Record Book of Wills
in the County of Stoddard, Missouri
Book B, p. 65&66

I James Bryant Wookey of the County of Stoddard in the State of Missouri do make and publish this my last will and Testament.
I give bequeath and devise to my beloved wife Polly Matilda Wookey all my personal and real estate of every name nature and Kind both in this country and elsewhere, including all lands or monies due or to become due by right of heirship to any estate in the Kingdom of Great Britain and I do hereby appoint her sole Administratrix of this my last will and Testament hereby revoking all former wills by me made.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 17^th day of July AD 1868.

James Bryant Wookey

Signed and declared by the above named James Bryant Wookey to be his last will and Testament in the presence of us, who at his request and in his presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto
C.B. Crumb, of Bloomfield Missouri
Jacob Like - his mark, of Stoddard County Mo.
Orlando C. Jones of Bloomfield Mo.

State of Missouri, County of Stoddard
In vacation of the county court
Be it remembered that on the fourth day of April AD 1876 personally appeared before the undersigned R.W. Christy Clerk of the county Court of the county and State aforesaid C.B. Crumb and Orlando C. Jones two of the subscribing witnesses to the annexed will of James Bryant Wookey and being by me first duly Sworn, depose and say that the said James Bryant Wookey the testator subscribed the same in their presence and published the Said Will or Instrument of writing as his last will that he the said testator was at the time of Publishing his said Will of Sound mind and more than twenty one years of age and that they the said deponents attested the said Will as witnesses thereto by subscribing their names to the same in the presence of said testator and in the presence of each other and at the request of the said testator.
C.B. Crumb
O.C. Jones

Sworn to and Subscribed before me this fourth day

pg. 66

of April A.D. 1876.
R.W. Christy Clerk
By Stephen Chapman Deputy

State of Missouri, County of Stoddard
In vacation of the county Court
I R.W. Christy Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Stoddard and State of Missouri having examined the annexed instrument of writing purporting to be the last will and Testament of and signed by James Bryant Wookey and having seen heard and taken the testimony of C.B. Crumb and Orlando C. Jones subscribing witnesses thereto in relation to the execution of the same, do declare and adjudge said Instrument to be the last Will and Testament of the said James Bryant Wookey deceased, late of Stoddard county, Missouri.
In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of our said County Court at office in Bloomfield this fourth day of April A.D. 1876.
R.W. Christy Clerk
By Stephen Chapman Deputy

Filed April 4^th A.D. 1876 and recorded in Register "B" of last wills and Testaments at pages 65 and 66.
R.W. Christy Clerk
By Stephen Chapman Deputy

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