Amanuensis Monday -- 1910 Will of John Wright Seaver (1855-1911) of Cuyahoga County, Ohio

 This week's document for transcription is the 1910 will of John Wright Seaver (1855-1911) in the Cuyahoga County, Ohio probate case files.

*  Cuyahoga County, Ohio Probate Court Records, Probate Case Files, Case 55108, 1911, image 247 of 479:

The transcription of this document is:

                                 Norfolk Road,
                                             Euclid Heights, Ohio.
                                                              December 19th, 1910.

I, John Wright Seaver, of Euclid Heights, Ohio,

do make and declare this to be my last will and testament,

hereby revoking and cancelling any previous wills I 

have made.

I give and bequeath to my beloved wife, Mary 

Tassy Patterson Seaver, all of my property, both real and

personal, of any kind of description, which I may have or

be possessed of, or have any interest in, and I nominate

and appoint my wife, Mary Tassy Patterson Seaver, the sole

Executrix of this, my last will and testament, to serve 

without bonds or other security, hereby expressly waiving

any statutory limitations or requirements now enacted by

the State of Ohio, as to the investment of my property,

and the execution of the duties of the Administrator of

my estate.

In witness hereof, I hereby set my hand at

Cleveland, Ohio, on this twentieth day of December, 1910.

                                                       /s/ John Wright Seaver

The foregoing instrument was at the date there-

of signed, published and declared by said John W. Seaver, to

be his last will and testament in our presence and in the

presence of each other, we sign our names as attesting

witnesses.

J. E. A. Moore  Resides at Cleveland O.

Robt P. Greenleaf  Resides at East Cleveland, O.

The source citation for this will is:

Ohio County, District and Probate Courts, Cuyahoga County > "Estate Files, Docket 92,  Case No. 55093-55125, 1911," Case 55108, John W. Seaver estate file (45 images), images 235 to 289 of 479,  will written 1910, proved 1911, estate closed 1913; "Ohio, U.S., Wills and Probates, 1786-1998," indexed records with digital images, Ancestry.com   (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 24 December 2023); Original data is from Ohio County, District and Probate Courts filmed by FamilySearch.

This probate packet names the four minor children of John Wright and Mary Tassey (Patterson) Seaver.  Mary Tassey (Patterson) Seaver was approved as executrix of the estate, which was insolvent.  The estate file has many requests to transfer the testator's property to the executrix. The estate included significant property - company stock of the Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Company located in Cleveland, Ohio, letter patents, other stocks, and bank accounts. There is also correspondence with the companies and the banks.  The executrix submitted several accounts during the time of the estate action.

John Wright Seaver (1855-1911) was born on 8 January 1855 in Madison, Wisconsin, the son of Daniel McCleary and Charlotte Ann (Bennett) Seaver.  John died on 14 January 1911 in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.  He married, on 17 March 1891 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, to Mary Tassey Patterson (1866-1949).  They had four children:

*  John Tassey Seaver (1892-1940), married 1938 Mary Josephine Offutt (1903-1980).

*  Charlotte DeBeaumont Seaver (1895-1978), married 1920 Raymond Turner Kelsey (1892-1949).

*  Hugh Davis Seaver (1896-1959), married 1930 Elizabeth Lee Andersen (1906-1977).

*  William Patterson Seaver (1901-1912).

I am a 7th cousin 3 times removed to John Wright Seaver (1855-1911), with the common Seaver ancestor being my 9th great-grandfather Robert Seaver (1608-1683).

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NOTE: Genea-blogger John Newmark (who writes the excellent TransylvanianDutch blog) started a Monday blog theme years ago called "Amanuensis Monday." John offers this definition for "amanuensis:"

"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."

Read other transcriptions of records of my ancestors at Amanuensis Monday Posts.

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