BOOK C: Page 317
In the name of GOD, Amen. I, Anna B. Grossback of the City of Philadelphia…being in sound and disposing mind and memory…do make and publish this my last will and testament…to my brother, R.Benoit Grossback…in witness whereof I make direct and hereunto set my hand and seal the 26th February 1881…
Signed, Anna B. Grossback. Signed, sealed, published and declared to be the last will and testament, witnessed by Charles J. Junkins, George W. Roberts.
It is now considered and adjudged and decreed that said paper writing..is a true copy of the said will of Anna B. Grosback, deceased .. be allowed, filed and recorded, signed J.L. Cathey, CSC, 18 November 1894.
BOOK D: Page 287
In the name of GOD, Amen.
I, Anna B. Groesbeck of the city of Philadelphia being of sound and disposing mind and memory do make publish and declare this as my last will and testament….unto my brother, Benvisit Groesbeck … to my brother as listed and Edward Shippen, Esq. …to Genevieve Groesbeck of Cincinnati … to my friend, Miss Alice Carey of Philadelphia.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty-sixth day of February A.D. 1881
Signed Anna B. Groesbeck.
Signed sealed and published and declared by the above named testatrix to be her last will and testament Charles J. Jenkins and Geo. M. Roberts.
…will allowed and recorded in the book of Wills of Buncombe Co., NC, J. L. Cathey, CSC
Proved and witness my hand and the seal of said Court this the 4th day of May 1899, Marcus Erwin, CSC