klingler genealogy report - Lutheranrose

OF OHIO BEING WEAK IN BODY BUT OF SOUND AND PERFECT MIND AND
MEMORY
AND BLESSED BE ALMIGHTY GOD FOR THE SAME DO MAKE AND PUBLISH THIS
MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT IN MANNER AND FORM FOLLOWING. THAT IS
TO SAY FIRST I GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY BELOVED WIFE KATHERINE
ELIZABETH KLINGLER ALL THE MOVABLE PROPERTY OF MY ESTATE REAL OR
PERSONAL SO LONG AS SHE LIVES BUT IN CASE SHE SHOULD MARRY WHILE
THE PROPERTY REMAINING IN HER HANDS SHE MUST BE BOUND TO GIVE UP
ALL BUT HER BED AND PRESENT CROP THAT IS NOW GROWING. SHE IS TO
HAVE ONE THIRD PART FOR HER SUPPORT AND WHOEVER SHALL RENT THE
FARM
SHALL BE BOUND TO KEEP THE FARM IN GOOD REPAIR AND THE BUILDINGS
UNDER COVER AND SHALL BE PAID OUT OF THE RENT OF SAID FARM.
I DO ALSO GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY SECOND SON FREDERICK KLINGLER
MY LAND BY HIM PAYING TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS AT THE DEATH
OF
MY WIFE PROVIDED THE LAND SHOULD NOT BE LOST, AND IF THE LAND IS
NOT GAINED JOHN AND SUSAN GET NOTHING. I DO ALSO GIVE AND
BEQUEATH
TO MY ELDEST SON JOHN KLINGLER ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS. I ALSO GIVE
AND BEQUEATH TO MY YOUNGEST DAUGHTER SUSAN KLINGLER ONE
HUNDRED AND
FIFTY DOLLARS. I DO ALSO GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY YOUNGEST SON
PETER KLINGLER TWO DOLLARS. I ALSO GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY
ELDEST DAUGHTER ELIZABETH TWO DOLLARS AND I DO HEREBY APPOINT MY
WIFE SOLE EXECUTRIX OF THIS MY LAST WILL BY ME MADE IN WITNESS
WHEREOF I HAVE UNTO SET MY HAND AND SEAL THE SECOND DAY OF JULY IN
THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND AND EIGHT, 1818.
SIGNED SEALED AND DELIVERED BY THE ABOVE NAMED JOHN KLINGLER TO
BE
HIS LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT IN THE PRESENCE OF US WHO HAVE HERE
UNTO SUBSCRIBED OUR NAMES AS WITNESS IN THE PRESENCE OF THE
TESTATOR.
JOHN ROGERS
ELIZABETH ROGERS
PROVED AND ORDERED FOR RECORD NOVEMBER 4, 1818"
(PLEASE NOTE THAT IN THE NEXT TO LAST PARAGRAPH THE YEAR IS WRITTEN
ONE THOUSAND AND EIGHT, 1818. THIS IS EXACTLY AS WRITTEN BY HAND
IN THE ORIGINAL WILL. IT SEEMS OBVIOUS THAT THIS WAS MEANT TO READ
EIGHTEEN RATHER THAN EIGHT BUT WAS JUST MISS WRITTEN AND THE
ERROR
WAS MISSED)
SUSAN KLINGLER (#268) MARRIED JOHN SELVAGE IN CLERMONT COUNTY,
OHIO
4/13/1820 WHICH WAS JUST PRIOR TO THE CENSUS OF 1820.
IN 1820 BOTH FREDERICK KLINGLER (#271) AND PETER KLINGLER (#272)
WERE LIVING IN WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP OF CLERMONT COUNTY. IT
APPEARS
FREDERICK HAD ASSUMED CHARGE OF THE FARM AND WAS LIVING THERE
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