Samuel was born August 6, 1837 Cecil Co., Maryland and died April 6, 1925 Cecil Co., Maryland. He married Ellen Elizabeth Cowan Taylor.

Maryland, Cecil County Probate Estate Files 1851 -1940
Actual File consists of 18 images

1. Will of Samuel E. Sidwell - (cover page)
   ----Transcribed by Margaret Jobe
   

   Will -

   Samuel E. Sidwell

   Recorded in Liber
   q, No. 24, Fol. 194

   Fd. April - 18th- 1925.

2. Will of Samuel E. Sidwell, page 1

   I Samuel E. Sidwell of the County of Cecil and of the State of Maryland Being of sound Mind and Memory so make , publish and declare this to be my last will and testament to wit: :

   First: All my just debts and funeral Expenses shall be first duly paid

   Second: I devise and bequeathe to my son Fillmore C. Sidwell, all of my Real Estate and personal property including stock, farm Implements shop tools and gasoline Engine and wood saw. This clause includes all of the growing crops at the time of my death:

   Third{ I devise and bequeathe to my daughter Minnie W. Sidwell the sum of One Thousand dollars, and what house hold goods that belonged to her Mother.

   Fourth: I appoint my son and daughter Fillmore C. Sidwell and Minnie W. Sidwell to be Executors of this my last will and testament.

   (Over)

3. Will of Samuel E. Sidwell, page 2

   In Witness whereof I hereonto set my hand and seal this 29th day of August, 1919.

   Samuel E. Sidwell (seal)
   Haines Job (Witness)
   Walter W. Marshall (Witness)

4. Witnesses Statement
   

   Cecil County, SS: April 18th, 1925

   Then came Fillmore C. Sidwell and Minnie W. Sidwell, Executors names in the foregoing instrument of writing, and made oath in due form of law, that the same is the true and whole last Will and Testament of Samuel E. Sidwell late of Cecil County, deceased, that hath come to their knowledge and possession; that due publication of the contents thereof hath been made, and that they knows of none other or any reason why the probate thereof should not be taken.

   Test:

   R. J. McCauley
   REGISTER.

   Cecil County, SS: April 18- 1925

   Then came Haines Job and Walter W. Marshall the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing instrument of writing, and severally made oath in due form of law, that they did see Samuel E. Sidwell the testator therein named, sign and seal the same; that they heard his so doing he was to the best of their apprehension and belief of a sound and disposing mind, memory and understanding; that they severally subscribed they names as witnesses thereto, in the presence, at the request, of said testator and in the presence of each other.

   Test:

   R. J. McCauley,
   Register.

5. Acceptance into Probate

   In the Orphans' Court of Cecil County:

   The Register of Wills after having carefully examined the above last Will and Testament of Samuel C. Sidwell, late of Cecil County, deceased, and also the evidence adduced as to its validity, Orders and Decrees, this 18th day of April, A.D. 1925, that the same be admitted to probate in this court as the true and genuine last Will and Testament of the said Samuel E. Sidwell, deceased.

   R. J. McCauley
   Register of Wills

   Judges of the Orphan's Court.