Reading 1870
In the Name of God, Amen
Since it is decreed that all men once must die and I already gotten old, but I think that I a still in good understanding, and possess my good memory, therefore it is my wish, to make my will concerning my earthly goods in the following manner.
Firstly, after my death I order my soul to Almighty God who had given it to me, and my body to the cold ground from which it was taken. I also wish to be buried in a Christian like manner, beside my brother Jacob.
Secondly, it is my will that my son George L Burkhart shall be my heir, of my property, namely three houses No. 50, No. 48 & No. 46 on Eleventh Street in the City of Reading, at the corner of Washington Street, with the ground belonging thereto 95 feet in depth, besides he shall possess all my loose goods for his use.
Furthermore it is my will if my will if my wife Catharine should live longer than I, that my son George L Burkhart shall take his mother into his home and treat her good until her decease, if he however should treat her badly, or squander his property in a disorderly manner, then my wife Catharine Burkhart hall have the right to overturn this will, and do with all my property as she desires.
Further, it is my will that my son George L Burkhart shall be Executor of my will.
Written and undersigned the Fifteenth Day of March, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy in the presence if these witnesses.
John U Burkhart
Witnesses
John Bolick Daniel Weidner
Translated from the German Original by Warren D Faust
Submitted by Michelle.
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