March 1st 1875 - This is My Will - This is to show My desire of distributing of My Afects after my death First I permit both of us to be buried deacent, the next I want all my Just debts paid, the next I want A deacent stones put up to show where we lie if I die before my wife. 3 - procede - line betwene the lots. 4. Mary Riley, my wife, is to have twelve hundred dollars which is to be put on intres for to keep her and if the intrest is not Sufficent to suport hir deacent and comfertable the must take of the principal to keep hir deacent as long as she lives. 5. Mary my wife, is to keep all of the furniture that she thinks that she may nead for hir benifit and comfert during hir life. 6. the children is all to stand a I have placed them in what I call ther outfit, except what will be menchened hearafter. 7. Adaline Lucinda Gearhart is to hve my arm chair. 8. Isadore Manda Nunemaker is to hve the green rockin chair. 9. Alla Eliza Butt to have the settee. 10. Lucretia Virginia Shully to have the split latern rocin chair. 11. Mary Riley to have the use of the above articulars as long as she will keep hous for hirself and if she wount keep house then each gets ther articular. 12. Daniel B. Riley gets the sadel and bridel. 13. when Mary my wife, dont see proper to keep house, she wount want much of the furniture. you had beter to divide the things amongst yourselfs and make no sale - Daniel B. Riley has got the _________ above. 14. the old house is to be sold as soon as you get A menchen for it and if ther is anny Money after the above is complyed with it is to be divided eaquill among the several children dont quarl for the few dollars. 15. and after my wifes death the brick house is to be Sold and the Money to be divided eaquill as the other. 16. I apoint Paxton Henry Riley and John Nunemaker for to be my trustees given under my hand March the first eighteen hundred and Seventy-five.
Personally came before me Samuel B. Harner, Register for the Probate of Wills and Granting Letters of Administration, in and for the County aforesaid, Peter Kready & Josephine Sanders the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing Will, who being duly sworn according to Law, to say that they were present, and saw and heard Barnabas Riley the testator within named, sign, seal, publish, pronounce and declare the foregoing instrument of writing as and for his last will and testament, and at the time of so doing he was of sound ming, memory and understanding to the best of their knowledge and belief, and that they signed it as witnesses at his request and in his presence and in the presence of each other at the same time - and that John Nunemaker one of the Executors named therein is dead.
Whereas Letters Testamentary were this day Granted in due form of law, unto Paxton H. Riley the surviving Executor named in the foregoing Will - A true and perfect Inventory to be exhibited into the Register's Office on or before the 18 day of Jany. next - And an account of reckoning on or befor the 18th day of Decr. A.D. 1881. Witness my hand at Gettysburg, this 18th day of December, A.D. 1880.