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“ (Pin RR MLR NRHN tN Mere in me
es ches tte a
LB THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN
County of Nevada,
State of California, I, Ellen 5 Holbracke of Grass vVall@,
and being of sound and dj ppasing mind end memory
of the age of sixty-three years,
fraud or under the influence of sny person
and not acting under duress, menace,
LL AND TESTAMENT in the Manner
I
whatever,
do make publish and declare this my last W
SS ee eee eee ee
following, that is to say:
my decease my body be decently burried with a due
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‘PIRST, 1 direet that after
t all my just debts be paid.
regard to my situation in life and tha
s of Grass Valley, Nevada Co , SRCONDLY, I devide ana bequeath to John M Thoma
Calif, the Holbrooke { formerly the Holbrooke and HarringtonO Gravel Mining Claim,
situate in Rough and Ready Township, Nevada County, California.
THIRDLY, I devise and bequeath to Mrs Bessie Simonds, of Nevada City, California
the sum of Five Hundred Dollars.
FOURTHLY, I bequeath to John F Connelly at present employed by me in the Holbrok
Hotel, Grass Valley, Culif, the sum of Three hundred dollars.
PIVTHLY: I bequeath to John M Hirsch employed now in said Hotel, the sum of
Two Hundred Dollars.
SIXTHLY, I bequeath to my sister Rebecca Lovejoy, the sum of Five dollars.
SEVENTHLY, E bequeath to my sister of the half blood, Mrs Leah Berry the sum of
Five dollars.
EIGHTHLY, I bequeath to my niece Miss Gertrude Thurston, the sum of Two hundred
dollars, and the box of Silverware, given to me in 1871, by her parents.
NINTHLY, I devise and bequeath to each of my other surviving nieces and nephews
if any me survive, the sum of Five dollars each.
TENTHLY, All the rest and residue of my estate if any, Il direct be used in the
erection of a Mausoleum upon my cemetery lot in Grass Elia: Genet ene. Nevado County, California, to contain the body of my deceased husband and my self
LAST ASTLY, I hereby nominate and appoint P F Simonds, John M Thomas and Paul w
Mitchell the Executors of thi 1
: 111 and Testament, without bonds, and du Ly
>
P PF Simonds as Atty for my Executors and estate, and hereby revoke all former Wills
by me made.
EE Holbrooke ( seal
The foregoing Instrument consi sting of two p ,
*g@S besides this, was at the date
here of, by the saiq Ellen EH Signed and s L ®aled and Publish
i olbrooke
i ed to be, 2 : her last will and Testament, in : ed as, and declar
°° presence resence of yu ;
» and in the pre 8, who at her request, and in
‘al See: Presence of each ather, have Subscribed our names itnes as w :
: : FT Thomas
Residing at Grass Vall ey :
5 , Nevada County, Cali fomia.
E J Morgan
alley,
ac) ee ames Residing at Grass V
y evade County, Cali fornia.
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