Will of Emma Aiken
submitted by Judy Tooman
March 5, 2000

Will of Emma Aiken, Hamilton Co., Ohio
                                     No. 48340       Filed September 20, 1899
                      Admitted to Probate September 20, 1899, Vol 76, Page 219

                          In the name of the Benevolent Father of All-Amen-
I, EMMA AIKEN being of sound and disposing mind and memory but mindful of the uncertainty of life and desiring to make such disposition of my estate as seems best to me do make publish, declare this my last will and testament.

                                                           Item First
I will and direct that all just debts against me at my decease, and that my funeral expenses be paid.

                                                         Item Second
I give and bequeath to my mother ELLEN COSBEY all my household goods, including silverware and clothing etc.

                                                          Item Third
I give devise and bequeath to my beloved husband THOMAS ELMER AIKEN his heirs and assigns forever, all my undivided interest in the remainder estate of the 205 acre farm, given devised and bequeathed to me in Item Sixth of the last will and testament of SAMUEL M. COSBEY deceased said will and testament being recorded in Volume 59 page 540 Probate Records of Hamilton County, Ohio or, it is my intention to give devise and bequeath to my husband THOMAS ELMER AIKEN, his heirs and assigns forever all my right title and interest in the 205 acre farm on which my mother ELLEN COSBEY now resides and in which she has a life interest.

                                                          Item Fourth
I do hereby authorize and empower my executor to sell the following described real estate, which I now hold and own in fee simple:
Situate in Section 14, Town 4, Range 1, Miami Purchase Hamilton County Ohio and described and bounded as follows to wit   Beginning in the center of the Plainfield Turnpike at the corner of land owned by NATHANIEL DENMAN  Thence north 69 3/4 degrees East 4.83 chains thence north 5 degrees 21’ West 9-88 chains to the line of HENRY HOLMES thence north 87 degrees 21’ West 4.70 chains to another corner of DENMAN’s land, thence South 5 degrees 21’ East 11-70 chains to the place beginning containing 5 acres of land being the same property conveyed to WILLIAM MALSBARY deceased by SAML M COSBEY by deed dated July 30th 1851 Recorded in Deed Book 169 page 295 Ham Co. Ohio Records of deeds.

I do authorize and empower my executor to sell the above described real estate on such terms of credit as may seem to him to be best, and to give to the purchaser a deed for the same.  Out of the proceeds of the said sail of said above described premises I will and direct that all liens on said real estate be paid, that all debts of the estate be paid, and that the remainder of the proceeds after the payment of liens and debts if any be divided between my beloved husband THOMAS ELMER AIKEN and my mother ELLEN COSBEY.  My husband THOMAS ELMER AIKEN to have one-third of said proceeds and my mother ELLEN COSBEY two thirds.

                                                               Item Fifth
All personal property not otherwise herein bequeathed and devised I give one-third to my husband THOMAS ELMER AIKEN and two thirds to my mother ELLEN COSBEY.

                                                              Item Sixth
I do hereby appoint THOMAS ELMER AIKEN sole executor of this will and direct that he shall not be required to give bond on qualifying as such executor.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 14th day of February one thousand eight hundred and ninety nine.   Signed EMMA AIKEN

Signed and declared and acknowledged by the above named Emma Aiken as her last will
and testament in presence of us how in her presence and in the presence of each other and at her request have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses
                                                                                A. F. Agnew
                                                                                Eugene Pierson

The State of Ohio, Hamilton County}ss.
Hamilton Probate Court                      To Thomas Elmer Aiken Esq., of Hamilton County, Greeting:
We command that you notify
THOMAS COSBEY, Rossmoyne, O.
FRANK COSBEY, Rossmoyne, O.
ALVIN L. COSBEY, Rossmoyne, O.
LOLA M. SCHENCK, Rossmoyne, O.
MRS. S. E. COSBEY, Rossmoyne, O.

that a paper writing, purporting to be the Last Will and Testament of Emma Aiken late of said County, deceased, has been filed in the office of the Probate Court of said County; and that the same will be offered for probate and record before the Judge of the Probate Court, at the Court House in Cincinnati, in said County, on the 20 day of Sept. A.D. 1899, at 9 o’clock A.M.  In Witness Whereof, I Howard Ferris, Judge of the said Court, have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court, at Cincinnati, this 14th day of Sept A.D. 1899.
                                         Howard Ferris Probate Judge and Ex-officio Clerk
                                         By Chas. E. James, Deputy Clerk