Matthew Bland Estate

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I have several probate documents from the estate of Matthew M. Bland of Platte County, Missouri. I was not able to locate these documents in the digitized probate records for Platte County on the Family Search site. I did locate several court entries regarding the estate.

Missouri Probate Records, 1750-1998
Platte County
Probate Court records, 1879-1881, Vol. Q

Bland MM decd 42, 48,51, 315, 378 (or 518)

page 42 (image 53)

July Term 1879

Thursday August 2 1879
Court met pursuant to adjournment
at 10 Oclock a.M.
Present
W P Childs Judge

In the Matter of the last
Will and Testament of Matthew M Bland
This day came _ Beard and
produced to the court an Instrument of writing
purporting to be the last will and testament of Matthew M Bland
of Platte County, Missouri – Thereupon came Alvery A. Nower
and Wesley B Cook two of the subscribing witnesses to said
instrument, who deposed in and form of Law as to the execution
of the same, and the Court having heard this testimony and
having examined said instrument adjudged that the same
is the last will and testament of Matthew M Bland who
departed this life in Platte County Missouri after the
xecution and publication thereof wherefore it is ordered
that said instrument of writing be admitted to Probate and
recorded as the last will and testament of said Matthew
M Bland deceased.

page 48 (image 57)
Wednesday August 27, 1879

In the estate of M M Bland
This day came Mary Bland widow of M M Bland decd
and on her motion she is appointed adminsitratrix witht he Bill
annexed of said decedent whereupon she took the oath required
by law and tendered Bond in the same of $1000.00 with H C
Turner & Jas Norris as securities which bond was accepted and
ordered to be filed and recorded and thereupon Letters of
administration with the will annexed were issued to said
Mary Bland on the estate of said decedant and W H Ramsey
& R Missig were appointed witnesses to aid her

Ordered that Court be adjourned until Friday the 29 Int at 10
O’clock AM
W P Childs Judge

page 51 (image 58)
July Term 1879

In the estate of M M Bland deceased
This day came Mary Bland Administratrix
with the will annexed of the Estate of decedent and produced
to the Court an Inventory of said estate which was ordered
to be filed and recorded
Said administratrix also produced to the Court an
appraisement of decedents personal estate which was also
ordered to be filed and recorded in Book of appraisements
C

page 315 (Image 197)

Saturday May 1 1880

In the Estate of
Martin Bland Decd

This day came Mary Bland admrx
of the Estate of decedent and submitted her petition asking
that she be authorised to sell at public or private sale personal
property of decedent for payment of debts and said Petition
being by the Court examined and heart It is ordered that
said Administratrix do sell at either public or private sale as she
may consider best for the interest of said estate such of the
personal property of decedants as she may think proper
and that in said sale whither public or private that she comply
with the requirements of law n such cases and she make
written report of her proceeding to this court as soon as said
personal estate disposed of

page 378 (image 231)

July Term 1880
In the Estate of M M Bland Decd
This day cam Mary Bland and produced to
the Court a notice to creditors of the [gr] [mt] of
Letters to [him] on decedents estate and proof othe publication
thereof which was ordered to be filed and recorded on Book
Notices [c] Vol 1
Said Mary Bland also submitted to the Court a
first Settlement of her accounts as adminstratrix
of decedents estate which was examined by the Court
and was ordered to be filed and recorded in
Settlement Record No 2

Missouri Probate Records, 1750-1998, M M Bland, 1879; Platte County, Vol. Q, pages 42, 48, 51, 315 and 378; database with images, FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org : viewed online 18 December 2023).

Book 2 of the settlements contains details about the disbursement of the funds from the estate.

Missouri Probate Records, 1750-1998
Platte County
Settlements, 1878-1883, Vol. 2

Bland MM 253, 384

page 253 (image 166)

Estate of M M Bland Deceased
First Annual Settlement of MRs Mary Bland Admx of the Estate of
M M Bland Decd Same charges herself
with appraisement $1000.00
[Center Cr]
Paid Jocquemin & Shankner no 1 $95.32
paid A C Bell no 2 $27.25
paid Taxes 1879 no 3 $47.54
paid D Bonefount no 4 $28.xx
paid Unmessig appraiser no 5 $1.xx
Paid Howad Saml Notice no 6 $ 4.xx
Paid Margaret McDaniel note no 7 $103.00
Paid Anton Schmidt Coffin no 8 $ 30.00
Paid Hung Rainey appr no 9 $ 1.00
Paid Road Tax 1879 no 10 $ 1.67
Paid J Baker no 11 $ 4.10
Paid AC Noll No 12 $ 8.75
Paid Jas Dye no 13 $10.00
Paid Whitig & How no 14 $15.80
Paid Noll & Mossman no 15 $18.50
Paid Probate fees 417.40
Total $412.73
1880
Aug 27 To Balance due estate $587.27

Page 384 (image 234)

Estate of M M Bland deceased

Final Settlement of Mrs. Mary Bland Admrx of Estate
of M M Bland Deceased

Balance on hand at 1st Settlement in stock $587.27

Pd E P Green for tomb stones for M M Bland 1 20.00
“ “ “ for Tomb Hattie Bland 2 5.00
“ “ Tomb Stones for Benj Bland 3 10.00
Pd Taxes for 1880 42.91
PD J W Coburn aqtty 5 25.00
Pd Jerry Newsby for Seawn of CoCt 8.00
Notice Final Settlement 6 4.00
Probate Fees 4.25
Tec Legatee 7 468.11 587.27

Missouri Probate Records, 1750-1998, Estate of M M Bland, 1880; Platte County, Missouri, Vol. 2, page 253, 384; database with images, FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org : viewed online 18 December 2023).

The loose papers are some of the documents referenced in the court proceedings. The first is the “Proof of Will.”

Platte County, Missouri
Probate Court

Proof of will
State of Missouri
County of Platte
Probate COurt

Be it remembered, tat on this 21 day of August
A.D. 1879 before me W P Chiles Judge
of the Probate Court, held in and for the County and State
aforesaid, personally appeared Alvah A [Nower] & Wesley Bl Cook
who are subscribing witnesses to the annexed Will of
Matthew M Bland deceased, and being by me first duly
sworn, depose and say that the said Matthew M Bland
the testator subscribed the same in their presence, and published and declared said will or instrument of
writing to be his last will and testament, and that at the time of signing the same, he the said testator
was of sound and disposing mind, and more than twenty-one years of age, and that said deponents attested said
will as witnesses thereto, bu subscribing their names to the same in the presence of the testator and or each
other, and at the request of said testator.
A. A. Nower
W. B. Cook

Sworn to and subscribed before me,
W. P. Chiles Judge
of eh Probate Court
this 21 day of August
A.D 1879
W P Chiles Judge
of Probate Court

page 2
Certificate of Probate
State of Missouri
County of Platte
In the Probate
Court of Platte COunty
Missouri

I W P Chiles Judge
of the Probate Court held in and for
Platte County, Missouri, having examined the foregoing instrument,
purporting to be * the last will and testament of
Matthew M Bland deceased, and signed by said
Matthew M Bland deceased, lat of
Platte County Missouri and having heard
the testimony of Alvey A Nower
and Wesley B Cook

page 3
I Mathew M Bland of Platte County
State of Missouri, being in delicate health
and knowing the uncertainty of life yet of
sound and reflecting mind, make this
my last will and testament, first
I will to my dearly beloved wife all my seal
and personal estate after paying all my
just debts and funeral expences to controll
and manage as she may best think fit during
during her natural life, but in case she should
marry she is to endorsed with her legal rights
then it is my will at death or marriage of my
wife that my real and personal estate be
equally divided between my seven children
To wit Mary Baker, Ann B[eimer] WIlliam John
Margret M Eller Jane and Robert L and
it is my will that there should be no adminisra[tion]
on my estate if my said wife and children
can either it without [so?] given under
my hand this 27 day of June one thousan
eight hundred and seventy one
M M bland (seal)
Signed Sealed Published and declared by the
above Mathew M Bland as and for his last will
& testament in the presents of us who at his
request and in his present shave subscribed our
names as witness thereto
Wesley B. Cook (Seal)
Alvery A Nower (seal)

Probate Record (loose papers), Platte County, Missouri, Probate Court, Platte City, Missouri.

The second loose paper is the Exeutor’s Bond.

Platte County, Missouri
Probate Records

Bond and Oath
of Mary Bland
administrator, with will annexed
Of last Will and testament of
MM Bland dec’d
Filed for record this 27
day of August 1879
W P Chiles ex off clk
Record Book E page 152

State of Missouri
County of Platte
I, W P Chiles ex officio clerk of the Probate
Court held in and for Platte County, do hereby
certify that the within Bond and Oath were filed in my office on the 27 day of
August A.D., 1879 and the same are duly recorded in Book E
for recording Executors Bonds &c at page 152
Witness my hand and the seal of our said Court. Done at my office
in Platte City in said county, this 27
day of August A.D. 1879
W P Chiles
Ex off Clk

Executor’s Bond
Bond of Administrator with will Annexed
We, Mary Bland as Principal,
and H C Tuner
and James Norris as Securities, are held and firmly bound unto the
State of Missouri, in the sum of one thousand (1000.)
Dollars, for the payment of which we do hereby bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators
firmly by these presents.
Sealed with our seals and dated at Weston in the State aforesaid,
this 27th day of August, A.D. 1879
This condition of the above bond is that if the said Mary Bland
as administratrix with the will (annexed)
of the Last will and testament of Matthew M Bland
deceased, late of Platte County, Missouri, shall well and faithfully execute the
said Last Will and testament, and shall make true and faithful inventories, returns and settlements of
accounts of the estate of the said Testator, according to law; and shall, moreover, do and perform all
other matters and things touching the execution of hte said Last Will and Testament, as are or shall be
prescribed by law, or enjoined on her by the order, sentence or decree of any Court having
competent jurisdiction, then this obligation to be void and of no effect, otherwise to remain in full force.
Mary Bland (seal)
H C Tuner (seal
James Norris (seal)
Recorded this 27 day of August AD 1879
in Book E at page 152
W P Chiles ex off Clk

Oath
State of Missouri
County of Platte
The undersigned Mary Bland
Administratrix with the will annexed
of the Last Will and Testament of Matthew M bland deceased, late
of Platte County, Missouri, personally appeared before me, the Judge
of he Probate Court, held in and for
the County of Platte and State of Missouri, and being duly
sworn by me, upon oath says that she will make a true and perfect inventory of all and singular
the goods and chattels, lands and tenements, rights and credits of the said Testator, according to law,
and will well and truly execute or administer the Last Will and Testament of the said Testor, by
paying, first his debts, and then the legacies contained in said Last Will and Testament, as far as the
assets of the said Testator will extend, and the law direct; render just accounts, and faithfully perform
all things required by law touching such Administration
Mary Bland
Sworn to and subscribed before me, at Platte
City this 27 day
of August A.D. 1879
W P Chiles
Judg Prob Court

Probate Record (loose papers), Platte County, Missouri, Probate Court, Platte City, Missouri.

The last loose probate paper in my files, is a copy of the petition to sell some of the personal property to pay the debts.

Platte County, Missouri
Probate Court

Petition for
Private Sale of
Personal Property
From
Mary Bland admx
Estate of
M Bland decd
Filed May 3 1880
& order Sale

In the Probate Court of
Platte County Mo
Mrs Bland Adm &
with the will annexed of M M
Bland dec’d & under said
will having a life estate & the
control & management of thie
real & personal property of said
decedent states that there are
debts due by said estate & no
mony a hand for their pay
ment. Also that the real & personal
estate is unproductive & of
great expence to said devizer
[?} life {The] the [?] prays
an order directing her to sell
at public or private sale the
personal property & to apply
the proceeds tot he payment
of said debts & for her supp at
& for the [clearing] & [?]
said loads.
Mrs. Mary Bland
by J w Coburn
Atty

Probate Record (loose papers), Platte County, Missouri, Probate Court, Platte City, Missouri.