Widow’s Deed

Have you ever tried to locate deeds for a second wife after her husband’s death? I have to admit that I’ve never done a specific search for such a deed. However, when I searched the Warren County, Indiana deed indexes for Foster, I found a deed involving Juliet Foster, second wife of Zebulon Foster and Zebulon’s children.

Not only does this deed identify the children but also provides names for the daughter’s husbands and the location for each child in 1889.

Warren County Indiana
Deed records, 1827-1901

Deed records, v. 43-45, 1889-1893
Film 1977704 DGS 8071891

Vol. 43 page 37
This Indenture witnesseth that Juliet Foster (unmarried)
of Warren County in the State of Indiana conveys and
warrants to Edward Foster of Vermillion County Illinois
Rachel Crider of Iroquois County Illinois Hattie Fleming
of Iroquois County Illinois May Crawford of Ford County
Kansas Eliza Bell and William Foster in Warren County
in the State of Indiana for the sum of twelve hundred
Dollars the following Real Estate in Warren county in the
State of Indiana to wit: All the title claim & interest of the
said Juliet Foster as the widow of Zebulon Foster deceased
late of said County in & to the Northeast quarter of section
ten (10) and that portion of the west half of the southeast
quarter of said section lying north & east of the Illinois
Central RailRoad and all being situated in Township
Twenty one (21) North Range Nine (9) west in said county
In Witness where of the said Juliet Foster unmarried has
hereunto set her hand and seal this 15th day of October AD
1889
Juliet Foster (seal)
The State of Indiana Warren County SS
Before me William P Rhodes a Notary Public in and for
said county this 15th day of Oct AD 1889 personally
appeared Juliet Foster (unmarried) and acknowledged
the execution of the annexed deed.

page 38
Witness my hand and Notorial Seal
William P Rhodes (LS)
1 P.M. Recorded Oct 15 1889
Jno C Stephens Recorder Warren Co Ind

Indiana, Warren. Deed Records, 1827-1901. Film #1977704 DGS 8071891. Juliet Foster, 15 Oct 1889 Vol. 43: page 37; digitized images, Family Search http://www.familysearch.org : viewed online 16 May 2022.