to be his last Will and Testament: and
    we at his request sign our names as attesting witnesses hereto, in his Presence and in the
    Presence of each other, and write opposite our names our respective places of residence.

                  D. D. Dickson, residing at Angelica, N.Y.
                  Mrs. Lizzie Scoville, residing at Birdsall N.Y.


STATE OF NEW YORK
Allegany County Surrogate's Office    ss

    BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the day of the date hereof, the Last Will and Testament of Warren
    Goodell, late of the town of Birdsall in the County of Allegany and State of New York,
    deceased, being the within and foregoing written instrument, was duly proved before Elta
    Reynolds, Surrogate of the said County, according to law as and for the Last Will and
    Testament of the real and personal estate of the said deceased, which said Last Will and
    Testament, and the proofs and examinations taken thereon are recorded in this office.

(L.S.)    IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, The Surrogate of the said County hath hereunto set his hand and
                      affixed his seal of office, this 17th day of June A.D. 1904 
          Elta Reynolds
          Surrogate of Allegany County


Proof of Will
                 Surrogate's Court -- County of Allegany

In the Matter of Proving the Last Will and Testament of
      Warren Goodell

                           Deceased

ALLEGANY COUNTY, SS.
     Dawson D. Dickson and Lizzie Humphrey being first duly sworn in open Court, each for
     himself, doth depose and say, that he is a subscribing witness to the last Will and
     Testament of Warren Goodell late of town of Birdsall in the County of Allegany and State
     of New York         deceased And these deponents do further say that the said Warren
     Goodell deceased, did, in the presence of each of these deponents subscribe his name at
     the end of the instrument in writing, which is now here shown to these deponents, and
     which purports to be the last Will and Testament of the said deceased, and which bears
     date on the 25th day of December one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.  That said
     deceased died on or about the 3rd day of February, 1904, at Birdsall, Allegany County, New
     York That said the decased did, at the time of subscribing his name to the said instrument
     as aforesaid, declare the same to be his last Will and Testament; and these deponents did
     respectively subscribe their own names at the end of said instrument, as attesting
     witnesses to the execution thereof, each at the request of the said deceased, and in his
     presence, and in the presence of each other: That the said deceased, at the time of so
     subscribing his name to said instrument as aforesaid, and publishing said instrument as
     aforesaid was of full age; that he appeared to be, and deponents believe he was of sound
     mind, memory and understanding, and not under any restraint, and, as deponents verily
     believe, in all respects competent to devise real estate; that each of these deponents saw
     the other sign his name to the said instrument in the presence of the said deceased, and
     the said Lizzie Humphrey says, further that she is the same person as Lizzie Scoville
     whose name is attached to said Will as witness thereto.

   Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 17th day of June 1904.

                                       D. D. Dickson
                                       Lizzie Humphrey

Elta Reynolds
     Surrogate of Allegany County

(Transcribed by Mary C. Smith from a photocopy of the will and probate record.)