Person:Jeniah Sutton (1)

Research notes

• Family tradition states that Jeniah's father died abt 1778 in Monmouth, NJ. His mother remarried a Monroe and was known as "Granny Monroe". Proof needed.

1. ↑ Will Transcript of Jeniah Sutton, in Indiana, Wills and Probate Records, 1798-1999 [database on-line].

   Name: Jeniah Sutton
   Probate Date: 3 Apr 1867
   Probate Place: Kosciusko, Indiana, USA
   Inferred Death Year: Abt 1867
   Inferred Death Place: Indiana, USA
   Item Description: Will Records, Vol 2, 1870-1875; Will Records, Vol 3, 1875-1886; Will Records, Vol 4, 1886-1890
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   Last Will and Testament of Jeniah Sutton, Deceased.
   In the name of the Benevolent Father of all,
   I Jeniah Sutton of Kosciusko County and STate of Indiana do make and publish this my last will and testament.
   
   Item 1st I give to my daughter [in law] Isabel Sutton, one hundred and fifty dollars to be paid out of my Real Estate when cold.
   
   Item 2nd I give and deliver to my four other children John Sutton, William G. Sutton, Daniel Sutton and Elizabeth Sutton, the balance of all my property, person and Real Estate to be sold and dually divided except one horse and cupboard I have already disposed of.
   
   I do hereby nominate and appoint James Morris, Executor of this my last will and testament hereby authorizing and empowering him as my executor to settle all my business.
   
   I do hereby revoke all former wills by me made in testimony hereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this the 3rd day of April 1867.
   Jeniah Sutton {Seal}
   
   Signed and acknowledged by said Jeniah Sutton, as his last will and testament in our presence and signed by us in his presence,
   James Morris
   V.D. Campbell
   
   State of Indiana
   Kosciusko County
   Be it remembered that on the 9th day of December 1870, James Morris, one of the subscribing witnesses to the within and foregoing last will and testament of Jeniah Sutton, late of said County, deceased, personally appeared before Reuben Williams, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Kosciusko County in the State of Indiana and being duly sworn by the Clerk of said Court upon his oath declared and testified as follows that is to say That on the 3d day of April 1867 he saw the said Jeniah Sutton d??? the said instrument in writing to be his last will and Testament and that the said Jeniah Sutton with his consent attested and subscribed by the said James Morris and Vincent D. Campbell, in the presence of said Testater, and in the presence of each other as subscribing witnesses thusto, and that the said Jeniah Sutton was at the time of the signing and subscribing of the said instrument in writing and aforesaid of full age (that is more than twenty one years of age) and of sound and disposing mind and memory and not under any coercion or restraint as the said deponent verily believes: and further deponent says not.
   James Morris
   
   Sworn to and subscribed by the said James Morris before me Reuben Williams, Clerk of said Court at Warsaw the 9th day of December 1870. In attestation whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court.
   Reuben Williams, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas Kosciusko Co.
   By Thomas Woods, Deputy. ...

2. ↑ TOWERING ELM IS MONUMENT TO PIONEERS AFTER WHOM SUTTON HILL WAS NAMED IN EARLY DAYS, in Huntington Herald (Huntington, Indiana)
   15 Sep 1928.

   ... I learned from the Sutton sisters that their great-grandfather for a while prior to his death lived with the William G. Sutton family at the Sutton Hill. He died there in 1870 at the age of ninety-five. His body was taken to Kosciusko County for burial. ...