WILL OF MARY CARUTHERS ELDER,
June 3, 1824, Conemaugh Township, Indiana County, PA
Probated: June 13, 1825

In the name of God Amen.  I Mary ELDER of Conemaugh Township Indiana County and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, being weak in body but of sound and disposing mind and memory considering the frailty of life and certainty of death and being desirous of settling my earthly concerns and disposing of such worldly goods as God has blessed me with, Do make and constitute this my last Will and Testament in Manner and Form Following VIZ,
  First I will and bequeath to my sons THOMAS ELDER and JAMES ELDER each the sum of Fifty Dollars, to my Daughter ISABELLA THOMPSON Forty Dollars, to my Daughter ELIZABETH McCUTCHEN I will and bequeath Fifty Dollars, together with all my wearing aparrell my bed and bedding.
   I will and bequeath to my Grandson JOSEPH ELDER son of JAMES ELDER the sum of Fifty Dollars, to be kept at Interest for him from my Death until he arrive at the age of twenty one years.  Also I will and bequeath to my Grandson JOSEPH McCUTCHEN son of my daughter ELIZABETH the sum of fifty Dollars to be kept at Interest for him until he arrive at the age of twenty one years.
  I will and bequeath to my son ROBERT ELDER the sum of One Dollar.
  All the Rest Residue or Remainder of my estate if any after paying the above stated legacies and all necessary expenses, is to be equally divided between my sons THOMAS and JAMES and I do hereby constitute and appoint my two sons THOMAS ELDER and JAMES ELDER Executors of this my last Will and Testament. In witness thereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the third day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.
MARY ELDER
 Witnesses: David Lewis, John Douglass

 Indiana County.
Be it remembered that on the thirteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five personally appeared before me Alexander Taylor Register for the probate of Wills and granting letters of Administration in and for the county of Indiana John Douglass Esquire one of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing instrument of writing, and being duly sworn deposes and says that he was personally present and did see MARY ELDER the testatrix set her hand to the foregoing instrument and heard her acknowledge it as and for her last will and testament and at the same time he believed her to be of sound and disposing mind memory and understanding and that the names thereto subscribed as witnesses to wit David Lewis and John Douglass are of their own proper hand writing.  Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before John Douglass, A. Taylor Register.