Will Records
Probate Court
Wood Co., OH
Transcribed from photocopy of microfilm records (roll # 172, images # 366-369) found at the Archives Collection, Jerome Library, Bowling Green state University, Bowling Green, Wood Co., Oh (photocopy in possession of author).The State of Ohio In Probate Court
Wood County, ss Record of procedings had by and before the Probate Court of Wood County, Ohio in relation to the last will and testament of John BERLEKAMP late of this County deceased, at a session of said Court begun and held at the Court house in Bowling Green on the 20th day of March 1893 on which day the following order and Journal Entry was made:In the matter of the last Probate Court Wood County
will and testament March 20, 1893
of
John BerlekampThis day an instrument of writing purporting to be the last will and testament of John BERLEKAMP late of Freedom Township in this County, deceased, was produced in open Court for Probate: On consideration whereof it is ordered that said will be filed in this Court, and that due notice thereof, and the application to admit the same to probate and record be, given to the widow and next of kin of the testator residents ofOhio, that said application will be for hearing before this Courton the 8th day of April 1893 at 10 o'clock A.M. And it appearing to the Court that H BEIMDICK one of the subscribing witnesses to said will is infirm, feeble in health and unable to attend Court, it is therein ordered that a commission, with the will annexed, issue herein to J.H. Schroeder of Pemberville, O. directing him to take the testimony of said subscribing witness and return the same according to law with all convienent speed, to this Court.
Guy C. NEARING Probate Judge
Said will is in the words and figures following:
In the name of the benevolent father of all I, John BERLEKAMP of lawful age and sound memory of Freedom Township Wood County Ohio do make and publish this my last will and Testament.Item 1st: I give and bequeath to my daughter Catrina M. KOHRING and her heir twelve hundred and sixty seven ($1267.00) dollars which my daughter Mary HUMMEL is to pay to her commencing one year after my death in payments of one hundred and fifty dollars per year till all paid without interest she already has received $ 427 so the total of her share is $ 1694.00.
Item 2nd: I give and bequeath to my daughter Christine V. GERWIN and her heirs Thirteen hundred and seventy $ 1370.00 - dollars which my daughter Mary HUMMEL shall pay to her commencing one year after my death in payments of one hundred and fifty dollars $ 150.00 each till all paid without interest, she has already received $ 324.00 so the total of her share is $ 1694.00.
Item 3rd: I give and bequeath to my daughter Eliza HAGEMEYER and her heirs fourteen hundred and fifty seven ($ 1457.00) dollars which my daughter Mary HUMMEL shall pay to her commencing one year after my death in yearly payments of one hundred fifty dollars each ($ 150.00) till all paid without interest, she has already received Two hundred and thirty seven $ 237.00 so the total of her share is
$ 1694.00.Item 4th: I give and devise to my youngest daughter Mary HUMMEL and her heir in far simle the farm on which I now reside containing in all one hundred and twenty (120) acres of land situated in Freedom Township Wood County, Ohio in section thirty two and being on record in my name, in the recorders office of Wood County Ohio. She however i consideration thereof shall pay to the rest of my heirs as hereuntofore stated the sum of forty hundred and ninety four $ 4094.00. It is further my will that if any personal property is left after my just debts are paid and my funeral expenses are paid and a suitable Tomb stone are put on my grave. That the balance of my personal property be equally divided between all my heirs. And if it should happen that there should not be enough of my personal property to pay all my debts and other expenses. That all my heirs shall pay an equal share out of the property willed to them.
Iten 5th: I do hereby nominate and appoint John H Meuter Executor of this my last will and testament, and I do hereby empower him to collect all claims due me, and I desire that no appraisement and no sale of my personal property be made and that the same be omitted in pursuance of the statute. In testimony hereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 23rd day of July in the year A.D. 1891.
John BERLEKAMP SEAL
Signed and acknowledged by said John BERLEKAMP as his last will and testament in our presence andsigned by us in his presence
Witnesses H. BEIMDICK
John H. MEUTER
Thereupon on April 8th 1893 the testimony was taken as follows:
The State of Ohio In Probate Court
Wood County ss Personally appeared in open Court John H. MEUTER one of the subsribing witnesses to the last will and testament of John BERLEKAMP late of Freedom township in said Wood County, deceased; who being duly sworn according to law to speak the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth in relation to the execution of said will, deposes and says: That the paper before him bearing date the 23rd day of July A.D. 1891 purporting to be the last will and testament of John BERLEKAMP now deceased, is the will of said deceased. That one H BEIMDICK and this deponent were present at the execution of said will, and at the request of the testator respectfully subscribed their names to the same as witnesses, in his presence; that they saw the said John BERLEKAMP deceased sign and seal said will and heard him acknowledge the same to being his last will and testament and that the said John BERLEKAMP at the time of making signing and sealing said will, was of full age, of sound mind and memory, and not under any restraint. This deponent further says: that said H. BEIMDICK whose signature is attached to said will as a witness, was present at the execution of said will and signed his name thereto in the presence of the deponent and that said H. BEIMDICK has since died.
J.H. MEUTER
Sworn to and subscribed by said witness, in open Court this 8th day of April A.D. 1893
Guy C NEARING Probate Judge
The State of Ohio
Wood County ss:
Lewis BEIMDICK being duly sworn says that he was well acquainted with H. BEIMDICK who is now deceased, that he was well acquainted with the hand writing of the said H. BEIMDICK, having seen him write, that the signature H. BEIMDICK as subscribing witness to the Last Will and Testament of John BERLEKAMP, deceased, is in the own proper handwriting and signature of the said H. BEIMDICK, who at the date of said will was in full life, and resided in Freedom Township in said County
Lewis BEIMDICK
Sworn to before me, and subscribed in my presence, this eighth day of April A.D. 1893
Guy C NEARING Probate Judge
Therupon on April 8th 1893
In the matter of the
last will and Testament
of
John BERLEKAMP
The following order was made herein Probate Court Wood County. April 8th 1893
Be it remembered that heretofore to wit: on the 20th day of March 1893, an instrument of writing purporting to be the last will and testament of John BERLEKAMP late of Freedom Township in this county deceased, was produced in open Court for probate and was then filed. And it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that said testator died leaving no widow, and that notice of the filing of said will, and the application to admit the same to probate and record in this Court has been given to all the next of kin of the testator pursuant to law and the former order of tis Court. And the commission heretofore issued herein to take the testimony of H BEIMDICK one of the subscribing witnesses to the will of said John BERLEKAMP, deceased, having been this day returned unexecuted. And it appearing that said H. BEIMDICK one of the subscribing witnesses to said will, is now deceased. Thereupon Lewis BEIMDICK appeared in open Court and was duly sworn and examned according to law, touching the genuineness of the signature of the said H. BEIMDICK attached to said will, and his testimony thereon was reduced to writing and filed. And it appearing to the Court from the testimony so taken that the aforesaid instrument of writing is the will of said deceased, that the said will was duly executed and attested, and that at the time of executing the same the testator was of full age and of sound mind and memory, and not under any restraint, the Court now admit the said will to probate and order the same together with the testimony so taken, to be recorded according to the statute in such cases made and provided.
Guy C NEARING Probate Judge