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State of California
County of Sonoma } |
Probate Court
Sonoma County |
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To Cynthia Adaline Cockrill, Amanda
Ellen Cockrill, Robert Bruce Cockrill, Charles Morgan Cockrill, Mary Melvina
Cockrill, Eliza Levina Cockrill and Jeannette Cockrill, Greetings.
You are hereby notified to appear at the court house,
in the Town of Santa Rosa on Monday the 9th day of March A.D. 1857 at one
o'clock P.M. and show cause if any you have, where the Last Will and Testament
of Harrison Cockrill, Deceased, should not be admitted to Probate; and why
letters [?] Testamentary should not issue to [?] Ruhana Cockrill, Widow of the
said Harrison Cockrill, Deceased. She having filed an Instrument in the Probate
Court, purporting to be the last will and Testament of the said decedant[?],
and, also her petition for letters testamentary on said Estate
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Done by order of the Probate Court
Witness my signature and
Seal of the Probate Court on
This 19th day of Feb 1857.
N. McC. Menefee Clerk of
the Probate Court
By
Jack Miller, Deputy. |
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This deponent further says, that the
said Harrison Cockrill at the time he so executed the said instrument was a
Citizen of the United States, of full age, of sound mind and memory, in all
respects competent to devise estate and not under restraint and that this
deponent saw N. McC Menefee and J. C. Cockrill of the County of Sonoma, sign
the said instrument at the [?] and thereof as witnesses in the presence of the
said Harrison Cockrill and at his request. Deponent further states that at the
time of the execution of this instrument now shown to the deponent.
The said Harrison Cockrill, dec'd was of sound and
disposing mind and not under restraint, undue influence or fraudulent
misrepresentation. |
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A. B. Ingram
Subscribed and sworn
to in open court
this
9th day of March A.D. 1857
Attest N. McC. Menefee, Clerk
by Jack Miller, Deputy. |
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