A transcription of the Last Will & Testament of Edmund Shirley, as
recorded in the Boone County, IN courthouse (Book H1, Page 77):

	      Last Will and Testament of Edmund Shirley

I, Edmund Shirley, of Boone county, in the State of Indiana, do hereby
make and publish this my last will and testament, hereby rovoking and
making void all former wills by me at any time made heretofore.
Fir[st, ] that my daughter Avarina Amanda Malvina have all the
household and Kitchen furniture which I am possessed of at my death.
Also, that said daughter [have] possession of of all my Real Estate
for one year from the first of the next March after my decease, free
of rent.  Also, that all my other personal property not heretofore
herein named shall be sold by my executors at my decease, and the
money equally divided among my children, viz:  Presley, Embly P.,
Daniel, William Miletus, Doctor J, Bartlett, James S. and my daughter
A. A. M. Swagert.  Also, that all Real Estate of which I am possessed
at my decease shall be sold by my Executors, (after the time aforesaid
which my daughter, aforsaid is to have the use of it.) and the money
equally divided amon[g] my children before named.  And I hereby make
and ordain my sons Daniel and William Shirley my executors of this my
last will and testame[nt.]  In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand
and seal this 17th day of Septe[m]ber, 1886 (Sig)

Signed, sealed and published (in.) presence of 
Joseph Hellon and H. Sapham

State of Indiana, Boone County, I, [long blank space], Personally
appeared before the Clerk of the Court of C[om]mon Pleas Court within
and for the said country and State, Hamilton Sap[ham,] one of the
subscribing witnesses to the last will and testament of Edmund
Shirley, late of said county deceased, now (duly) filed for probate,
and being duly sworn on his oath says that the said Edmund Shirley
died on the [??] day of January, 1860, at said county, That said
deceased was at the t[ime] of the execution of said last will and
testament of sound mind and me[m]ory, and of lawful age to devise his
property, and that he executed the same of his own free will and
accord, and without any coercion or restraint wh[at]ever.  And the
said affiant further states that he saw the said testator Edmund
Shirley, deceased, in his lifetime, sign his name to the foregoing
will and heard him acknowledge the same to be his act and deed for the
purposes therein specified: and that this affiant and Joseph Hellon,
subscribed their names to said last will and testament as attesting
witnesses thereto in the presence of said testator and in the
presences of each other, this 4th day of Febrary, 1860, [space]
H. Sapham, [space] Subscribed and sworn to before me this 4th day of
February, 1860
			Henry Shannon, Clerk.
			      By R. C. Kise, Dep

State of Indiana
Boone County
I, Henry Shannon, Clerk of the Court of Common Please of said county,
certify that the within last will of Edmund Shirley, late of Boone
county deceased, has been duly admitted to probate, That its due
execution was this day proven by Hamilton Sapham, one of the
subscribing witnesses thereto, whose proof together with such will
have been by me recorded in the Record of Wills of said Court, No. 1,
pages 77 and 78.

			In witness whereof I have hereinto set my hand
			and affixed the seal of said courtat office in 
			Lebanon, this 4th day of February 1860,

				 Henry Shannon, Clerk
				       By R. C. Kise, Dep.