Will of Hannah Mulvey

Transcribed from the digital image of a typewritten copy found on Ancestry.com's "Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991"  This is not an exact transcription as the lines do not all begin and end the same.  I could not seem to accomplish that with Blogger.
Link  Hannah Mulvey Will






Case 26138.                                Hannah Mulvey.    Will.                                              
 In the name of God, Amen, I Hannah Mulvey, widow of the Town of West Brookfield in the county of Worcester and the State of Massachusetts, being of sound mind and memory and considering the uncertainty of life, do now publish make and declare this my last will and testament. After the payment of my just debts and funeral expenses I give and bequeath as follows: -

To my son, Thomas E. Mulvey my Bible ( family) and $100, now on deposit in the North Brookfield Savings Bank.

To my grandson Willie H. Mulvey a feather bed.

To James H. Mulvey my son the house now occupied by my son John J. Mulvey.

To my neice Teressa Mulvey a feather bed.

To my son John J. Mulvey the homestead consisting of the house where I have lived and the barns adjoining and all my household furnishings.

To my son Kervin Mulvey $100 should he ever return the said $100 to be paid by John J. Mulvey from his share of the estate.

I hereby constitute and appoint my son James H. Mulvey  executor of this my last will and testament.

I hereby revoke all former wills made by me.

    In witness whereof I the before named testator in the presence of three witnesses do hereunto set my hand and seal this 4th day of April in the year of our Lord 1900 .
                                                               her
                                                   Hannah X Mulvey
                                                               mark

On this 4th day of April Mrs Hannah Mulvey of West Brookfield, Mass. Signed the foregoing instrument in our presence, declaring it to be her last will and testament and in witness hereof we do now in her presence and in the presence of each other, and at her request subscribe our names.
                                                              Witnesses               James Malloy         
                                                                                             John G. Shackley
                                                                                              Catherine McCarthy

Probate Records (Worcester County, Massachusetts); Index 1731-1881; Author: Massachusetts. Probate Court (Worcester County); Probate Place: Worcester, Massachusetts

Notes : Probate Records, Vol 553-556, 1899-1900

Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
Original data: Massachusetts County, District and Probate Courts.

Note: Son Kervin was known as Kieran and was said to have lived in Iowa at the time of his mother's death, just ten days after she signed this will.  To my knowledge he never returned to Massachusetts.  The only Teressa Mulvey I know of, was a granddaughter and not her niece.

Tombstone Tuesday - Peter and Hannah Mulvey

This photo was taken in 2009.  I returned to Sacred Heart Cemetery in West Brookfield in September 2010 and found that the columns and the top of the monument were missing.  I do not know the circumstances under which the monument changed.

More information on the family of Peter and Hannah Ford Mulvey is available at http://westbrookfieldgenealogy.org/Genealogy/
The site may be searched without a login.  Anyone interested in copies of family obituaries is urged to click on the Information Request Form tab above, and submit the form with the name Mulvey and your contact information.

John Joseph Mulvey - West Brookfield Fire Chief 1913 - 1916

John Mulvey's July 22, 1868 birth was recorded in West Brookfield Vital Records as John Joseph Mulverhill, son of Peter and Hannah, both born in Ireland. His father, Peter, was a Currier by trade, and a Winter Street property owner, by 1865.

John married Julia McCarthy in North Brookfield on September 13, 1893 and they raised their family of eight children in the family home on Winter St.  John learned the shoe making trade as a young man and later he became a travelling salesman for E. E. Angell Company of Boston. (1900 census lists occupation as provision dealer, 1910 census says travelling salesman - Bank Stamps)  He also worked for the Olmstead Corset company for a time, resigning from his position there in order to return to sales.

Active in the community, Mr. Mulvey was a member of the Quaboag Tribe of Red Men, and the Ancient Order of Hibernians.  He served the town of West Brookfield as chief of the fire department from 1913 until his death.  He was also just a few months into a three year term as selectman, having been elected in the spring of 1915.  John became ill on Christmas day of 1915 and died of pneumonia on January 7, 1916 at the age of 47.   His obituary appeared in the Springfield Daily Republican on Saturday, January 8, 1916 on page 15.