Muskingum County, OH, Wills Vol. 3 Page 7
Lucy W. Hazlett
In the matter of the will of Lucy W. Hazlett, deceased}
September 25th 1869 This day the Last will and testament of Lucy W. Hazlett late of Muskingum County Ohio deceased was produced in writing and duly proved by the oaths of John J. Douglass and Isabella Douglass the attesting and subscribing witnesses thereto whose testimony in this behalf was reduced to writing and duly tiled herein, Therefore it appearing to the court from said testimony that said will was duly executed and attested & that said testatrix Lucy W. Hazlett deceased was the time of the execution of said will of full age Sound mind and memory and free from any restraint. It was ordered by the court that said will be and the same hereby is admitted to Probate and that the same together with this entry be duly recorded.
Will
With a feeling of thankfulness to almighty God who hath continued to me the use of my reason to this time, and with a consciousness of the uncertainty of life and the possibility that death may be very near, with a feeling of submission to his will with whom are the issues of life and death. I desire to express my wishes with regard to the disposition of any temporal affairs. I wish my Son William R. Hazlett to attend to the paying of all my debts and to the entire arrangement and decision of my property in consultation of course my other dear children. Having full confidence in his honesty and integrity of purpose I wish him to discharge these duties without the usual form of giving Security. Further I desire my beloved children to arrange between and among themselves the valuation & disposition of all my personal effects without any appraisement of them by strangers. Let these be divided among themselves or sold as they may think best. Only let all be done with perfect harmony and good feeling. Let there be no unkind thoughts among my dear ones. Strangers can be called upon to appraise real estate. The Stock in the lower or Putnam Bridge which belonged to my mother Mrs. Betsey Reed and is still registered in her name in the Bridge Co. Books I do not claim and never have. It was my mother's wish that her Bridge Stock should be given to my four daughters, and although she left no will her wish was complied with and they have received the proceeds ever since her death. Should there be any notes of hand bearing date later than June 1860, there with all the real estate I inherited from my mother I wish equally divided between my six children, namely Mary Abbot, William R. Hazlett, Elizabeth W. Convers, Lucy R. Hazlett, Margaret Core & George W. Hazlett. My Son John's child William C. Hazlett has the prospect of inheriting a sufficient property from his mother and he is also and equal sharer with my children in all property the little to which was vested in my husband, therefore have I made this arrangement not from any want of affection for him, for he is very dear to me, but from the greater necessities of my children. I wish one hundred dollars given to my niece Mary Wishart as a token of my affection for her. But in case of her dying before me, this amount will revert to my children. Also I desire fifty dollars to be given to Mary Jane Thompson my niece to be applied to the benefit of Lucy Hazlett Thompson, or should Lucy H. Thompson die before me this amount will go to her mother and sisters.
I desire also that one hundred dollars be given to the cause of Missions. That is fifty dollars to the Foreign Committee and fifty dollars to the committee for domestic Missions, and further I desire that no one of my children or grandchildren shall have any account brought against them from my estate for board of any expenses I may have defrayed for them. And now I pray that the blessing of God Almighty the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost may rest upon each and every one of my dear children, children by birth and children by marriage, and upon all my dear grand children, and we may all meet at the Savior's right hand washed in his blood, not one soul missing. Children I entreat you all meet me there.
Signed, Lucy W. Hazlett
John J. Douglass
Isabella Douglass
The State of Ohio}
Muskingum, County}
At the Probate Court held at the office of said court in Zanesville within and for the County aforesaid on the 25th day of September 1869. The last will and testament of Lucy W. Hazlett deceased late of said County was produced in open court in writing and John J. Douglass and Isabella Douglass the attending and subscribing witnesses thereto being duly sworn and examined in open court declared that said testatrix Lucy W. Hazlett deceased was at the time of executing and signing said last will and testament of full age, Sound mind and memory, and free from any restraint that she signed the same in their presence and that they heard her acknowledge said instrument of writing as and for her last will and testament, and that they subscribed their names as witnesses thereto in her presence.
I certify that the foregoing testimony was taken in open court and reduced to writing by me and taken at the time and place specified.
Attest R. W. P. Mure
Probate Judge