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Commandeus, Nicholas - will, 1878

Nicholas Commandeus No. 40595 Last will and Testament filed Sept. 2nd 1878 
Ne Varietur New Orleans Sept 2nd 1878 (signed) A.L. Tissot Judge. I Nicholas Commaudeur of Carrollton La declare that to be my last Olographic Testament. I give and bequeath to my dearly beloved wife Mary Malinda Elliott one half of my entire estate having our two children living the issue of our marriage viz: Linda Eugenie- V Marie Therese. I give and bequeath to them our two daughters the  residue of my estate and in the event of my daughter dying before me. I give the entire estate to my said wife. I appoint my said wife Mary Malinda the sole Executor of this my will, with resign and possession of my estate with the right of unified during her single unmarried life. I make the above disposition of my property in view of death for this. That there exists no community of acquets and gains between myself and wife in consequence of our marriage contract passed before J.R. Borgstide Parish Recorder of Jefferson Parish on 29 November 1850 and it is owning as much to my wife’s assistance and judgement, as it is to my energy or foresight, that I am passed of anything. 
Having every confidence in her reassuring affection and devotion, to our offspring and to myself. I leave her this memorial. I implore my loved children to follow her guidance and precepts as the surest safeguards in this world and guarantee to future immortality.
Written dated and signed by myself this seventeenth day of July in the year of our lord eighteen hundred and sixty eight, at my residence in Carrollton Jefferson parish La.
(signed) N. Commandeur Ne Verietur New Orleans Sept 2nd 1878 (signed) A.L. Tissot Judge
“Proof of Will”
Be it remembered that on this second day of September in the year of our lord on thousand eight hundred and seventy eight and the 103rd of the Independence of the United states of America.
Upon the application of Mrs Mary M. Commandeur and pursuant to my decree bearing even date herewith. Before me Aristie L. Tissot Judge of the Second District Court for the Parish of Orleans, personally came and appeared M.M. B.C. Elliot and W.H. Pierce witnesses, who being duly sworn, were by me presented with an instrument of writing, written on two pages of a double sheet of foolscap paper, beginning with the following “ I Nicholas Commandeur of Carrollton La and ending with the following “at my residence in Carrollton Jefferson Parish and purporting to be his Olographic last Will and Testament, which being by me exhibited to the aforesaid witnesses, was by them recognized and declared to be entirely written, dated and signed by the