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Will of Isaac SUGGS
born	8 Feb 1844  North Carolina
died	16 Nov 1896  Santa Clara County, California

Will:	recorded copy 067 WB-2/364 in Montgomery County, North Carolina

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In the name of God Amen:

I, Isaac SUGGS of Santa Clara County, California, being now of sound 
and disposing mind and memory, but realizing the uncertainties of life 
do hereby make, publish and declare this to be my last will and 
testament, hereby revoking all former wills be me made.  First:  I 
direct that my body be decently buried, and that my just debts be paid. 
Second: I give divise and bequeath to my beloved wife, Martha M. SUGGS, 
all my property both real and personal and mixed, wheresoever situated, 
to be by her heed, had and used during her lifetime hereby giving to 
her a life interest and estate in said property, but whereas I am the 
owner of a certain one hundred acre tract of land in Montgomery County, 
State of North Carolina, I hereby give my said wife full power to sell 
said land whenever she may see proper to do so, without any order of 
court or legal procedure whatsoever, giving her also the power of using 
the proceeds of the sale of sand land in any way she may deem best.  In 
case all of my children shall be of lawful age when my wife shall die, 
or in case my wife shall die before me, then in either of said events, 
I direct that from my estate there shall first be paid to each of my 
following named children to wit: W.G. SUGGS, Van Lee SUGGS, Charles 
SUGGS, George SUGGS, and Lucy J. SUGGS, the sum of $35000 each and that 
thereafter if any surplus shall remain, that the remainder shall be 
divided equally among my children W.G. SUGGS, Van Lee SUGGS, Mary L. 
SUGGS (now Mrs. Claude BRYAN), Charles SUGGS, George SUGGS and Lucy J. 
SUGGS, until each of said children shall have received the aggregate 
sum of one thousand dollars, excepting Mary L. SUGGS, and until she 
shall have received the sum of Six hundred and Fifty dollars and whom I 
have omitted from the first provision for the reason that during my 
life I have advanced to her property of the value of $35000.  After 
each of said children shall have received severally the above specified 
amounts in full, then I direct that the remainder if any be equally 
divided among all my children including my son W.C. SUGGS who has been 
omitted from the foregoing provisions for the reason that during my 
lifetime I have advanced to him property aggregating the value of 
$100000.

In case my wife should die before me or in case she should die before 
all of said children because of age, then in either of said events I 
direct that my estate in California be not divided until all the 
children because of age, but that it  be held intact as a homestead for 
such of said children as shall be under age and until they because of 
age.  I nominate and appoint my wife Martha M. SUGGS, sole Executrix of 
this my last will and testament, she to act without bounds (?), and in 
case of her death I nominate and appoint my son Van Lee SUGGS as sole 
Executor hereof , he to serve without bounds (?).

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 2nd day of 
November A.D. 1894.

		Isaac SUGGS.

Witnesses:  S.G. TOMPKINS residing at San Jose, Calif.
J. Murray PRATT residing at San Jose, Cal.

We, S.G. TOMPKINS and J. Murray PRATT do hereby certify and declare 
that upon the 2d day of November 1894, Isaac SUGGS who made the 
foregoing will declared to each of us that the foregoing was the last 
will and testament, and signed the same in the presence of each of us 
and requested each of us to sign said will as a witness thereunto, and 
at his request we and each of us signed our names thereto as witnesses 
in his presence and in the presence of each other, and that at the time 
of making said will, he, Isaac SUGGS appeared to be of perfectly sound 
mind and memory and not acting under any duress -- Dated this Nov. 2d 
1894.

		S.G. TOMPKINS
		J.M. PRATT

(endorsed filed Dec. 3rd 1896
		Henry A. PFISTER, Clerk
		by T.A. SCHILLING, Deputy Clerk)


In the Superior Court of the County of Santa Clara, State of 
California.

In the matter of the Estate     }
of Isaac SUGGS,                 }       Certificate of Proof of Will
                deceased        }       and facts found.

State of California     }
County of Santa Clara   }       s.s

I, John REYNOLDS, Superior Judge of Santa Clara County, do hereby 
certify on the 18th day of December A.D. 1896, the annexed instrument 
was admitted to probate as the Last Will and Testament of Isaac SUGGS, 
deceased, and from the proofs taken and the examinations had therein, 
the said Court finds as follows:

That said Isaac SUGGS died on or about the day of November A.D. 1896, 
in the County of Santa Clara, State of California, that at the time of 
his death he was a resident of said County of Santa Clara, State of 
California, that the said annexed will was duly executed by the said 
decedent in his lifetime in the County of Santa Clara, State of 
California, and signed he said in testator in the presence of Samuel G. 
TOMPKINS and James Murray PRATT, the subscribing witnesses thereto; 
Also that he acknowledged the execution of the same in their presence 
and declared the same to be his last will and testament, and the said 
witnesses attested the same at his request in his presence and in the 
presence of each other that the said decedent, at the time of executing 
said will, was of the age of eighteen years and upwards, was of sound 
and disposing mind, and not acting under duress, menace, fraud, under 
influence, or misrepresentation, nor in any respect incompetent to 
devise and bequeath his estate.

In witness whereof, I have signed this certificate, and caused the same 
to be attested by the Clerk of said Court, under the seal thereof, this 
18th day of Dec. A.D. 1896.

		John REYNOLDS,
		Superior Judge

( seal of   )   Attest:  Henry A. PFISTER, Clerk
( Superior  )
( Court     )   by N. DECKER, Deputy Clerk

(endorsed)      Filed Dec. 18th A.D. 1896
                Henry A. PFISTER, Clerk
                by N. DECKER, Deputy Clerk

State of California     }
County of Santa Clara   }      s.s

I, Henry A. PFISTER, County Clerk of the County of Santa Clara, State 
of California, and Clerk of the Superior Court in and for said county, 
do hereby certify the annexed to be a true, full and correct copy of 
the original Last Will of Isaac SUGGS, deceased and certificate of 
proof of will and the facts found, now of record and on file in said 
court.  It Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my and affixed the seal 
of said superior court, this 1st day of February A.D. 1898.

(       seal of        )        Henry A. PFISTER, Clerk
(       Superior       )        by J.M. SHILUE, Deputy Clerk
(        Court         )
(   Santa Clara Co.    )
(         Cal.         )


North Carolina         }        In the Superior Court
Montgomery County      }

It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court from the exemplification 
of the record herein of after mentioned  that the last will and 
testament of Isaac SUGGS, deceased, a citizen of Santa Clara County, 
and State of California, has been duly proved and allowed in the proper 
court of Probate of said County and State, according to the laws of 
said State, and it further appearing that the said Isaac SUGGS left 
property in the County of Montgomery, State of North Carolina, it is 
therefore ordered and adjudged that the exemplification of said will 
and its probate in the proper court of Santa Clara County and State of 
California, which has been produced and exhibited here duly certified 
and authenticated, be allowed, filed, and reordered (?) in this Court, 
this 23rd day of February 1898.

		J.S. LEEVIS
		Clerk Superior Court
		of Montgomery County

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Record Collected and
typed by Scott Trimble, 30 March 1995