Wills of Cascade County Great Falls, Montana Volumes One & Three
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WILLS OF CASCADE COUNTY GREAT FALLS, MONTANA VOLUMES ONE & THREE No record has been found of the Volume two of the Wills of Cascade County, Montana. Retyped by Thelma L. Marshall indexed by Eddie Josey-Wilson and Evan Heisel Great Falls Genealogy Society Great Falls, Montana April 1996 ABSTRACTS OF WILLS CASCADE COUNTY, MONTANA 1884-1909 VOLUME 1 BLACK EAGLE CHAPTER DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION GREAT FALLS, MONTANA ABSTRACTS OF WILLS CASCADE COUNTY; MONTANA VOLUME 1 ABSTRACTS OF WILLS CASCADE COUNTY, MONTANA BLACK EAGLE CHAPTER DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION GREAT FALLS, MONTANA COPIED BY: Mrs. Lou Siniff Mrs. Theodore Cox Miss Ella Nelson Miss Grace Collins Grace Dutton Collins, State Chairman 1 951 - 1952 RICHARD WRIGHT of Fairfield St., Philadelphia, U.S.A. DATED: 3 Sep. 1888 WIFE: Elizabeth WRIGHT FATHER: James Wright SISTERS: Charlotte Wright, Rebecca Wright (wife of James Wright)Maria Moore (wife of J.W. MOORE). BROTHERS: William, Arthur, late brother Edmund EXECUTORS: Brother Arthur Wright, Wife Elizabeth Wright and sister Charlotte Wright. WITNESSES: S. Harlan Price and Wm.H. Walker. "Should I die in England I wish to be buried in the lot beside my father and mother, in the cemetery at Oday, Yorkshire in England. If I die away from England I wish a stone to be erected on this lot giving my birth and death dates." JAMES STONE of Great Falls, Cascade County, Montana. DATED: 27 March 1891 HEIR: In view of the fact that Thomas E. Brady has loaned me large sums of money and cared for me during this my last illness I bequeath to him all my properties, chattels and debts. He shall be sole executor to serve without bond. My homestead, south west quarter of the south west quarter of Section eleven (11) and the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter and the north half of the southeast quarter of Section ten (10) in Township number nineteen (19) North on Range three (3) east. EXECUTOR: Thomas E. Brady WITNESSES: F. Geo. Held Great Falls, Montana F.B. Gallagher Great Falls, Montana THOMAS L. GORHAM Town of Cascade, Cascade Co., Montana. DATE: 5 August 1890 PROBATED: 23 May 1891 DAUGHTERS: Mrs. Sarah F. Archer of Butte, MT; Lela V. Roberts of Cascade, Montana. WIFE: Sarah A. Gorham BROTHER: Richard T. Gorham EXECUTORS Richard Gorham and Sarah A. Gorham. : George Stine (Stull), Cascade, MT. WITNESSES : John P. Dyas Great Falls, Montana Lot number twelve (12) in block number eight (8), in the town of Cascade. Thomas L. Gorham died on or about the 23rd April 1891 in Cascade County, Montana at the time of executing said will, he was 61 years or upwards. JAMES STEWART TOO of Great Falls, Montana DATE: 26 June 1891 PROBATED: 26 July 1891 BROTHER: J. Kennedy Tod, banker in the city of New York' EXECUTORS: J. Kennedy Tod and Edward William Kelly of Great Falls. WITNESSES: Robert J. Williams, Ed. W. Kelly, & A.E. Dickerson. J. JONATHAN GOON Cascade County, Montana DATE: 29 Jan. 1891 WIFE: Barbary Goon DAUGHTERS: Celia Rumsey, wife of Paul Rumsey SONS: Charles, Frank, Oscar, & Rufus. EXECUTORS: William P. Beachley, Ephraim M. Mitchell WITNESSES James P. Lewis, J.B. Newman, N.C. Randall, (all of Great : Falls, Montana. West half of the Southwest quarter and the west half of the northwest quarter of section 34, Township 20, N R 4 East in cascade County, Montana. DAVID RUSSELL MITCHELL of Great Falls, Montana DATED: 29 July 1891 PROBATED: 26 Oct. 1891 WIFE: Rena Mitchell EXECUTORS: Rev. Empson Cory, George Bridge of Great Falls, Montana WITNESSES: J. McCallum, Jas. Johnson, Herbert MacBeth. WILLIAM M. HEALY of sun River, Cascade County, Montana DATED: 24 Oct. 1891 PROBATED: 30 Nov. 1891 WIFE: May M. Healy William Micheal Healy died 20 oct. 1891 EXECUTORS: WITNESSES: Arthur W. Delaney, Arthur B. Stone. AUGUSTA M. BRINK Great Falls, Montana DATED: 16 July 1891 PROBATED: 23 Jan. 1892 HEIRS: Children of my brother: Peter Erick Brink who reside in Lunby Tielenix, Enkoping, Sweden. EXECUTORS: Arthur E. Dickenson, Daniel Tracy. WITNESSES: Don L. Willard, Ed W. Kelly. CATHERINE LAMMBEIN of Wolfe Creek, Cascade Co., Montana DATED: 28 May 1891 HEIR: Sister May Amadeus (Sarah Theresa Dunn) EXECUTORS: Mrs. Thomas Moran, Mrs. Mary Moran WITNESSES: Kate Smith, Micheal Smith, John Hunter, all residing in St. Peter's Mission, Cascade County, Montana. JOSEPH W. CLARK Of Boston, Massachusetts & Pomfret, CT DATED: 29 Sep. 1873 PROBATED: 20 June 1892 WIFE: Eleanor Arnold Clark CODICIL dated 8 February 1889, mentions children EXECUTORS: Charles Van Brunt and Edward Sterges of Boston. WITNESSES: John w. McBurney, S.A. Dix, Wm, T. Kennedy WITNESSES TO CODICIL: Florence Angell, Katie R. Daily, and Margaret J. Collins JAMES COYLE of Sand coulee, Cascade County, Montana DATED: 20 July 1892 PROBATED: 27 Aug. 1892 HEIR: Nelson Holbrook of Hoosak Falls, New York EXECUTORS: John Burke and Thomas Wheeler WITNESSES: Charles McGrady & Micheal Hunt of Great Falls, Montana. NAPOLEON BONNIE Cascade County, Montana DATED: 3 Sep. 1892 PROBATED: 15 Oct. 1892 BROTHER: Isadore Bonnie "I being 45 years of age and unmarried" EXECUTORS: William J. Delaney WITNESSES: Alfred G. Ladd, M.D. and William R. Gety of Great Falls, Cascade County, Montana. TIMOTHY McCARTHY Grafton, Cascade Co., Montana DATED: 2 Dec. 1892 PROBATED: 1 April 1893 WIFE: Mary E.McCarthy SISTER: Mary McNamara of Michigan BROTHER'S CHILDREN: Charles, Florence and Katie Bridget McCarthy. My deceased brother's wife Mary McCarthy, all living in Geyser, Montana. EXECUTOR: Silas A. Beachley WITNESSES: Thomas E. Brady, Hormidas Gravel of Great Falls. -8- MRS. DELLA STRONG Cascade, Cascade County, Montana DATED: 10 Feb. 1891 DAUGHTER: Mrs. Nellie M. Wyatt SON: Byron F. Strong GRANDCHILDREN: Miss Maude Wyatt and Master Frank Wyatt of Fresno, California. Miss Pearl Strong and Frankie Strong of Helena, Montana. "Put in proper condition my burial place and the burial place of Walter G. Strong." EXECUTORS: Robert Vahgn, Matt Dunn of Great Falls WITNESSES: John H. Craig and Nannie L. Wright. DAVID H. CHURCHILL Great Falls, Montana DATED: 15 Nov. 1886 PROBATED: 12 Aug. 1893 WIFE: Mary S. Churchill BROTHER: Thomas A. Churchill EXECUTOR: Thomas A. Churchill WITNESSES: Charles D. Hord. MACK J. LEAMING Great Falls, Montana DATED: 11 Mar. 1893 PROBATED: 5 Sep. 1893 WIFE: Louisa F. Learning SONS: Alexander D. Learning (a minor), Mack Kneedler Learning, and Herbert W. Learning. DAUGHTERS: Mary Mastilda Learning and Nellie L. Church. SISTER: Chany L. Wignall of LaPorte) Indiana. "To my son Herbert, my parchment certificate of membership in the Military Order of Loyal Legion of the United States signed by General Sheridan ... and my gold insigna of said order. To my son Mack Kneedler, my cavalry sabre that I carried at the battle of Nashville, Tenn. December 15 & 16, 1884. EXECUTORS: Fred C. Poole of Grafton, Montana. WITNESSES: -9-- JAMES BARBOUR NEWMAN, JR. Great Falls, Montana DATED: 17 June 1893 PROBATED: 27 Oct. 1893 WIFE: Fannie T. Newman DAUGHTERS: Alice and Lillie G. EXECUTOR: Fannie T. Newman WITNESSES: Lawrence R. Fortune, William F. Burgy, F. Geo. Hudt. FREDERICKA EGLOFF Great Falls, Montana DATED: 21 Nov. 1893 DAUGHTERS: Bertha Egloff, Anna Rohde (wife of Emil Rohde of Milwaukee, Wis.) Sarah Jonas (wife of Frank W. Jonas of Madison, Wis.) SONS: August and Paul EXECUTOR: Bertha Egloff WITNESSES: Alfred G. Ladd of Great Falls, MT, Earnest W. Ringwald of Sweet Grass, Montana. JULIA ANNA PRICE Sun River, Cascade County, Montana DATED: 19 Nov. 1889 DAUGHTER: Mrs. Julia Ellen Murray "I make no provision for any other of my children or any child which may hereinafter be born." EXECUTOR: Julia Ellen Murray WITNESSES: William Ulm of Dodge County. Byne A. Robertson of Sun River. JAMES B. CULLEY Cascade County, Montana DATED: 16 Jan. 1892 FATHER: John Culley MOTHER: Julia B. Culley BROTHERS: Jesse E. Culley, Levi Strong Culley, Thomas Culley and Newton Culley. SISTERS: Hetty Jane Culley, Nancy Ellen Culley. Annie Belle Lee and Bessie Lee, daughters of James T. Lee. Ellen Lee (wife of James T. Lee). EXECUTORS: James T. Lee WITNESSES: James P. Lewis, Will Hanks, Charles P. Welt. HERBERT P. ROLFE Great Falls, Montana DATED: 1 Sep. 1890 WIFE: Martha E. Rolfe also children EXECUTOR: Martha E. Rolfe WITNESSES: Silas A. Beachley. JOHN MADDEN Geyser, Cascade County, Montana DATED: 6 Aug. 1895 SISTER: Agnes Kenny EXECUTORS: WITNESSES: M.L. Lynch & Micheal Byrnes, both of Geyser. EDWARD LIPPINCOTT of Florence, Lewis & Clark County, MT DATED: 21 Nov. 1884 WIFE: Agnes A. Lippincott EXECUTOR: Agnes A. Lippincott WITNESSES Frank P. Stirling, Rudolf Van Tobel, both of Lewis and : Clark County, Territory of Montana. ELIZABETH JANE BENOIT Cascade County, Montana DATED: 18 May 1896 HUSBAND: Joseph Alphonse Benoit EXECUTOR Joseph Alphonse Benoit : William J. Merrit, Fred Laftain, J.W. Williams, WITNESSES: all of Barker, Montana. Cascade County, Montana GEORGE TIDDLE 2 Jan. 1897 DATED: Samuel Tiddle FATHER: "expense of sending my body to (not legible) Ontario, for burial". Dr. R.T.R. Gordon EXECUTOR: William G. Downing & William M. Cockrill. WITNESSES: EDGAR G. MACLAY Great Falls, Montana DATED: 15 Dec. 1895 WIFE: Blanche M. Maclay DAUGHTER: Theodora Maclay SON: Edgar Maclay BUSINESS PARTNER: John T. Murphy EXECUTOR: John T. Murphy WITNESSES: W.T. Pigott & W.P. Wren THOMAS CORBALLY Great Falls, Montana DATED: 1 Dec. 1894 "I am unmarried and 48 years old." COUSIN: Mary Agnes Corbally of Poughkeepsie, NY BROTHERS: Pat Corbally and John Corbally of New York City, and John's son Thomas. SISTERS: Catherine Logan and Mary Walsh. EXECUTORS: P.J. Regan, S.H. Fletcher, & Thomas Vincund Corbally. WITNESSES: MATTHEW FURNELL Great Falls, Montana DATED: 25 April 1896 WIFE: Della M. Furnell SONS: George Ray Furnell, age 13 years, Albert M. Furnell, age 11 years.