The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-06-04
JOHN DEERE'S LAST.
His Final Will and Testament Record.
ed--His Wishes Regarding Dis
posal Of Property.


John Deere, the great pillow maker Of Mo-
line, was probated in the county clerks
Office at o'clock this afternoon. The
document, characteristic OF the man who
drew it, is simple in form and expresses
the wishes of the deceased as to the dis
posal of bis immense effects as follows:
To Lusena Deere, widow, homestead
during life, fifteen shares bank stock,
Eve shares Deere & Co. stock, seven
shares street railway stock. $4,000 and
furniture, etc. In codicil to the will,
$4,000 in money and fifteen shares
Deere & Co.
One thousand dollars for purch ase of
silver tea set for Charles FL. Deere and
wife.
Jeanette Chapman, Emma Velie. Alice
Csdy and Ella Weber, certain real es-
tate and sixty two shares bank stock
fifty-five shares Deere & Co., eighty
shares Moline Water Power Co., eigt teen
shares Moline and Rock Island street
railway stock. In codcil 1866 shares 10
Deere & Co stock.
The residue outside of the bonds and
stocks is to be divided among the chill
dren. There are four codicils to the will.
The witnesses are John s. Gilmore and
j. r. Browning; j. NJ. Gould. H. A.
Ainsworth and W. T. Ball are executors
The personal property is 100000. The
full value of the estate cannot be estima-
ted by the will The executors gave
bonds In the sum of $500, 900.
MR. DIMocK's WILL.
The last will and testament Of the late
Dewitt C. Dimock, of Moline, was filed
for record with County Clerk Donaldson
this morning The instrument first spec
lies that TO Mrs NJ. II. Dimock, wife of
the deceased, aud her sister, Cornelia E.
Hubbard. or either of them, as the case
may be, Jointly or singly, shall have the
free use and control and benefit of the
homestead and other buildings on lots 8,
4, 8 and 8. in Woods second addition to
Moline. The above named TO have and
to hold aud enjoy the same during their
naturil lives, or the life of either and at
the decease of said wife and sister, the
aforesaid property shall in the language
OF the will. Ego 10 my daughter Florence
Z. Sleight, should she still survive, and
in the event of Der being deceased, then
the proceeds of said property to be divi-
ded equally among Rebeccs L. Seight,
adopted daughter of E. H. and Florence
Z. Sleight, Robert Dewitt Baker and
Jennie E. Baker, son and daughter of my
sister, Jane E. Baker, and Anna Dimock,
daughter of my youngest brother, ADDISON
D. Dimock."
All the personal property and effects,
are willed to the widow, as are two hun.
dred shares of the capital stock of Dimock
Gould d Co. and fifty shares of the cap
ital stock of the First National bank OIL
Moline. One hundred shares of the
capital stock of Dimock, Gould s. Co
and ten of the FRS. National bank are be
queathed to Miss Cornelia E. Hubbard
The daughter, Florence E. Sleight, il
given one hundred and fifty shares of tht
capital stock of Dimock, Gould & Co.
and twenty of the capital stock of the
First National bank of Moline,
The will is drawn on the Goth of Sep
TENDER 1885. and is witnessed by F. w.
Gould, and E. Il. Sleight. A codical ap
pended May 18th, 1886, makes E. N.
Sleisht administrator. The property
embraces $50, 900 in personal property IN
dependent, of real estate.