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Surnames: McCartney Higgenbotham Crockett Thomas
Classification: Will
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Book "B"-Hardin County, Iowa
As copied at the Hardin County Courthouse, Eldora, Iowa
McCartney, Benjamin F, will dated 25 Dec 1856. Of St Joseph County, Indiana. To the 6
children of my brother Nathanial [Nathaniel] McCartney, late of Oregon Territory,
deceased, William Henry, Mary Louisa, Benjamin Franklin, Albert, John and the youngest
whose name is unknown to me [Thomas Nathaniel McCartney]; my niece Mary Jane Higgenbottam
[Mary Jane (Egbert) Higgenbotham], wife of Dr. Samuel Higgenbotham, my neice Mary Minerva
Crockett, they the daughters of Harrison M Crockett and my sister Gabrilla Crockett and to
Martha Ann Crockett, daughter of Harrison M Crockett by a former wife now deceased but no
blood relative of mine; to the children of my deceased brother William; Hiram McCartney
and Eliza Jane, she now married but the name of her husband I do not recollect; to Henry
Thomas, son of Ezekiel Thomas and his wife Mary, my deceased sister. Witnesses: Jno
Harpey, John T Lindsey, Wm Rockman and James Davis. Executor: friend, William G Whitman.
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ia/hardin/wills/willbookB.txt
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